Race-Conscious Casting and the Erasure of the Black Past in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton – A friend sent this article to me a while ago, and now that I’ve had a chance to read it, I’m really curious to hear from people who have seen the musical “Hamilton” about Lyra Monteiro’s argument ... more >
Used eBook Site Tom Kabinet Wins 3 Week Stay of Execution – If you’ve been following the case of the Dutch ebook reseller Tom Kabinet, it just got more interesting. Publishers filed a September appeal to the July decision that the business was not violating any Dutch copyright laws by ... more >
S&S Expands Library E-book Lending – Simon and Schuster will now be providing both front and backlist books to all libraries. This is a change over their previous policy, which was to allow only those libraries that were part of it’s “Buy it Now” program, where the borrower would have ... more >
The Rise of the Seven-Figure Advance – This is a pretty interesting trend, because it seems to point to both the importance of the so-called “big books” for traditional publishing, and the competition for those books, which suggests that publishers are not finding a lot of material they feel is ... more >
New Jersey Passes New Reader Privacy Act, Expanding Laws to Cover eBooks – New Jersey just became the third US state (along with California and Arizona) to pass a law that extends library patron privacy to digital books. I’m not sure how much attention those in the US paid to ... more >
Apple in $400m settlement over e-book price fixing – It seems that it’s either feast or famine in the news arena, and this week it’s feast, so I’ve had to pick and choose which stories to highlight today. First up, the terms of Apple’s proposed settlement in the collusion case ... more >