Category: News & Notes

News & Notes – 7/25/15

News & Notes – 7/25/15

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Publisher plans no future editions of Cosby bio (AP via Washington Post) New Survey Shows eBook Buyers in the UK Outnumber Pirates By Fourteen… Read more »

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News & Notes – 7/18/15

News & Notes – 7/18/15

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Leading authors call for [U.S.] government probe of Amazon’s ‘damaging’ power. (The Guardian) The lawyer, the lockbox, and the lost novel: Harper Lee book… Read more »

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News & Notes – 7/11/15

News & Notes – 7/11/15

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News The first chapter of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman was released on Friday morning. It’s printed in full at both The Wall Street… Read more »

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News & Notes – 7/04/15

News & Notes – 7/04/15

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Apple Loses Appeal; E-Book Decision Is Upheld (Publishers Weekly) The OED adds about 500 new words, including cisgender, jeggings, and twerk. Read about some… Read more »

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News & Notes – 6/27/15

News & Notes – 6/27/15

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News ALA 2015: On a Historic Day, Roberta Kaplan Delivers a Powerful Keynote (Publishers Weekly) Charleston library renamed in honour of church shootings victim Cynthia… Read more »

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News & Notes – 6/06/15

News & Notes – 6/06/15

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Miramax Faces Lawsuit for Mr. Holmes movie. (GalleyCat) The Conan Doyle estate is suing the film company as well as Mitch Cullin (the author… Read more »

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News & Notes – 5/09/15

News & Notes – 5/09/15

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Over 100 stories & letters by Mark Twain uncovered by scholars. They were written while Twain was a journalist in San Francisco. (To clarify,… Read more »

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News & Notes – 5/02/15

News & Notes – 5/02/15

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Harper Lee sets up nonprofit company to keep play about To Kill a Mockingbird running. (Huffington Post) Pres. Obama wants to bring ebooks to… Read more »

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News & Notes – 4/25/14

News & Notes – 4/25/14

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News The 2015 Puliter Prize list is out. All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr) won the fiction prize. The 2015 PEN Literary Awards… Read more »

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News & Notes – 4/18/15

News & Notes – 4/18/15

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News HarperCollins and Amazon have come to an agreement, and the publisher (like several others) will henceforth control prices on its ebooks. So we can… Read more »

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