Tag: publishing

• Lifeblood of reading

  Alan Jacobs gets to the crux of the ongoing Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit, which pits publishers against libraries in the quest to determine who has the right to distribute digital books: Whatever forces are arrayed against libraries are also arrayed against readers. But publishing conglomerates don’t care about readers; they only care about customers.…

  Apr 10, 2023

  # Alan Jacobs, books, ebooks, libraries, publishing, reading

• Barnes & Noble likes books again

  Ted Gioia on the remarkable rebound of Barnes & Noble: [CEO James Daunt] used the pandemic as an opportunity to “weed out the rubbish” in the stores. He asked employees in the outlets to take every book off the shelf, and re-evaluate whether it should stay. Every section of the store needed to be refreshed…

  Jan 26, 2023

  # Barnes and Noble, books, bookstores, business, movies, music, publishing

• Library ebooks are not free

  Those of you not in the library world probably don’t know about the contretemps currently roiling the industry. Library users don’t see how much ebooks cost for libraries. I order them as part of my job, and I’ve never quite gotten over the sticker shock of some costing as much as $90 each. And that’s…

  Aug 3, 2019

  # books, ebooks, Jessamyn West, libraries, Macmillan, OverDrive, publishing

• Perish Then Publish

  Breaking news: A new story (that’s actually an old, unfinished manuscript) from a revered (dead or feeble) author has been unearthed and prepared for publication this year. The title is Go Set A Watchm—I mean The Story of Kullervo by J.R.R. Tolkien. What’s with all this unfinished stuff being published posthumously? There’s probably a good…

  Aug 11, 2015

  # books, Go Set A Watchman, J.R.R. Tolkien, publishing, The Story of Kullervo