Amazon “Price Check Saturday” furor continues …. Illustration by Rumors Not to flog a dead horse, but Amazon’s “Price Check Saturday” promotion (see our earlier report) seems to have fanned some lasting opposition, ranging from the sublime… 3 / Read more »
Choose Your eReader: Compare and Contrast Amazon’s declaration of war on brick & mortar stores has lead to many powerful and creative responses from retailers. None though, so cleverly efficient as this chart (DOWNLOAD THE PDF),… 6 / Read more »
Bizarre-o feats of human endurance Tom Meyer recited the entire Book of Revelations (one hour, from memory) to the thirty people assembled at the Imperial Community Church in El Centro, California, on Sunday night. “Meyer,… 2 / Read more »
Book-sharing libraries on London’s tube Ever eager to jump on board with a no-brainer of a free idea, public idiot and Mayor of London Boris Johnson has announced his support for book-sharing schemes to be… 1 / Read more »
Most insufferable movie of the year? The moment we’ve all been waiting for… The 9/11 novel The New York Times called “irritating” and New York Press hailed as “incredibly false” has been made into a major feature… 6 / Read more »
Day in Review Naguib Mahfouz: A centenary tribute Make a book Christmas tree HuffPo book club PUBSLUSH Where are we in digital publishing On Spanish-language book publishing Book swaps at London tube stations… Read more »