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 BookCon Adds Sci-Fi, Mystery and Thriller Authors to Adult Lineup (Publishers Weekly) Amazon narrows list of potential cities for second headquarters to 20 (NPR)… Read more »
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 Waterstones owner exploring sale, debt refinancing (Shelf Awareness) The British bookshop chain is currently owned by Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut. The Fate of Bookstores… Read more »
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 European Publishers ‘Shocked’ at EU E-Book Lending Ruling (Publishers Weekly) The ruling appears to allow unlimited lending of ebooks by libraries. Tennessee mother calls… Read more »
Worth Reading: “Enough Feisty Princesses: Disney Needs an Introverted Heroine” (Lindsay Lowe, The Atlantic) “Plagiarism and the link: How the web makes attribution easier — and more complicated” (Matthew Ingram, paidContent) “The Used eBook Trojan Horse” (ebookp*rn blog) Books & Ebooks in the News: “Book of Kells now Free to… Read more »
I found quite a collection of interesting blog posts and articles this week, on a whole host of book- and reading-related topics. Last week, Momentum (an Australian subsidiary of Macmillan whose e-books are available in the U.S.) announced it will drop DRM from its e-books. They’ve now published an explanation… Read more »
