Jojo Moyes’ new book bears “striking similarities” to a recently published novel
Oh boy, we are excited today, because today is the rare day where we get to start a blog post with the line: HOT, HOT LITERARY SCANDAL. They don’t come… Read more »
Two Nobel prizes in literature to be awarded next week
The Swedish Academy is set to announce two more Nobel laureates next week, after it did not hand out the prize last year. The postponement last year was the result… Read more »
Rape or weird foreplay: Bob Woodward investigates
Iconic investigative reporter Bob Woodward put his foot in his mouth on the evening of October 2 and then proceeded to keep shoving it back in a couple more times before… Read more »
Audiobook listening rate almost doubles in eight years
The rate at which adults listen to audiobooks has almost doubled since 2011. Pew has just released a survey of 1,502 adults taken between January 8 and February 7 that… Read more »
“The fact that you can see the words doesn’t make it a book,” argues Audible’s lawyer
The saga of Audible’s Captions program continues! You can read up on our coverage of the debacle here and here. Basically, the Big Five alongside Chronicle Books and Scholastic have… Read more »
The prestige-mini-series-option-industrial complex
Wooooooo wooooooo WOOOOO woo woo woo woo woooooooo (that’s an onomatopoeia of the tune of the theme music of Big Little Lies, to get you in the mood). … Read more »
African American online bookstore cuts ties with Amazon
As we’ve discussed here and here, tensions between publishers and Amazon have recently come to a head over the issue of Amazon’s new “captions” feature for audio books (which one… Read more »
Our continued fascination with Sherlock Holmes continues to fascinate
According to the LA Times, two venerable institutions are throwing their energies behind a search for lost Sherlock Holmes films. Christi Carras writes: The UCLA Film & Television Archive and… Read more »