BookCon is carefully considering your feedback about whether everyone everywhere should be so, so white
I owe the organizers of BookCon an apology. Last week I discussed their problems with diversity on their panels this year. But I jumped the gun. I got impatient. Diversity… Read more »
Sorry, internet, but there’s no problem with asserting copyright over translations of Marx
A radical British publisher is enforcing their copyright over the Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The internet commentariat, predictably, finds this unjust and ironic. It’s neither. Sorry, internet, but… Read more »
Wear shades to BookCon, it’ll be blindingly white in there
All of the thirty-one announced guest speakers at the newly rebranded BookCon portion of this year’s Book Expo America are very white. Even the cat. Even the goddamned cat is… Read more »
What does it mean to ‘amazon’ something?
If we’re at the point of using ‘amazon’ as a verb, allow me to suggest a few definitions. In an online tease for a BBC2 documentary about Amazon, the world’s… Read more »
Adventures in Christian publishing: imprints are for apostates
A new Christian imprint is putting out a book by a gay evangelical, leading some evangelical bloggers to ask: What is an imprint? How do they work? Something something sodomy?… Read more »
Amazon offers an employee buyout with a side of condescension
Amazon is offering warehouse employees a cash buyout to leave, according to USA TODAY. This being Amazon, the offer is composed of a bland and unappetizing dollar amount wrapped in a jagged,… Read more »
Do Amazon employees feel naughty using indie bookstores?
Amazon employees are frequenting indie bookstores in Seattle, the New York Times reports, and they may have something to do with the greater well-being of book culture across that city.… Read more »
Amazon will unveil a phone in June; water is still wet
Amazon is set to ship their first smartphone in September, according to the Wall Street Journal. Other breaking news; the Earth continues to orbit the sun, puppies remain cute, and… Read more »
PRESS RELEASE: Melville House to begin pairing audio with ebooks
Books are broken. Sure, maybe they were fine at one point, back when everything was boring and people smelled like horse farts or whatever, say before 1994, but now that… Read more »
The publishing industry is fine, insists the head of the largest publishing company that ever stalked the earth
The UK head of Penguin Random House has no doubts about the future of books. “Some commentators say the publishing industry is in enormous trouble today. They are completely wrong,… Read more »