July 26, 2013

Seamus Heaney, the Irish Nobel-prize winning poet tells an entertaining story about visiting his niece on the day of her christening. Having arrived without a present in hand, Heaney’s wife… Read more »

Arts & Culture

Salman Rushdie, Ian Rankin and Joanne Harris amongst those recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours list — Nikki Griffiths
Lost Charlotte Brontë manuscript sold for $1.25 million — Nikki Griffiths
Waterstones appeal aims to raise £1m for Ukraine disaster fund — Tom Clayton
The Big Jubilee Read: 70 books are selected to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 70 year reign — Nikki Griffiths

Stick a fork in it, it’s over: Obama to celebrate Amazon as champion employer, while company announces its umpteenth loss

Dennis Johnson

The release of Amazon.com’s quarterlies yesterday seemed like the same old same old — earnings were up (to $15.7 billion, for god’s sake), and yet the company still somehow managed… Read more »

Penguin settles with EU over ebook pricing

Kirsten Reach

Penguin has settled with the European Union over the ebooks antitrust case that has been going since December 2011, making it the final publisher to settle this case. It’s over.… Read more »

Publishers have paid $166 million in price-fixing case; Apple will probably pay way, way more than that

Alex Shephard

According to a document released on Tuesday, the five publishers involved in the DOJ’s recent ebook price-fixing case paid $166,158,426 to settle the state and consumer charges brought against them. Over… Read more »

Library in Ohio offers a seed sharing card catalog

Claire Kelley

In Ohio, the main branch of the Akron-Summit Public Library is using a repurposed card catalog to organize envelopes of vegetable seeds, which are available to patrons who visit the… Read more »

Composing yourself: on Miranda July’s We Think Alone

Emma Aylor

I found out about Miranda July’s current project, We Think Alone, through her newsletter. If I signed up, she wrote, “for the next twenty weeks you will get something pretty… Read more »

Melville House Books

Is there a poem fit for England’s new prince? Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy isn’t writing it

Zeljka Marosevic