Bill Cosby biography is toxic, just like Bill Cosby
Last September, the journalist Mark Whitaker’s biography of Bill Cosby, Cosby: His Life and Times, was published to positive reviews. The New York Times Book Review called the book “wonderfully… Read more »
Hail & Farewell: Paul Bacon, legendary book designer and creator of the “Big Book Look”
The book designer Paul Bacon died last week in Fishkill, NY. He was ninety-one years old. Though Bacon illustrated a number of beautiful jazz album covers, he was better known… Read more »
Obama administration pledges millions in e-books for low-income children
Late last week, President Obama unveiled a new plan to donate e-books to children from low-income families. Cory Turner reports for “All Things Considered” on NPR that he made the… Read more »
Oyster is selling ebooks now. But is it targeting Amazon?
Since launching in the fall of 2013, the ebook subscription app Oyster has set out to create a f”comprehensive e-reading environment.” The company has grown significantly in its eighteen month… Read more »
Michelle Malkin responds to two-and-a-half-year-old conservative meme with a book about “tinkerpreneurs”
Do you remember the “you didn’t build that” meme? If you don’t, I apologize in advance for this depressing trip down memory lane. The year was 2012; the month was… Read more »
A completely real, not at all plagiarized interview with plagiarist Jonah Lehrer
This was a long week, but one full of miracles. Kindhearted megacorporation Amazon bought itself a lovely new domain name that it will use only for good; a day later,… Read more »
My super cynical Simon & Schuster/Amazon contract theory
Amazon is turning Hachette into a gazelle.… Read more »
Wylie: Amazon is an “ISIS-like distribution channel.”
Andrew Wylie is not one to mince words—he isn’t known as “The Jackal” because he’s overly diplomatic after all. Recently, he’s been especially, um, to the point, when it comes… Read more »
Amazon closes a contract with one major book publisher (not that one, though)
Yesterday afternoon, Business Insider’s Jilian D’Onofro reported that Amazon had signed a multi-year contract with Simon & Schuster, a Big 5 publisher that is not Hachette. Information is still trickling out about… Read more »
The DOJ’s messing with publishers again. Is this a power play by Amazon?
At the Wall Street Journal, Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg reports that the U.S. Justice Department “has gone back to the publishers asking about any recent pricing discussions they may have had… Read more »