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Polling the Reads
I don’t normally like much of anything Amazon does, but this map of the sales of “red” and “blue” non-fiction books is cool. Unfortunately, it’s also kind of sad. And also kind of terrifying to see...
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Assent to the Dissent of the Day
A reader of Andrew Sullivan’s “The Dish” urges Sullivan to dump Amazon and link to indie bookstores like the one where s/he works: As the fine arts book buyer and assistant manager for an independent...
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Fiction Opponent and Advocate of the Day
Opponent: Today’s copyright laws, changing technology, market pressures and, as usual, Amazon. Advocate: Scott Turow, who explains in the New York Times this morning how today’s copyright laws,...
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Fiction Advocate of the Day
It’s science — the magazine, and the method. Emanuele Castano and David Comer Kidd from the New School for Social Research published a study in this month’s Science magazine showing the...
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Francophony
You have to admire one thing about James Franco’s new book, which comes out today: It has a certain thematic unity. Franco is a hack-of-all trades pretending to be a writer. Amazon is a...
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You Oughta Read This
Chris Jackson co-founded the bookstore McNally Jackson, edited Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, and is making the stupidly white world of literary publishing a little more diverse: “The...
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How Amazon Makes Its Money
MobyLives, a must-read for anyone curious about the changes taking place in publishing, has an excellent post today about the cost of publishing ebooks. What’s more, today’s story led me to an earlier...
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