September 13, 2016

Over at The Japan Times, the husband-and-wife team of Philip Brasor and Masako Tsubuku, in a story correctly entitled “Pricing System offers scant protection as Amazon Japan hacks away at bookstores’… Read more »

Amazon

New Yorkers protest Amazon providing ICE with tech — Liv Lansdale
Why should you pay more (if you can) for a book that's cheaper on Amazon? Read this thread from an indie bookseller — Ryan Harrington
Protestors concerned about pollution fight back against Amazon — Michael Seidlinger
Amazon removes from the marketplace books promoting dangerous and false "cures" for autism — Simon Reichley

Do Not Touch the Books: New technology to protect old works

Taylor Sperry

Researchers at MIT have built a camera that can read books without even opening them—or, rather, a camera that can read the first nine pages of a book that has… Read more »

And the award for oldest book in the Americas goes to…

Ian Dreiblatt

For a month and a half in early 1971, the Grolier Club in New York City (which bills itself as “America’s oldest and largest society for bibliophiles and enthusiasts in the graphic… Read more »

Donald Trumperhands? David Cay Johnston talks Trump with C-SPAN creator Brian Lamb

Melville House

“Donald has shut down many things with threats of litigation. I wrote a proposal for a Tim Burton movie about Donald Trump, and his threats of litigation meant that it… Read more »

Melville House Books

Amazon.jp does not care about Japan’s saihan seido system

Chad Felix