February 15, 2018

Those working at Amazon’s Seattle Headquarters must be feeling a bit nervous around now. According to Matt Day at the Seattle Times, several hundred jobs are about to be axed… Read more »

Amazon

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
California and Washington enter Amazon investigation — Andy Dion

In Illinois, another lawsuit to try to get publications into prisons

Taylor Sperry

We’ve been following some ongoing reports on the censorship of reading materials available to inmates in prisons across the country, and the latest comes to us from Chicago, where the… Read more »

Cryptocurrencies might solve an ad revenue problem for Salon, and book publishers should take note

Peter Clark

All of the computer hardware in the world combined can do about 1.5 x 10^21 FLOPS per second (translation: roughly a fuckton). It reflects a huge uptrend in our ability to perform… Read more »

The 3% Problem versus the 0% Problem

You may have noticed that the National Book Foundation has launched a new annual award for best work of translated fiction or non-fiction. It’s welcome recognition for an area of publishing that’s exploded… Read more »

Melville House Books

Computers versus humans: Amazon HQ is cutting a bunch o’ jobs

Nikki Griffiths

In Illinois, another lawsuit to try to get publications into prisons

Taylor Sperry

Cryptocurrencies might solve an ad revenue problem for Salon, and book publishers should take note

Peter Clark

The 3% Problem versus the 0% Problem

Michael Barron