The Hachette Book Group has hired anti-piracy protection service Attributor to help it monitor the web for illegal use of its content. As Jim Milliot reports in a Publishers Weekly… Read more »
The Frankfurt Booksellers Peace Prize, awarded at the Frankfurt Book Fair every year, has been awarded to Italian author Claudio Magris. According to an Associated Press report, the jury that… Read more »
Melville House author Alejandro Zambra’s novella Bonsai, when first published in Chile, “filled just ninety-four generously spaced pages, and its recent English translation by Carolina De Robertis stretches only to… 2 / Read more »
Time, Inc. can’t become iTunes, and it shouldn’t pretend it could, according to Paul Smalera’s recent critique of Time’s digital strategy. The company recently tasked exec John Squires to put… Read more »
“If The New York Times ever strikes you as an abstruse glut of antediluvian perorations, if the newspaper’s profligacy of neologisms and shibboleths ever set off apoplectic paroxysms in you,… Read more »
Amazon.com has made its name — and destroyed its competition — via relentlessly cutthroat discounting, but yesterday it cut its own throat by accident: As a story by Paul Revoir in… 2 / Read more »