Last week, the Wall Street Journal’s Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg reported on a new Barnes & Noble television commercial created by B&N chairman Leonard Riggio, starring Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett.… Read more »

Screenwriter/producer/director Robert B. Weide has been working on a documentary about Kurt Vonnegut for thirty-three years, and—still lacking the funding the make it happen—he’s turned to Kickstarter to raise the… Read more »

The animated film studio that’s brought us Antz, Shrek, and Kung Fu Panda, among others, has announced that it’s expanding its reach into the world of book publishing. Jeffrey Trachtenberg… Read more »

Just before Thanksgiving, Apple took aim at Michael Bromwich, whom Judge Denise Cote had recently appointed to oversee its compliance with antitrust law relating to its sale of ebooks. According… Read more »

Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling recently announced that she will expand her considerable empire by penning the script for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a feature film based on… Read more »

It has been almost two months since a special January 30th Publishers Weekly alert went out to subscribers announcing “Simon & Schuster, Barnes & Noble in Dispute Over Terms.” While some… Read more »

Documents indicate that two chapters have considerable discrepancies… Read more »

The Wall Street Journal’s Jeffrey Trachtenberg here takes a critical look at Amazon Publishing’s first season with a New York office. The Journal reports that the company’s most high-profile release yet—Penny… Read more »

The aftermath of last week’s capitulation by three of the five major publishers has had at least one solid effect: Barnes & Noble took a 17% hit on its stock.… Read more »