Since its debut, the ebook has come with a fair amount of philosophical baggage. Is it even a book? Is it the death of the book? Introduce the concepts of… Read more »

Let’s face it, book publishers are not always the first to adapt to new technologies. I mean, how many of our entry level jobs involved taking dictation? Imagine an analogous… Read more »

iBooks: great for pounding down digital manuscript submissions, binge-sampling published books, and helping to obliterate the printed word. iBooks might lack for personality and features, but hey, it’s still better than reading… Read more »

There’s so much wretchedness in the world these days, and we hate to add to your ennui, but answer this: if romance writers can’t insert penis euphemisms into their titillating titles, WHAT IS… Read more »

It’s been ten years since Amazon’s Kindle introduced e-books as a major component of the publishing market, and four-ish years since Hachette and Simon & Schuster successfully negotiated with Amazon… Read more »

A pair of recent announcements from Walmart and Apple have given the American e-book market a shot in the arm. Last Thursday, Walmart announced on their corporate blog that they… Read more »

This holiday season, show your long-distance British significant other just how quantifiably much their love means to you, by buying them a yacht filled with butter. And maybe an e-book… Read more »

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 »