Happy 2022 to everyone! We thought we’d start off the new year by taking a close look at the logistics behind the supply-chain issues that have bedeviled the industry in… Read more »

Welp. It appears that the book-burners have returned, as they so often seem to in times of national strife, and it is not a comforting sight. As New York Times… Read more »

We here at John Street don’t tend to pay super-close attention to courts and laws and the like—can you spell boooooring?—but news of a recent Supreme Court decision did penetrate… Read more »

We were both startled and delighted to read in the Wall Street Journal, natch, that our nation’s long-suffering right-wing scribes have finally found people brave enough to bear the withering… Read more »

Where will it all end? The incessant roundelay of mergers and acquisitions (“M&A,” in the parlance of our finance-bro pals—but, we digress) continues apace. According to Monday’s Wall Street Journal,… Read more »

Protestors have gathered at famous indie bookstore Powell’s, in Portland, Oregon, to express their opposition to the store’s selling of Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy, by right-wing… Read more »

[Note from the marketing director] After last week’s fiasco the managing editor has been restored to factory settings, but is currently on probation. We will be watching him closely. AS… Read more »

The battle between the nonprofit Internet Archive and the publishing industry, which has accused the former of digital piracy, took a definitive turn when the publishers filed a copyright infringement… Read more »

Is that? Do I hear? Is that the sound of good news? Well, not quite. Here’s where we’re at. As reported in Publishers Weekly, the Department of Justice motioned for… Read more »

On Monday, a group of publishers sued the nonprofit Internet Archive, claiming that the group’s distribution of free e-books violated the terms of copyright and amounted to digital piracy. According… Read more »