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One of the UK’s most despised media moguls is making a move for one of the UK’s most beloved media properties: Rupert Murdoch has made an offer to buy Penguin.… Read more »

The Chinese edition of the New York Times, inaugurated earlier this year (see this MobyLives post), faced its first public challenge last Friday, when both the English and Chinese editions… Read more »

The first Designers & Books Fair was held this weekend at FIT. Organized by Stephen Kroeter, the weekend-long event hosted speaking events, book signings, and a publisher exhibit hall with 35… Read more »

Canadian publishing industry magazine Quill and Quire reports that, shocked by the imbalance between men and women who win literary prizes, Janice Zawerbny has come up with the idea for… Read more »

“The past is not dead! Actually, it’s not even past. You know who said that? Faulkner. And he was right. And I met him, too. I ran into him at… Read more »