February 21, 2018

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 »

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Continued Covid crisis catalyzes e-book sales; fallout feared — Mike Lindgren
Internet Archive vs. Publishers feud intensifies; court ruling will settle kerfuffle — Mike Lindgren
Publishers sue "Internet Archive"; authors & editors irate — Mike Lindgren
AVAILABLE NOW: Coping with Coronavirus — Melville House

Hoover’s FBI vs. black independent booksellers

Ryan Harrington

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

Alex Primiani

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

Stephanie DeLuca

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 »

Melville House Books

Hachette CEO Arnaud Nourry thinks e-books are “a stupid product”

Simon Reichley