What’s up, bootlickers: Seattle city council repeals the Employee Hours Tax, reneging on its commitment to address homelessness
Amazon, in coalition with Starbucks and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allan, has succeeded in its bid to repeal an employee hours tax (EHT) unanimously approved last month by the Seattle City Council. The tax was… Read more »
Amazon’s Kindle is being built in China by the same company that worked its employees to death making iPhones
A dismal but unsurprising report compiled by China Labor Watch (CLW), and reported on by Gethin Chamberlain at the Guardian, reveals what any casual student of Marx could have easily… Read more »
Laura Moser pivots to print, joining Strong Arm Press after a failed Congressional bid
Laura Moser is famous for two things. One of those things is Daily Action, an online and mobile platform that enables grassroots activists around the country to engage with their… Read more »
This weekend, Books for Africa will celebrate having shipped millions of free books to every country in Africa
Thirty years ago, retired book publisher Tom Warth founded Books for Africa, a charitable organization on a mission to end “book famine” in the world’s second-largest, and third-most-populous continent. He… Read more »
Meet the hedge fund manager who’s going to blow up the publishing industry by paying authors half the, uh, profits on their books
Jonathan De Montfort has a totally crazy idea: what if you paid authors… wait for it… to write books? Insane, right? Maybe, but De Montfort, an Englishman who spent several years… Read more »
James Mattis may well be a war criminal, and no amount of reading will change that
At CNBC.com, Amanda Macias has written an admiring profile of James “Mad Monk Dog Warrior” Mattis and his voracious reading habits. Macias documents Mattis’s longstanding reputation as a bookworm, citing colleagues… Read more »
All your kid are belong to us: Amazon’s funding a startup that will prepare children for their robot future by reading aloud to them
Do you have young children? Do you enjoy reading aloud to them? Do you wish that an evil robot could help you scare the frickin’ bajeezus out of them while… Read more »
Tehran Book Fair Uncensored continues, highlighting censored voices from the Persian diaspora
The Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF) came to a close on May 12th, two days after Donald Trump announced that the United States will be withdrawing from the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal. Several… Read more »
The AAP has released revised sales data for 2017 and 2016, and the news is… kinda good!
At Publishers Lunch, Michael Cader has a tidy summary of the American Association of Publishers’ revised data for 2017, which contains some surprising revelations. The news is good, more or… Read more »
A Canadian publisher finds surprise success with handmade “high-end promotional protest literature,” Against Amazon
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 »