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

Dave Eggers’ new hardcover will be available in indie bookstores only — Bryn Goldstein
Print primacy praised by PRH panjandrum; dohle doubles down — Mike Lindgren
"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

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