December 06, 2016 » MobyLives! Archives

Telepathic™ wants you to pay for Hoots™ on Hooked™, a new “Twitter™ for fiction” reading app for the Snapchat Generation™

Readers, book tech is almost always bad — and with Hooked, the utterly confounding “Twitter for fiction” reading app created for “the Snapchat generation,” the “narrative technology company” Telepathic has backhand sprung… Read more »

eBooks

Man arrives 13 hours early for flight powered by steak bakes and motivational books — Tom Clayton
Returning an ebook after reading: is Amazon's return policy damaging to authors and publishers? — Nikki Griffiths
Continued Covid crisis catalyzes e-book sales; fallout feared — Mike Lindgren
Internet Archive vs. Publishers feud intensifies; court ruling will settle kerfuffle — Mike Lindgren

In which Fidel Castro edits Gabriel García Márquez

Taylor Sperry

On top of leading the Cuban Revolution, bringing the Cold War to the Western Hemisphere, surviving more than 600 assassination attempts, and governing a nation for nearly 50 years, the… Read more »

Bob Dylan is being a great sport about that Nobel Prize he won; everybody please lay off Bob Dylan

Ian Dreiblatt

We all know 2016 has been a bloodbath. I say: let us not only mourn the dead, but also celebrate the living! And there’s good news on that front: as… Read more »

Watch Owen Jones drop a steak of delightful intelligence into the shark-infested waters of the media

Melville House

“So, basically, I’m like this meat in the ocean, and you’re the sharks.” So saith columnist, Melville House author, and all-around great sport Owen Jones, in a recent video in which… Read more »

Melville House Books

December 6, 2016