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By now most of you reading this blog probably know about the latest dust-up over ebook prices. For those of you who haven’t been following the news, here’s a brief synopsis followed by some thoughts on the history of book pricing. A couple of weeks ago officials at Macmillan, one of the largest global book [...]
By the looks of things, 2009 is shaping up to be the year for giving the gift of books…e-books, that is. Take the Amazon Kindle, for instance. Amazon.com is touting the device on its homepage as its “#1 bestselling, #1 most wished for, and #1 most gifted [is that really a verb?] product.” Sales surely [...]
On Wednesday the LA Times book blog “Jacket Copy” made a gruesome discovery — a little-known (and hopefully long defunct) practice called anthropodermic bibliopegy, or the binding of books in human flesh. Yes, really. The story actually broke on The International Journal of the Book blog. There, Dr. Margaret Zeegers reported that she “had never [...]
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