Bestselling novelist Shin Kyung-sook accused of plagiarism
Shin Kyung-sook, author of Please Look After Mom and I’ll Be Right There, has been accused of plagiarism by author Lee Eung-jun. Kyung-sook, whose first book sold two million copies… Read more »
Forty years later: the book jacket for “Jaws”
“First novels generally sink, and this was a first novel about a fish,” author Peter Benchley said of his novel Jaws, in a 1991 interview with the Palm Beach Post.… Read more »
What’s happening to school librarians in Kansas?
Twenty-five percent of school librarians in Kansas have been cut in the last decade. In many cases, they’ve been replaced by media clerks, who do not have a degree in… Read more »
You don’t get paid unless people actually read your book: the new Kindle Unlimited royalties
This July, Amazon is changing the way it pays authors for books in Kindle Unlimited and the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. In short, it’s paying the authors a royalty based… Read more »
Ursula LeGuin: “The idea of publishing is almost gone, replaced by the Amazon model.”
Ursula LeGuin believes that “the idea of publishing is almost gone, replaced by the Amazon model.” In a long but remarkably concise blog post titled “Up the Amazon with the… Read more »
“Women seem to have literary cooties”
Author Nicola Griffith researched fifteen years of literary awards, and she concludes in The Bookseller yesterday that novels written from a female perspective are less likely to receive a prize. You’ve heard… Read more »
Every prize needs a new sponsor right now: IMPAC Award will be funded by the public
For the first time in twenty years, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award will not be funded by the American productivity company IMPAC. The company is now defunct, and so… Read more »
NYPL releases the weirdest reference questions from the 1940s-1980s
Librarians’ patience has been tested at least as long as there have been libraries. Oh, and as long as there have been people. People to bother them. People who need… Read more »
How to shop on Amazon.com & purchase from an indie bookstore
Want to browse on Amazon but buy locally? There’s a Chrome extension for that. The extension has the unfortunate name Bookindy, but it serves a great purpose: allowing online buyers… Read more »
Margaret Atwood delivers secret manuscript to be published in 2114
Margaret Atwood has delivered her next book! But the novel, titled Scribbler Moon, is sealed away in a library trust where none of us will read it (unless we solve… Read more »