May 09, 2018 » MobyLives! Archives

Political and legal watchers were stunned last week when NBC News reported that Michael Cohen, the president’s personal lawyer, had been wiretapped. Attorneys and law professors all over Twitter were quick… Read more »

Melville House Books

Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Publishing — Melville House
Continued Covid crisis catalyzes e-book sales; fallout feared — Mike Lindgren
MELVILLE HOUSE ANNOUNCES 500,000 COPY PRINTING OF FIRST IN-DEPTH BOOK ABOUT QANON PHENOMENON AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE — Melville House
NYTimes tallies tsunami of Trump tomes; why John Dean's book Is different — Mike Lindgren

Have exclamation points reached saturation point?!?!

Tom Clayton

If, upon reading that headline, you developed a sudden and localised nervous tic above one or both eyes, then you might be among the growing number of people who, according to… Read more »

A Canadian publisher finds surprise success with handmade “high-end promotional protest literature,” Against Amazon

Simon Reichley

At Publishers Weekly, John Maher has written up the inspiring tale of a Canadian bookstore-turned-publisher that’s taken a distinctly old-school approach to confronting the galactic menace that is Amazon. As… Read more »

What does DC’s Amazon store have that Politics and Prose doesn’t? Not much worth mentioning.

Ryan Harrington

It’s been a big week, in a big year, of watching, waiting, and wondering about the fate of Barnes and Noble. On Monday, David Leonhardt published an op-ed in the New York Times… Read more »