The morning after
Amazon has still not restored the Macmillan print books or ebooks to their inventory, so though it is being widely reported that Amazon has conceded, their boycott of Macmillan books and authors...
View ArticleDay 5 of Amazon’s boycott of Macmillan books (and authors)
This is day 5 of Amazon’s boycott of Macmillan print books and ebooks. (See my two previous blog posts if you are still catching up.) There has been no statement from Amazon other than Sunday’s...
View ArticleWill Amazon boycott HarperCollins’ books next?
According to this Galleycat report, Rupert Murdoch today “hinted that HarperCollins will join Macmillan in negotiating higher eBook prices. All Things Digital reporter Peter Kafka has been...
View ArticleBreaking news: Hachette joins Macmillan, Justice Dept. still doesn’t like the...
Two pieces of breaking news tonight: Hachette joins Macmillan David Young, the CEO of Hachette Book Group, announced that Hachette is adopting the agency model for ebook pricing. Here’s the GalleyCat...
View ArticleMore breaking news: Amazon is selling Macmillan print books again
It looks like Amazon has begun to restore Macmillan print books–but not Kindle ebooks– to their website. All week I’ve been spot-checking various titles throughout the day, and when I last checked at...
View ArticleAmazon threatens publishers again
This morning brings news (from an article in the New York Times and a blog post in MobyLives) that Amazon “has threatened to stop directly selling the books of some publishers online unless they agree...
View ArticleE-books and the future of publishing, with puppets
This video, “Opposing Voices in Digital Publishing,” was created by the digital publishing team at Tyndale House Publishers, and I found it through this TeleRead post.
View ArticleA comparison of how the new style manuals treat tech words
Though two of the most influential style manuals (Chicago and AP) recently changed from “Web site” to “website,” they still differ in their treatment of other tech words, which won’t be a surprise to...
View ArticleLying to children about the past
I reviewed A Birthday Cake for George Washington, the controversial children’s picture book about slavery, for the Seattle Review of Books— read it here:...
View ArticleMy talk about fact-checking
The Editors Guild recorded my talk about fact-checking last night and posted it to their YouTube channel, so you can watch it here: Here’s a link to the PDF handout I prepared and refer to in my talk,...
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