The New York Times launches a Chinese edition On Thursday, the New York Times took a big step: it opened its first foreign-language website, cn.nytimes.com, a Chinese-language edition of the Times. For a news organization, opening your first… Read more »
Your reading behaviour is being monitored The Wall Street Journal reported last week on the extent to which big corporations are looking over our shoulders when we read: The major new players in e-book publishing—Amazon, Apple… 2 / Read more »
Copyright concerns, the new way to make something disappear The Vancouver Province newspaper took down a cartoonist’s parody video from their website, after the oil company depicted in the cartoon allegedly threatened to pull funding, says Leigh Beadon on Tech Dirt.… Read more »
Rare appearance by master Iranian novelist on C-Span Melville House author Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, author of the recently released The Colonel and Missing Soluch, talks about the struggle to publish his novels in Iran and the banning of his work by Iranian… Read more »
Lessons in Marketing, #99: And Jesus wept … Lord knows the book biz has its problems these days, one of which is that, uh, people aren’t buying as many whatchamacallits — books? — as they used to. But… Read more »
June’s contemporary poetry book review A little free library makes good A recap of Novella Month Literature vs. Genre Exercises in toothpaste Notes on a voice: Amis Philosophy as literature… Read more »