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A British rival to Amazon? Sainsbury’s buys stake in Anobii Could there be promising news from the UK, less than a month after James Daunt did the ‘ruthless, money-making devil’ Amazon a favour by agreeing to sell Kindles in Waterstones stores? It… Read more »
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Google search results are the “table of contents for a custom-made magazine” Earlier this year, MobyLives wrote about a Google-commissioned report that characterized the tech giant as a publisher, for First Amendment purposes. Now Cory Doctorow, writing in The Guardian, outlines the… Read more »
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E-book holdout Thomas Pynchon agrees to digitize his backlist The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog is reporting that after refusing to get on the digital bandwagon for years, novelist Thomas Pynchon has struck a deal with his publisher,… Read more »
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Brigid Brophy: space in the minivan? In a time when e-readers are marketed like minivans—mine can carry more than yours—it feels good to rediscover Brigid Brophy, Michael Levey, and Charles Osborne’s Fifty Works of English (and… Read more »
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When did America get its bookstores? It’s 1931, in a book industry without returns, discounting, superstores, or even paperbacks. Where do you buy a book? As Alexis Madrigal writes in The Atlantic, the answer is not… 1 / Read more »
- Day in Review
The short story is not a test run for the novel Dave Tomkins remembers Ray Bradbury and the end of the world Alan Furst’s historical fiction UVA President abruptly resigns… Read more »
