February 24, 2014

Japan has been hit with an ugly string of vandalism recently, with hundreds of copies of Anne Frank books defaced in Tokyo libraries. Martin Fackler writes for the New York… Read more »

Libraries & librarians

The late Riley Gale, singer of Power Trip, to have Dallas library named for him — Ryan Harrington
Ex-Librarian and bookseller sentenced in decades-long theft scheme — Alyea Canada
Publishers sue "Internet Archive"; authors & editors irate — Mike Lindgren
The New York Public Library brings the sounds of the city to your home — Alyea Canada

Wikipedia to be a book, or rather, a lot of books

Sal Robinson

Those sneaky Wikipedians! First, they made print encyclopedias obsolete, and now, they’ve decided that perhaps print isn’t so dusty and backwards after all. A group called the Wikipedia Book Project… Read more »

“Train time is found time”: Amtrak offers residencies for writers

Emma Aylor

This past week, the idea of writing residencies on Amtrak trains took off. On the 19th, Jessica Gross, Amtrak’s first writer-in-residence (for a few days, anyway), published a short essay… Read more »

Your mother was right: poll confirms most writers don’t make any money

Martin Rouse

Over 9,000 authors reported their writing income in the 2014 Digital Book World Author Survey, and—spoiler!—it wasn’t very much. Specifically, 54% of traditionally published authors (and 77% of self-published), made… Read more »

Melville House Books

Anne Frank books vandalized in Tokyo

Nick Davies