Category: words

“BookReels, a dedicated interactive website that allows publishers and authors to post multimedia visuals ranging from animated book covers to trailers, is now available for readers as a unique way to preview and browse books.”

“The creation of a full-text searchable database of millions of books is a fair use of copyrighted works, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, saying it also is permissible to distribute the books in alternative forms to people with reading disabilities.”

“The principal’s complaints included that Little Brother endorsed hacker culture and questioned authority, according to Doctorow” – who proceeded to have the book sent directly to students and to make it available for free download.

Shaun Usher was a freelance copywriter when a set of assignments for a client, a stationery retailer, gave him the idea to start Letters of Note.

“Did I really almost drift away, down that anaemic, intellectual path where storytelling is considered vulgar and characters a stain on the purity of a sentence? Dear Lord – almost.”

“We know that the playwright repeatedly made forays into the essays to seize upon things he thought he could use.”

“The best books fall into our hands serendipitously, and lead to conversation, debate, self-reflection, procrastination, even escapism.”

Independent bookshops have moved to profit from the situation, after the American Booksellers Association produced two digital banners reading “Thanks, Amazon, the indies will take it from here”, “Independent bookstores sell books from all publishers. Always”, or “Pre-order and buy Hachette titles today”.

“A representative from Hachette denied that the layoffs [of 28 staffers] were in any way connected to its dispute with Amazon.”

“Amazon.com Inc.’s sales contracts with some of the world’s biggest publishers, Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins, are next up for renewal, signaling that skirmishes over e-book pricing are set to spread.”