The Macmillan/Amazon face-off continues to escalate as writers begin encouraging their readers to look anywhere but Amazon to purchase their books.
You read about self-publishing’s seductive nature here at Books@Torontoist. On this very topic, Simon Crump ponders the thin line between validation and vanity in the Guardian.
Salinger’s celebrity death still has the literary world hopping. Even Gay Talese is reminiscing.
After celebrating Salinger’s death last week, Brent Easton Ellis had even more good news to deliver with the announcement of American Psycho, The Musical, which is exactly what it sounds like it is. As Ellis put it, “What could be more subversive fun than murderous bankers breaking into song?”
Check out the book industry’s recycling plan.
A dull day at the Frankfurt Fair in 1978 spawned the Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year. Read the longlist for this year’s entries, all 49 of them.
Do you like MacBook but want a more old-school look? Bookbook has a solution
Ever wondered what type you are? Pentagram is a font of knowledge.
