Publishing NewsBarnes & Noble / bookstore earnings / Comic books / love letters / menstruation / Oscar voting4 Comments
B&N Still Searching For ‘Magic Bullet’ to Stop Sales Slide – It’s hard not to feel sorry for Barnes & Noble; they’re like the anti-Midas, stumbling from one bad scheme to another. Compared to last year’s third quarter, this year’s third quarter (which ended in late January) saw an 8% drop ... more >
Publishing Newse-readers / Emily Dickinson / gift guide / love letters / movie soundtracks / poetry / Tablets2 Comments
EMILY DICKINSON’S SINGULAR SCRAP POETRY – A lovely meditation on Emily Dickinson’s habit of writing poems and pieces of poems on all sorts of paper items, including chocolate wrappers (genius). There is still a good deal of curiosity and speculation around Dickinson, and thinking about the relationship between the writing and ... more >
Publishing NewsDIY project / love letters / love stories / Marie Antoinette / readers19 Comments
A manifesto for readers – You know, I’m all about a reader’s manifesto. Mine would probably be short, and it might be along the lines of ‘readers don’t owe anyone anything’ but this one is more, uh, complex. And, maybe complicated in a somewhat troublesome way. There’s a catchy bit ... more >
Publishing Newsactors / Comics / love letters / public library / Superman / writing7 Comments
‘I woke raging with desire for you’, Laurence Olivier told Vivien Leigh in unseen letters – The letters between Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh are going public for the very first time, and I’m thinking this story will make you want to read more of them. It always amazes me ... more >
Publishing NewsAuthors Guild / Book Reviews / copyright / digital access / digital publishing / disability / Fair Use / HathiTrust / Literary Criticism / love letters6 Comments
Fair Use Victory in HathiTrust Litigation – So this is the one about how the Author’s Guild sued the HathiTrust and lost. The HathiTrust — comprised of more than 80 academic and research institutions — created a digital library (the HathiTrust Digital Library) and then digitized more than ten million ... more >