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Barnes & Noble's credit card readers have been hacked in stores across the country; Amazon announces the Japanese Kindle; and Matthew Dickman calls on poetry lovers to send their favorite books to non-poetry readers during October; and other news.
Twitter is playing host to a Twitter Fiction Festival next month—submissions are open to anyone; Louis Vuitton has opened a literary salon in Paris; photographs have surfaced of James Franco’s screen adaptation of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying; and other news.
Cory Doctorow curated Humble E-book Bundle has garnered $847,000 as of yesterday; AppNewser explains how to publish an e-book using PressBooks; Deenah Vollmer's dispatch from Germany's Frankfurt Book Fair; and other news.
Cory Doctorow curated Humble E-book Bundle has garnered $847,000 as of yesterday; AppNewser explains how to publish an e-book using PressBooks; Deenah Vollmer's dispatch from Germany's Frankfurt Book Fair; and other news.
In the Authors Guild lawsuit, a judge ruled that libraries that offered books for scanning are protected by copyright's fair use doctrine; Sarah Marian Seltzer describes the experience of modeling for seven hundred Jane Austen enthusiasts; Halloween's approaching, and GalleyCat features a selection of favorite literary costumes.
Thanks to the accessibility of new digital tools offered by booksellers such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble, self-publishing is loosing its stigma and holds new promise for writers venturing out on their own.
Melville House wonders when publishers will speak out about Amazon; New York City's Algonquin Hotel announced that when it reopens this spring after a renovation, the famed Oak Room will be gone; E. B. White answers a charge levied by the ASPCA; and more
Online book club LibraryThing announced yesterday that it will revamp its site to comply with new requirements from Amazon. The retailer, which supplies LibraryThing and countless other affiliates with valuable book data, has begun insisting that its partners’ primary pages link solely to Amazon.
PEN American Center, the U.S. branch of the international literary and human rights group, announced yesterday that it has been awarded a twenty-five-thousand-dollar grant by Amazon. The money will support PEN’s Freedom to Write Program, which advocates on behalf of imprisoned or persecuted writers worldwide, as well as its Campaign for Core Freedoms, which opposes censorship in the United States.
More than six weeks after it remotely erased unlicensed copies of George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm from an undisclosed number of Kindle devices, Amazon is still trying to make amends. Last Thursday the company sent an e-mail to affected customers offering to either replace the deleted e-books or provide restitution in the form of a gift certificate or check for thirty dollars.
