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Outraged booksellers, other retail groups, respond to Amazon’s “Price Check Day” Booksellers exploded with a mix of rage and inventive countermeasures yesterday in response to Amazon’s announcement that it would pay people $15 to walk out of brick-and-mortar stores and shop… 8 / Read more »
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Have we reached saturation point in literary studies? In the Chronicle Review, Mark Bauerlein writes about the issues involving literary scholarship and the hard road ahead for authors trying to be heard in a field awash with theses.… 6 / Read more »
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“Delusional” St. Martin’s says passages and scenes from 1956 novel that reappeared in Lenore Hart’s new novel are not, er, plagiarised St. Martin’s Press has announced that, despite the fact that much of the language of her book and several concocted scenes first appeared verbatim in someone else’s book, Lenore Hart… 5 / Read more »
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Dickens and the paper trail: What we lose when editing is electronic It’s a Christmas miracle: Cambridge University Press is allowing us to see what the original manuscript of Great Expectations looked like. As The Guardian reports, it’s a charming, labyrinthine mess… Read more »
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Other things to do with books The veneration of books has always laid traps for the reckless and unwary, and it has frequently mutated into perversity. Many young lovers of books, for instance, have awakened to… Read more »
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John Lennon’s books DOJ investigating eBook industry Amazon’s KDP exclusivity deal Hot new job: bookstore owner Thai American jailed for translation ALCS Award for Educational Writing Grand Central partners with… Read more »
