What Would Leopold Bloom Do? Ask him yourself in our new advice column
Complex and confusing, filled with words you don’t know and people you don’t understand, life is even more difficult to navigate than Ulysses. But luckily, we have Ulysses to help… Read more »
BREAKING NEWS: Amazon “declares war” on book industry
Has the vicious end-game scenario we discussed just yesterday — whereby a government-sanctioned Amazon.com makes its move to cement its position as the most colossal monopoly in publishing history, and… Read more »
The Amanda Knox circus—again
Amanda Knox, even while appearing on prime time television in America to promote her book Waiting to Be Heard, is facing yet another murder trial in Italy for a crime—of… Read more »
Some people never learn: Johnson & Merians start a new company … Melville House UK
Last Friday, in an exclusive with Philip Jones, editor of the UK’s leading book-trade magazine, The Bookseller, Melville House founders Valerie Merians and Dennis Johnson announced they’re starting another publishing… Read more »
Columbia J-School’s new dean greeted by new scandal
Earlier this week, the Columbia University School of Journalism announced a new dean: The distinguished investigative reporter Steve Coll. But the school’s outgoing dean, Nicholas Lemann, is curiously also in the… Read more »
Penguin opts for a jury of its peers
First, Penguin told the Justice Department to “Bring it on” — it was going to stand firm against the government’s bizarre price-fixing lawsuit even when most of the others charged… Read more »
The invasion of Iraq, ten years ago today
Today marks the ten year anniversary of the “Shock and Awe” bombing and invasion of Iraq and the first days of what would be called “Operation Iraqi Freedom” by the… Read more »
Cambridge & Oxford University presses sue Delhi University for copyright infringement — over course packs
Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and Taylor & Francis are suing a photocopying store at Delhi University for copyright infringement. The store, who they accuse of creating photocopied “course… Read more »
Are libraries “priceless”?
At a time when library budgets are being cut and the role of libraries is being debated, some grassroots pro-library efforts have been launched to build support. But in some… Read more »
Announcing a new prize for Jonathan Franzen to win
The Folio Society announced a new literary prize yesterday. The forty thousand pound prize is to be awarded to an English language book of fiction published in the UK. It… Read more »