Publishers from around the world are gathered at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany this week to discuss the future of the industry. Among a number of high-profile speakers, legendary… Read more »

Andrew Wylie is not one to mince words—he isn’t known as “The Jackal” because he’s overly diplomatic after all. Recently, he’s been especially, um, to the point, when it comes… Read more »

Last week, we brought news of a major leap into the future from those brave, bold innovators at Amazon: the creation of New York’s first-ever pop-up shop/storage facility/product takeout space/kitchenware… Read more »

Authors United already boasts over 1,000 authors, but the group isn’t resting on its laurels and it isn’t done growing.  Two weeks after writing a powerful open letter to Amazon’s… Read more »

Andrew Wylie is traveling to foreign countries to warn them about Amazon. Not too long ago, he was warning the Germans that they ought to “pick the plague” over Amazon’s… Read more »

Rizzoli Bookstore, with its glittering chandelier and stories upon stories of art books, is probably closing for good today. The Vornado Realty Trust and the Lefrak family, who own the… Read more »

In the middle of a cold, dark week, is there any greater gift than a new interview with Andrew Wylie? The man is tougher, more concise, and more quotable than… Read more »

When, this fall, Arabic translator Jonathan Wright posted an open letter on his blog detailing how very far things had gone south with his translation of Egyptian author Alaa al-Aswany’s… Read more »

Welcome to publishing, bitch. Andrew Wylie, aka, The Jackal, has spoken. But when Wylie, maybe the world’s leading literary agent, considered arch-enemy to many in the publishing industry, speaks, he… Read more »

With China’s domestic book market booming, and spurred by the rabid demand for the work of Nobel laureate Mo Yan, the nation’s publishing industry has set its sights on a… Read more »