Just last week we wrote about the latest movements in the ongoing standoff between Macmillan and libraries regarding the publisher’s ebooks. A very very quick re-re-cap: On November 1st 2019, Macmillan instituted… Read more »

The COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in China is currently the top news story around the world as it continues to spread to other countries and the death toll rises. One country… Read more »

One of the biggest challenges of the upcoming 2020 election will be turning red states blue. In Arizona, bookstores want to help.  Changing Hands Bookstore, which has locations in Phoenix… Read more »

UPDATE: Publishers Weekly reports that after backlash over use of the word “tribe,” the name of the venture has been changed to BookClubHub. Our friends over at BookBar, an indie bookstore… Read more »

Publishers Weekly’s Jim Milliot reports that B&N CEO James Daunt won’t be making any immediate, holiday-inspired adjustments to the beleaguered bookstore chain he took over in August. On the one… Read more »

Like a good legal thriller (even better, a radio serial), the story of Audible’s “Captions” program has us anticipating every new twist and turn. To recap the last few weeks of… Read more »

After much panic, good news: the Trump administration’s newest round of tariffs on EU goods will not include books. Publishers Weekly reports that the confusion was born from a line… Read more »

If you’ve been looking at the New York Times Best Sellers list lately, perhaps you have seen this book or this book. If you’re looking at it a couple of weeks… Read more »

The UK Booksellers Association is challenging booksellers to become more environmentally friendly, launching Green Bookselling: A Manifesto for the BA, Booksellers, and the Book industry. Jim Milliot outlines the manifesto… Read more »

Audiobooks are books that get recorded. There are exceptions to this statement (like audio originals), but stick with me here. Transcribing an audiobook, then, would simply create a text quite… Read more »