Reprogrammable Braille offers tremendous potential to blind and visually impaired readers
We have, over the years, had ample cause to ridicule a good number of faddish “book technologies,” each of which was certain to “change the nature of reading, at scale” or “revolutionize the… Read more »
Books for Africa celebrates the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s birth
Nelson Mandela, the socialist freedom fighter who led South Africa out of Apartheid in the nineties died in 2013, and would have celebrated his 100th birthday last Wednesday. To commemorate the… Read more »
A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of Carl Malamud’s Public.Resource.Org, ordering a trial court to reconsider his fair use claims
We’ve written about Carl Malamud and PRO (a charitable organization he founded to disseminate articles of public interest on the internet) several times over the last few years. Malamud’s been… Read more »
Workers in Spain, Poland, and Germany strike against Amazon’s brutal labor practices on Prime Day
Workers at Amazon fulfillment centers across Europe—in Spain, Poland and Germany—went on strike this week, protesting the company’s abysmal pay, inhumane management practices, and refusal to enter into collective bargaining agreements… Read more »
Sean Spicer’s launch party is going to be lit
As you’ve probably heard, Chief Bootlicker, noted dipshit, fun-loving Holocust denier, and former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer is now an author. He wrote a book called The Briefing: Politics,… Read more »
Barnes and Noble fires CEO Demos Parneros for violations of its company policy, withholding severance
Only July 3rd, Barnes and Noble fired its CEO, Demos Parneros, ending the former paper clip salesman’s fourteen-month stint as top boss at the last major book retail chain in the… Read more »
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wins re-election in Turkey, further endangering writers and journalists throughout the country
Four days ago, Muharram Ince conceded Turkey’s presidential election to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. While Erdoğan’s AKP (Justice and Development Party) lost some ground in parliament, Erdoğan himself outperformed many expectations,… Read more »
Jonathan Franzen is profiled in the New York Times, internet responds accordingly
Did you hear? Did you see? The New York Times Magazine ran a profile of Jonathan Franzen written by Taffy Brodesser-Akner! Just yesterday! The piece was presumably conceived as a sort… Read more »
Barnes and Noble calls a net loss of $125.5 million part of a “long-term strategic turnaround plan,” which, OK, sure
If you’re a publishing professional you probably logged on to the world wide web at some point yesterday, checked Publishers Weekly, and saw a striking headline: “B&N Posted Loss of… Read more »
VIDA have published their 2017 Count, the first of the #MeToo era
Since 2009, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts has been compiling data on the representation of women in literary publications and book reviews. Since 2016, they have also been tracking various… Read more »