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Dustin Kurtz

Dustin Kurtz is the marketing manager of Melville House, and a former bookseller.

• Amazon to monetize fan fiction, he moaned

  “Blair,” Jeff whispered, his lips almost touching her earlobe, “I have something I need to tell you.” “Jeff, please,” Blair danced away. She laughed coyly, mercilessly. They’d both had too… Read more »

• What does it mean that the New York Times Book Review is no longer listing bestseller prices?

  Having recently taken the helm of the New York Times Book Review, Pamela Paul recently charted her first series of course corrections. Most curious among them: book prices are no longer to be printed… Read more »

• Eleven tactics to keep your reading choice a secret

  Over at the Literary Saloon Michael Orthofer discusses the secrecy with which the Nobel committee must read over the works that have been nominated, lest the names of those under consideration… Read more »

• A user’s guide to Amazon Coins

  As we discussed back in February, Amazon has been working on a digital currency specifically for the Kindle Fire, and now it’s finally here. Only three questions remains: how fast… Read more »

• Slideshow: Interpreting the stoop books of Brooklyn

  My new favorite blog (as of half an hour ago, after The New Inquiry Sunday Reading pointed me there—and yes I’m using the word ‘favorite’ pretty loosely) is Stoop Books… Read more »

• Microsoft may buy Nook, B&N grows hair in strange places

  Barnes & Noble has been going through some changes this year. They have been swelling in odd places. They are sometimes angry or sad without knowing why. And people are… Read more »

• B&N shoots self in foot, bellows at consumers “Are you happy now?”

  Barnes & Noble made two announcements this week sure to delight everyone invested in the Nook—with the exception of those who have actually invested in the Nook. B&N has discounted… Read more »

• Grendel was a Tyrannosaurus Rex, claims the world’s coolest literary critic

  The signal internet-driven joy of recent decades—other than the Hamster Dance (never forget)—is in discovering previously unsuspected veins of enthusiasm and rage into which some portion of humanity has been… Read more »

• What to do when you have no spine: The Atlantic publishes ebooks

  As Laura Hazard Owen of paidContent reports, The Atlantic announced Wednesday that they will begin publishing ebooks under a new venture called The Atlantic Books. The press will publish “original long-form… Read more »

• Equal parts failure, defeat and sadness: shuttering a beloved indie press

  News ricocheted around a very specific segment of social media last week that Mud Luscious Press would be shutting down. Mud Luscious is not particularly old—it was founded by author J.A.… Read more »