Search Results by tag: Amazon

Obama becomes publishing world “divider”

U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama is at the center of a burgeoning publishing world brouhaha, with Barnes & Noble on one side and Amazon.com on the other. According to the Associated Press: Chelsea Green Publishing, ... Read More »

August 20, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Partisan publishing

By Stuart Woods

Slate columnist Timothy Noah takes on a new book by right-wing journalist Jerome R. Corsi, calling it an unambiguous smear-job against presidential hopeful Barack Obama. The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, ... Read More »

August 15, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Bookmarks: Forgery memoir was true, libraries need money, and past editors protest LATBR folding

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: A true memoir about a fraudulent life (The New York Times) Alberta libraries push for cash (Calgary Herald) Past editors of the Los Angeles Times Book Review protest folding (Editor & Publisher) ... Read More »

July 24, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news, Libraries

Cellist vs. Cellist

By Scott MacDonald

Seems there's a bit of controversy brewing around Steven Galloway's novel The Cellist of Sarajevo, which was published a few months back by Knopf Canada. (Read Q&Q's review here.) According to the CBC, the real-life ... Read More »

July 18, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Shrink rap

By Sara Forsyth

Raj Persaud, Britain's celebrity psychiatrist and media darling, is on trial for what the Guardian is calling "blatant cribs" in his 2003 book From the Edge of the Couch. Persaud is accused of passing off ... Read More »

June 18, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Amazon sued, writers stewed, library employee accused

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Maine owner of POD company sues Amazon (Bangor News) Writers and booze “ like peanut butter and jam? (Amherst Bulletin) Library employee accused of embezzling (Chicago Tribune) Methodist ministers attempt to block ... Read More »

May 26, 2008 | Filed under: Book links, Libraries

Is criticism dead?

By Scott MacDonald

Salon's two chief literary critics, Laura Miller and Louis Bayard, have posted a lengthy discussion about the state of literary criticism in North America, which begins with the following question: in the age of blogging, ... Read More »

May 23, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

BookMooch making a killing

By Scott MacDonald

We've linked to stories about BookMooch “ a website that allows book lovers to swap books free of charge “ before, but here's a more in-depth look at the site and its creator, the young ... Read More »

April 22, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Amazon says deep discounts are just unfair

By Nathan Whitlock

Here's a twist: Amazon UK is angry at British publishers for “ wait for it “ applying deep online discounts to their books. From The Times: An online price war for books has broken out, ... Read More »

April 7, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Amazon demands print-on-demand exclusivity

By Nathan Whitlock

From The Wall Street Journal: Amazon.com Inc., flexing its muscles as a major book retailer, notified publishers who print books on demand that they will have to use its on-demand printing facilities if they want ... Read More »

March 31, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

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