April 15, 2014

Amazon employees are frequenting indie bookstores in Seattle, the New York Times reports, and they may have something to do with the greater well-being of book culture across that city.… Read more »

Amazon

"BoxedOut" campaign to warn customers of costs of shopping on Amazon this season — Ryan Harrington
What are the other options for those who think GoodReads “sucks” and is “just shy of unbearable”? — Athena Bryan
California and Washington enter Amazon investigation — Andy Dion
Did Dean Koontz predict coronavirus? — Nikki Griffiths

Al Franken is to Comcast as who is to publishing?

Kirsten Reach

Over the weekend, Ashley Parker of The New York Times reported that Senator Al Franken has been speaking out against the Comcast-NBC Universal merger. It’s not unheard of to move… Read more »

Donna Tartt wins the 2014 Pulitzer Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Goldfinch

The 2014 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced at Columbia University yesterday afternoon. A number of big names won in the Journalism category—most notably the Washington Post and the Guardian for their… Read more »

Swedish designer rejects Amazon’s offer for amazon.se domain name

Nick Davies

Amazon is hoping to extend its business into Scandinavia, but has hit a roadblock in Sweden, per a report from The Local, which reports news from various European countries in… Read more »

The new biography

Emma Aylor

In a post on The Millions last Friday, Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin examined the use of authors’ archival material in the digital age: After centuries of shuffling papers, biographers must now deal with… Read more »

Melville House Books

Do Amazon employees feel naughty using indie bookstores?

Dustin Kurtz