FTC reviewing possible acquisition of Baker and Taylor by Ingram Content Group
According to reports in Shelf Awareness and Publishers Weekly, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the USA’s preeminent trust-busting agency, is conducting preliminary research into the possible acquisition of book and… Read more »
B&N filed a hard-hitting countersuit against Demos Parneros
It’s been a few months since we last checked in on the impending legal fracas between Demos Parneros and his erstwhile employeer, Barnes and Noble. Since Parneros filed his truly… Read more »
Reminder: the Amazon HQ2 is terrible business deal and a waste of taxpayer money
As we noted a few days ago, it is difficult to justify the decision to spend $1.5 billion dollars incentivizing a trillion dollar company to move to a city that… Read more »
A misprinted poetry book gives Super Mario Bros. 3 fans an unexpected title
Our production department (hello, Susan!) works incredibly hard to make sure our books get punctually and perfectly proofed, set, printed, bound, packed, shipped, and stocked. It almost always works like… Read more »
Jean-Claud Arnaud is sentenced to two years in prison for rape, bringing some closure to a period of great unrest for the Swedish Academy
The scandal plaguing the Swedish Academy found some small measure of resolution last week, as Jean-Claude Arnaud, husband of former Academy member Katarina Frostenson, was sentenced to two years in prison… Read more »
Len Riggio, who has fired four CEOs in five years, denies that instability in corporate leadership has hurt Barnes and Noble
It’s been almost two months since Barnes and Noble fired CEO Demos Parneros. At the time, details on the ouster were scarce, but in late-August, Parneros filed a lawsuit against… Read more »
Jean-Claude Arnault, husband of Swedish Academy member Katarina Frostenson, is on trial for allegations of rape
In April of this year, the Swedish Academy, which determines the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, was thrown into utter disarry, when Jean-Claude Arnault, husband of Academy member… Read more »
In the aftermath of India’s historic ruling on gay sex, organizers plan first-ever Queer Literature Festival in Uttar Pradesh
On Thursday, September 6th, the Supreme Court of India unanimously declared unconstitutional that the country’s 150 year old ban on consensual gay sex. It was a momentous decision, one which… Read more »
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 »