May 26, 2016

From 14th June, Waterstones, the UK’s largest book retailer, will no longer be selling e-books directly and will instead be partnering with Kobo. Customers will receive emails explaining how to… 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

Multiple-award-winning press deemed “nonessential” by financially strapped university

Chad Felix

Northern Illinois University Press has received an astonishing forty-eight book prizes since the year 2000. It has published academics based at prominent institutions, including Yale, Marquette, and Mercer Universities, and also operates Switchgrass… Read more »

Melbourne bookstore to close because one jerk complained

Liam O’Brien

In yet another instance of an uptight Australian snitch ruining it for the rest of us indie bookstore-goers, a beloved bookstore is being forced to close in St. Kilda, a suburb of… Read more »

The majority of Texans are gay, writes Texas GOP

Taylor Sperry

Earlier this month, the Texas Republican Party gathered in Dallas to update the party platform for 2016. “As expected,” Leif Reigstad writes for Texas Monthly, “the platform was basically a… Read more »

Melville House Books

As Waterstones prepares to stop selling ebooks, are we seeing physical books trumping digital?

Nikki Griffiths