Two recent articles, one for The New York Times by OR publisher Colin Robinson and one in Monday’s Guardian point to what may soon be a dismal reality in publishing,… Read more »

The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog is reporting that after refusing to get on the digital bandwagon for years, novelist Thomas Pynchon has struck a deal with his publisher,… Read more »

Earlier this week, novelist Charlaine Harris confirmed on Facebook that the next installment in her bestselling Southern Vampire Mysteries series will be the last. The basis for HBO’s hit show… Read more »

The news that former Publishers Weekly editor Sara Nelson was hired by Amazon.com yesterday was another one of those stories that take the wind out of your sails: A beloved… Read more »

Publishers Weekly reported this week that DC Comics will be releasing collections of their New 52 series as books — some hardcover and some paperback — this week. A revamp… Read more »

London, 1 May 2012 — The Alliance of Radical Booksellers has announced that Melville House’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years, by David Graeber was the winner of the 2012 Bread and Roses… Read more »

Last month, Encyclopaedia Britannica announced that its most recent edition, published in 2010, would be the final print edition of the iconic reference books. Now, as part of its move to focus… Read more »

A point of clarification after yesterday’s post about the decision not to award anybody with the Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year: it was the Pulitzer Board that decided not… Read more »

The Pulitzer Prizes were given out on Monday, with awards going to the Philadelphia Inquirer for public service in journalism, The Stranger’s Eli Sanders for feature writing, and the late Manning Marable’s… 1 / Read more »

Are publishers inadvertently reinforcing an imbalance of acceptance given to books written by men compared to those written by women? Author Meg Wolitzer in a New York Times story, asks depressingly… 1 / Read more »