People who talk about books with any regularity are seasoned in their responses to the question of whether or not they read digitally. Often, it’s the first thing you’re asked… Read more »

The secret to getting rich in the bookselling business is to sell lots of books. Big house publishing and most bookstores rely on gargantuan sales from a handful of tentpole… Read more »

Here at MobyLives, we pride ourselves on chronicling the lives of books not just as repositories of culture but as actual physical objects. When we’ve searched inside books we’ve found other books, creepy… Read more »

Last week, Sheldon P. Blau, MD, author of How to Get Out of the Hospital Alive, filed a class action suit against Simon & Schuster, claiming that the publisher has been improperly… Read more »

Last summer, we reported on the New York City Department of Education’s proposal to employ Amazon’s services in building a massive, centralized ebook store for their entire network of schools… Read more »

As someone who used to work in art book publishing, I’ve had more than my fair share of questions about how print books will be adapted for the digital age. As more… Read more »

Apple Inc. v. United States of America et al. is no more. Despite the support of multiple high-profile author and bookseller advocates, the Supreme Court refused to consider the case,… Read more »

Yesterday, MobyLives wrote about Project Literacy’s petition calling on the United Nations to make increasing literacy around the globe a major goal. Coincidentally, this isn’t the only literary initiative to… Read more »

Orson & Co. is FutureBook’s “startup of the week”—meaning, basically, that the startup’s founders, author Richard Mason and Playstation veteran Kevin McSherry, are the latest adventurers on the publishing industry’s long quest… Read more »

The experimental publisher Visual Editions has teamed up with Google to launch ‘Editions at Play’, a digital bookstore “for books that cannot be printed.” The first titles, which have been… Read more »