January 30, 2013

The role, duties, responsibilities, sins, virtues, and other attendant qualities… Read more »

Footballer Marcus Rashford's mum accepts Book of the Year award on his behalf — Tom Clayton
Oxford University Press pull Biff & Chip book over "scary" country pages — Tom Clayton
Book Aid For Ukraine auctions off publishing goodies raising relief funds — Nikki Griffiths
Fantasy author raises $25 million on Kickstarter to self-publish 4 new novels — Nikki Griffiths

ALA releases scorecard for publisher ebook terms

Claire Kelley

The committee proposes a rubric and method of evaluation to help public libraries… Read more »

Imagine the consternation translator Dai Congrong felt when she came across the following passage in James Joyce’s notoriously baffling Finnegans Wake: “What clashes here of wills gen wont, oystrygods gaggin… Read more »

Absolutely nothing will enter the public domain in 2013

Ariel Bogle

Do you remember the jubilation last year, here on MobyLives and in the wider community of scholars and book lovers, when the James Joyce estate passed into the public domain?… Read more »

The Annotated Moby-Dick

Nick Davies

GalleyCat reported yesterday on a project that’s looking to produce an annotated edition of Moby-Dick, with a campaign on Kickstarter to raise the funds to publish it. Chris Routledge is the… Read more »

Melville House Books

On editing and being edited

Sal Robinson