This past May Day, New York Communities for Change (NYCC), a coalition of low income communities of color, took over Amazon’s corporate offices in midtown to protest the company’s involvement… Read more »

Ah, the long, sort-of-rich history of product placement in literature! MobyLives readers know all about books designed to sell Weber grills, Sweet ‘N Low, the nation of Malta, and Land Rovers—but what about books… Read more »

Barnes & Noble and Microsoft are surpassing the Gwyneth Paltrow/Chris Martin story as this year’s juiciest breakup. After two years of marriage, B&N and Microsoft have officially split, and their breakup letters made it into… Read more »

A lawsuit filed last Thursday by a proxy for Apple and Microsoft could deal a sharp blow to Google, and might be a glimpse of the bare-knuckled future of competition between… Read more »

As seems to be happening with increasing frequency lately, a couple of weeks ago I got invited to another country, in this case Sweden, to speak about contemporary publishing, with… Read more »

Author Ali Eteraz has posted a great article on Medium.com about the recent demise of the nastaliq script used to write in Urdu, due to the comparative difficulty of reproducing… Read more »

Well, it can’t all be bad news, I guess. After dropping the price of their Nook Simple Touch (I’m pretty sure it’s called the Nouk Simple Touch across the pond) from £79 to… Read more »

Barnes & Noble has been going through some changes this year. They have been swelling in odd places. They are sometimes angry or sad without knowing why. And people are… Read more »

As was widely expected, Barnes & Noble posted disappointing financial results in a third-quarter earnings report on Thursday. Sales in the company’s three biggest divisions—retail stores, college stores, and Nook… Read more »

The Kindle Fire released late last fall to robust sales despite lackluster reviews. The sales were strong enough to land Amazon the spot as the second bestselling tablet behind the… Read more »