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Protestors disrupt Amazon stockholder meeting, later claim victory for “the 99%” More than 100 protestors rallied outside and inside Amazon’s annual stockholders meeting in Seattle yesterday, calling upon the company to treat its workers better, pay its taxes, and end its… Read more »
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Apple tells the DOJ to get real In a blistering riposte to the Department of Justice lawsuit charging it and five of the Big Six publishing houses with antitrust violations, Apple has called the government’s case “a… Read more »
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DRAMATIC SURVEY RESULTS: Self-published books are not cash cows There must be plenty of people secretly scribbling away at romance and erotica novels at the moment, inspired by the E.L. James story. So perhaps this Guardian article yesterday was… Read more »
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The Sound and the Fury, hold the fury In an essay in this week’s New Yorker titled “Easy Writers,” Arthur Krystal traces the history of guilty reading pleasures and finds the modernist novel responsible for drawing a hard… 1 / Read more »
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Issues in Printing & Production, Lesson #347: The Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Pubic Affairs A typo on the cover of the program for the commencement exercises for the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin rendered the… 1 / Read more »
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FRIDAY SOMETHING-OR-OTHER-TO-DO-WITH-BOOKS MUSIC VIDEO: The Talking Heads’ “The Book I Read” Part two in our new weekly series featuring music videos that refer, in some way or other, to books. This week it’s “The Book I Read” by the Talking Heads,… Read more »
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MobyLives Coverage: DOJ vs Publishers We’ve been keeping a close watch on the case between the Department of Justice and five of the Big Six Publishers. If you’re after more context than the latest headline,… Read more »
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Clinical prose, lucid translation Text generating tricks from Oulipo I Am A Pole sits atop the list Somber Germans incapable of enjoying life, study says Asking questions without answers Egan’s… Read more »
