May 20, 2014

Tomorrow’s launch of a new organization called the Authors Alliance—founded by Berkeley academics interested in providing support for authors interested in sharing their content for free—is causing some disruption at… Read more »

Amazon

Returning an ebook after reading: is Amazon's return policy damaging to authors and publishers? — Nikki Griffiths
Dave Eggers’ new hardcover will be available in indie bookstores only — Bryn Goldstein
"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

Amazon is also bullying European publisher Bonnier

Alex Shephard

Just over a week after David Streitfeld revealed that Amazon was bullying Hachette in an effort to secure a better contract, the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has reported that the retailer… Read more »

How should book perfumes really smell?

Dustin Kurtz

It’s among the most fetishized of scents, (or at least the most socially acceptable to fetishize). That smell of dust and lignin and aging glue: sometimes it seems almost as… Read more »

Philip Roth is retiring from everything

Benjamin Sandman

Philip Roth continues retiring. Roth announced he was finished with writing way back in 2012. Since then, he has been the subject of a 90-minute PBS documentary and a biography;… Read more »

Original Wolverine comic sells for hundreds of thousands

Nick Davies

The first drawing of the iconic comic book character Wolverine was sold at auction last week for $657,250, George Gene Gustines writes for the New York Times Arts Beat blog. The… Read more »

Melville House Books

Authors Alliance launches, to the chagrin of the Authors Guild

Kirsten Reach