A Forbes contributor has suggested replacing libraries with Amazon bookstores
I hate everything about this, but here we go. Panos Mourdoukoutas, chair of the economics department at LIU-Post and a writer for Forbes, has published an opinion piece suggesting that Amazon Books stores… Read more »
Bill Murray will continue to live his best life by reciting Walt Whitman in a Greek amphitheatre
Join me now as we journey through the mists of time to 1979. A long, hot summer is in full, ahem, swing. Caddyshack, the cult screwball golfing comedy, is being filmed. It’s… Read more »
Will bribes from brands influence the future of online journalism?
It’s a lonely life, the blogger’s. It is rarely glamorous, or remunerative. All of this perhaps makes its disciples prone to temptation. This week, Jon Christian, writing for the The Outline—an online tech and… Read more »
Hemingway’s six-toed Key West cats (and the humans that care for them) stuck around for Hurricane Irma, and they all made it through just fine
This past Saturday, September 9th, the Telegraph reported that the staff at the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum would not be evacuating Key West in advance of Hurricane Irma, despite overwhelming… Read more »
Forbes launches book “publishing” imprint
Forbes magazine’s decision to launch a book publishing imprint was motivated by the rise of Donald Trump. At least that’s how The Drum’s Ian Burrell interpreted the news that Forbes… Read more »
Romanian businessman prosecuted for plagiarism after publishing his way out of jail
It seemed like a great idea at the time. But a 2013 provision in Romanian criminal sentencing law allowing prisoners to shorten their sentences by writing “books of scientific value” was quickly… Read more »
So why did Amazon open a bookstore?
Stories about Amazon’s latest skullduggeries, you may have noticed, have shorter and shorter life spans. At least within the industry. The company’s endless series of monopolistic accomplishments have been so… Read more »
Amazon buys digital comics platform comiXology
Amazon announced last week that it was purchasing comiXology, a major platform for digital comics used by most comic publishers, including the two biggest, Marvel and DC Comics. As Michael… Read more »
Please don’t enable the sociopath in your life with these management books
Terrible people are hard to shop for. We all know that. Think of the countless times you’ve picked out something meaningful for your favorite dead-eyed sociopathic Leader friend, only to… Read more »
On Amazon, people don’t browse and buy
So much for “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought …” and “Frequently Bought Together”: A fascinating dispatch in Forbes reports that less than 10% of book purchases on Amazon… Read more »