December 08, 2016 » MobyLives! Archives

For those of you keeping up with our diligent reportage on this urgent issue, I’m sorry to say that this might be the last MobyLives dispatch regarding the Amazon original… 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

Weird Christmas reads: a festive selection with a twist

Nikki Griffiths

If you haven’t yet done all your Christmas shopping and you’re struggling to find the right present for weird uncle Bob, fear not! Forget all those run-of-the-mill Christmas books out… Read more »

Rebecca Solnit’s Hope in the Dark sees surge in sales following That Bad Thing That Happened

Leonard Cohen, yet another casualty of 2016, on his prescient and excellent 1992 album The Future, sings, “There is a crack in everything / That’s how the light gets in.” Well, twenty-four… Read more »

The War on Christmas: Christmas wins in name and everything else, so please buy books

Peter Clark

Last weekend, my mother was visiting from Arizona and wanted to see The Rockettes’ Christmas Spectacular. For those who have never heard of it, it’s eighty intermission-free minutes of Christmas theater… Read more »

Melville House Books

December 8, 2016

So long, Good Girls Revolt . . . it’s been real

Taylor Sperry

Weird Christmas reads: a festive selection with a twist

Nikki Griffiths

Rebecca Solnit’s Hope in the Dark sees surge in sales following That Bad Thing That Happened

Chad Felix

The War on Christmas: Christmas wins in name and everything else, so please buy books

Peter Clark