The New York Public Library brings iconic feminist stories to Instagram
The New York Public Library is putting the “story” back in Instagram Stories. As of this summer, they have collaborated with independent advertising and creative agency Mother New York to… Read more »
Wattpad wants to be a literary agent
There are so many paths a book can take to publication. Often, writers brave the slush piles of editors and literary agents, or even posting ceaselessly on social media in the hopes… Read more »
How to support the authors you love
We all have our favorite books. Mine was anything of the Discworld series by the late Terry Pratchett. Most of us are quick to recommend new favorites to friends and our… Read more »
Eileen Myles on Instagram as a form of poetry
If you’re a poet and looking for some new spaces to share your work, maybe it’s time to give Instagram a try. So suggests award-winning American poet Eileen Myles, in an… Read more »
Can “Insta Novels” revive interest in reading?
There are some folks who complain about kids these days reading their social media timelines instead of reading a good book. Now those whippersnappers can have their cake and eat it,… Read more »
University of Hawai‘i Press will digitize twenty-two out-of-print books thanks to a Mellon Foundation grant
Last week, the University of Hawai‘i announced that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $100,000 grant to the University of Hawai‘i Press to help in the digitization and open-access distribution of twenty-two out-of-print books. The grant… Read more »
It’s clear why China is banning references to Animal Farm. It’s less clear why they’re banning references to the letter n.
We’ve written a lot recently about unfortunate goings-on in China, where President Xi Jinping has been busily consolidating his power for the past several years. As we wrote in November: When the CCP… Read more »
Don Quixote gets scrambled into an e-book about the mafia after a Spanish court bans the original
An ingenious attempt at bypassing censorship in Spain has led a bookseller’s association to reconfigure passages from Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote for online consumption. For the Telegraph, James Badcock reports on the unusual case of journalist Nacho… Read more »
The internet should be a public utility, Ajit Pai is obviously in the pocket of ISPs, and how to save the internet: A primer
When I tell people that I work for an independent publisher, they usually give me a confused look. For most, media is media is media. If a conglomerate happens to own… Read more »
Vox lays off fifty employees, many in “social video” departments across platforms
Vox Media Group announced this past Wednesday that they’re laying off fiften people, and shifting roles for another dozen. Todd Spangler at Variety reported on the story. In an email to employees,… Read more »