Hachette CEO Arnaud Nourry thinks e-books are “a stupid product”
It’s been ten years since Amazon’s Kindle introduced e-books as a major component of the publishing market, and four-ish years since Hachette and Simon & Schuster successfully negotiated with Amazon… Read more »
Hoover’s FBI vs. black independent booksellers
It’s 1968. J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI is working overtime to suppress the gathering momentum of the Black Power movement. Under the aegis of COINTELPRO (for the Bureau’s Counter Intelligence Program), agents and… Read more »
A federal judge sees embedded tweets as a violation of copyright law
One of the hottest stories from last year was definitely November’s copyright infringement lawsuit, brought by photographer Justin Goldman. Doubtless you’ve all been all atwitter awaiting the verdict. Well, here it is: for The Verge, Adi Robertson reports… Read more »
Throw out your computer — typewriters are making a comeback
Everything old is new again. By now, many of us on the internet have seen and maybe even poked fun at hipsters using typewriters out in public. But what seems… Read more »
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