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In the wake of the now infamous Mike Daisey incident on This American Life, other writers operating in the grey area between fact and fiction are finding their work under the magnifying glass. On the radio segment, Daisey recounted incidents drawn from his performance piece ”The…
The Guardian reported yesterday that the German state Bavaria is supporting the publication of a new version of Mein Kampf. With copyright ownership expiring in 2015, it appears the state is prepared to lift its ban on Hitler’s infamous book as a way of ensuring the reissue contains…
We’ve been keeping a close watch on the case between the Department of Justice and five of the Big Six Publishers. If you’re after more context than the latest headline, here’s a roundup of our complete coverage, listed in chronological order as the news broke.…
Among all the seedy details contained in the Department of Justice’s suit against Apple and five of the six largest U.S. trade publishers, one thing stands out: at a time when many feared the rise of Amazon as a mega e-bookseller, the big publishers were…
What to do when the guest of honor does not always behave so honorably? The London Book Fair faces this question and others just like it by welcoming China as this year’s high-profile guest of honor. Criticism of the LBF has been steady for more than…
The issue of manipulating the unpublished work of dead writers has reared its head again — MobyLives last week noted the addition of scenes in the paperback release of David Foster Wallace’s posthumous (i.e., unfinished) novel The Pale King that hadn’t been in the hardcover release.…
An interesting side note to the ongoing controversy over Mike Daisey’s monologue about Apple, “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs”: In what Jack Shafer calls a fresh “fabulist excuse,” Daisey once credited Amazon founder Jeff Bezos with teaching him how to deceive reporters.…
There’s a cautionary tale this week from India, which has been experiencing a publishing boom for a decade now. As detailed in this Spectator report of late last year: … dynamic economic growth has combined an increasingly vocal, upwardly mobile middle class readership with a…
In a remarkable post on the New York Times’ Bits blog, technology reporter David Streitfeld — whose beat includes Amazon.com — talks to librarian Nancy Pearl about the reaction to her decision to publish with Amazon … but not without some piercing commentary, first, about…
Xuedan Wang, represented by the firm Outten & Golden, has filed a suit against The Hearst Corporation claiming the company owes wages to their unpaid interns. Wang claims that she worked 40-55 unpaid hours weekly while interning at Harper’s Bazaar. The lawsuit “could shake the publishing industry” writes…