False claims that the UK executed gay men result in cancellation of Naomi Wolf’s latest book
Back in May, Virago published Naomi Wolf’s new book Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love in the UK. Best known for her acclaimed feminist title The Beauty Myth, her… Read more »
One Tolkien over the line… and other puns to celebrate the publication of more stories from Middle Earth
Trench fever: It’s a pretty serious infection that’s spread by body lice. Symptoms include a fever that lasts five days and pain in the legs. Recovery can take months, and sometimes leaves lifelong… Read more »
Amazon subsidiary Audible acquires audiobook rights to Shaun White’s memoir in a bid for greater dominance of the audio market
In a statement released on Business Wire earlier this week, Audible (a subsidiary of Amazon) and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) announced that they would be entering “a groundbreaking partnership” to… Read more »
Boston Children’s Museum doesn’t want any of that Mein Kampf money
. . . and others might not either. For 16 of the past 80+ years that Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has been publishing Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, the Boston-based publisher has… Read more »
Conservative activist catches Houghton Mifflin Harcourt employee on camera telling the truth
James O’Keefe, the conservative activist known for his many failed attempts to reveal sinister liberal conspiracies using laughably edited hidden camera footage, has found a new target: book publishing. Specifically, textbook publisher and proud… Read more »
Houghton Mifflin partners with Weber Grills, inaugurating new era of publisher-brand collaboration
What’s the central threat to the domestic publishing industry? Is it overproduction? Is it Google Books? Is it the United States government’s consistent willingness to define consumer interest in a… Read more »
Texas State Board of Education approves social studies textbooks, doesn’t really know what’s in them (but it’s probably stuff about how Moses was awesome)
Let’s begin with a short quiz: Do you like power? Do you also like ignorance? Do you enjoy imposing your arbitrary wishes and paranoid half-opinions on the population of the… Read more »
Editor Drenka Willen wins new international literature prize
These past few years have been good ones for awards honoring international literature: prizes have mutated in and out of sponsorships fairly successfully, gained traction and publicity, honored translations and… Read more »
Houghton takes a bite out of Wiley
This is book industry consolidation by drips and drops… Read more »
No means yes: why is Barnes & Noble selling Amazon’s Penny Marshall bio?
“It’s something the company was quite clear about”… Read more »