Category: News & Notes

News & Notes – 11/30/14

News & Notes – 11/30/14

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 Shakespeare Folio Discovered in France (New York Times) A previously unknown First Folio has been found in a French public library. A Harry Potter… Read more »

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News & Notes – 11/22/14

News & Notes – 11/22/14

  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 2014 National Book Awards were won by Brown Girl Dreaming (Jacqueline Woodson), Redeployment (Phil Klay), Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and… Read more »

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News & Notes – 11/01/14

News & Notes – 11/01/14

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Today’s News & Notes is very short because of my current workload – sorry!   Book News J. K. Rowling released a “new Harry Potter story”… Read more »

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News & Notes – 10/25/14

News & Notes – 10/25/14

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 Economist Paul Krugman says “Amazon’s Monopsony is Not O.K.” (New York Times) For an opposing view, read Matthew Yglesias’s “Amazon is doing the world… Read more »

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News & Notes – 10/18/14

News & Notes – 10/18/14

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 National Book Award finalists for 2014 were announced this week. (National Book Foundation) Richard Flanagan wins the 2014 Man Booker Prize. You can… Read more »

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News & Notes – 10/11/14

News & Notes – 10/11/14

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 Patrick Modiano wins Nobel Prize for Literature. Read about Modiano and his work at NPR, The Guardian, and The New York Times. Malala Yousafzai… Read more »

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News & Notes – 10/04/14

News & Notes – 10/04/14

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 Author’s Guild Met with DoJ About Amazon. The Guild hopes to get DoJ to examine alleged anticompetitive practices by the e-tailing giant. (Publishers Weekly)… Read more »

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News & Notes – 9/06/14

News & Notes – 9/06/14

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Goodreads has added previews to some of its titles using Amazon’s Kindle Cloud Reader…. Read more »

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News & Notes – 8/02/14

News & Notes – 8/02/14

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: News Corp, HarperCollins Complete Purchase of Harlequin. Harlequin will operate as a subsidiary of… Read more »

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News and Notes – 5/17/14

News and Notes – 5/17/14

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Castulul Bran, Brasov, Romania. (Photo by Florin73m; used under CC-SA 3.0 license) Dracula’s castle… Read more »

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