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MobyLives
Everybody’s an Expert, or, 1,972 Amazon Reviewers Can’t Be Wrong
Alison Flood reports in the Guardian that a Harvard Business School study finds that “Amazon reviews are just as likely to give an accurate summary of a book’s quality as those of professional newspapers.” The study, “What Makes a Critic Tick? Connected Authors and the… Read more »
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MobyLives
France warns EU to watch out for Amazon’s “predatory pricing”
Frederic Mitterand, the outgoing culture minister of France, has written a letter to the EU’s Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia critical of the EU lawsuit against publishers (see the earlier MobyLives report), saying it could foster “predatory pricing” by Amazon. According to a report (in French)… Read more »
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Mar 31 2012
"I WOULD PREFER NOT TO" T-SHIRTS
May 18 2012
- The DSK Affair: One Year Later, a Shakespearean tragedy
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Winnie the Pooh house for sale
- Charlaine Harris drives a stake in the heart of her Southern Vampire series
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Is this the laziest book-related app of all time? 1
- Oxford Comma dance break 1
May 17 2012
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Hundreds of writers and scholars rally to save the NYPL
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More highlights of the DOJ lawsuit evidence show the battle is bigger than you think
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TONIGHT: Jean-Christophe Valtat in conversation with Laura Miller at BookCourt
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How to kill a book club 3
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RIP: Angelica Garnett
May 16 2012
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The new copyright agreement you don't know about
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Judge comes down hard on motion to dismiss class-action lawsuit against Apple and publishers over ebook pricing 2
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Hail & Farewell: Carlos Fuentes
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Real page-churners 1
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Pinch Pulitzer goes to David Foster Wallace
May 15 2012
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The problem with "truthiness" highlighted as David Sedaris report called into question 3
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Newly released court docs reveal Penguin CEO wanted to "make Random House hurt" for not joining fight against Amazon
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Famed English-language bookshop in Paris to close 1
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What (really) happens to your eReader when you die?
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John Updike's home will become a museum
May 14 2012
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Writer attacked on book tour
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Amazon's anti-library grows with Harry Potter deal
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt --- publisher of giants and front for Amazon --- declares bankruptcy 1
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Our child who made art in heaven 4
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The curse of being profiled in The New Yorker 1
May 11 2012
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Agents group joins the battle vs DOJ
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Reinventing libraries: ideas good and terrible 2
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The New York Times shows Tumblr its basement
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What we talk about when we talk about book covers
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BOOK TRAILER: Aurorarama
May 10 2012
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The killer of killer apps
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Sara Nelson joins Amazon
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St. Patrick of Armagh, deliver me from writing 2
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Steam punk fests on the rise, and our J.C. Valtat with them
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New 52 books hitting stores this week
May 09 2012
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"Can someone save criticism from The Atlantic?"
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Colbert's children's book releases same day Maurice Sendak dies
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Characters from novels can influence real-life behaviour
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Judge's Wizard of Oz analogy too much for Government censors
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Fodor's revamping travel book apps
May 08 2012
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Google asks judge if it can have fun and beat up authors one at a time instead of having to face them as a group where they actually have a chance, judge says probably not 1
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Did Apple kill the publishing App dream?
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Rare book found in oldest library in US South
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Writers: Don't sleep 1
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The Pulitzer Prize, take two
May 07 2012
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Anthology of Taliban poets said to be "giving voice to terrorists" 1
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As Kindle Fire sales slump, analysts wonder what's next?
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Bookstore book blogs: Where the smart author profile has gone
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Cityscapes made from old schoolbooks
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VIDEO: When book promotion goes wrong...
Day in Review
Seven bad habits of successful authors
How fiction “tricks” readers out of their prejudices
The only bookstore that ever won a Tony Award
Federal judge requires robber to submit book reports
Things journalists do that annoy the hell out of publicists
Readers suing Greg Mortenson over Three Cups of Tea fibs take case to federal appeals court
Ten Feminist Poets You Should Know
“Who buys their mother poorly written S&M porn for Mother’s Day?” Er, lots of people
