Earlier this fall a MobyLives story reported that the Connecticut attorney general’s office had interviewed indie booksellers as part of an investigation into pricing agreements between publishers and Apple and… Read more »
Whenever I’m tempted to say that something about our contemporary lives is radical or new, I’m reminded of the scene in No Country For Old Men where the retired, crippled… 10 / Read more »
The other day a coworker, studiously engaged in research on the internet, just happened to come across this rather addictive point-and-click flash-based video game inspired by Moby Dick (be prepared… 2 / Read more »
Clinical and Translation Science Network (CTSciNet) reports on the alarming phenomenon of drug companies placing their ghostwritten articles, under the cover of independent medical researchers’ names, in the medical literature.… Read more »
More and more, we find ourselves in awe of the quality, depth and variety of places on the internet talking about books. Thus, we’ve decided to take a year-end look… 2 / Read more »
I’ve recently been having a lot of fun over at Savethewords.org, which is a site dedicated to resurrecting old words and thereby increasing your ‘word power’. It works by clicking… Read more »
According to this post on the Lonely Planet website,”Bookshops are a traveller’s best friend: they provide convenient shelter and diversion in bad weather, they’re a reliable source of maps, notebooks,… Read more »