Without a doubt, Finnegans Wakeis one of the least read and least understood of all modern classics.  Told in an extraordinarily idiosyncratic language that many critics believe is meant to recreate the experience of sleep and dreams, it seems likely… Read More

By relying on translators to guide him, Naveen Kishore turned India’s Seagull Books into a major player in the West. By Amanda DeMarco “Seagull is bizarrely daring and ambitious,” says Katy Derbyshire, a well-regarded translator from the German and proprietor… Read More

93-year-old publishing attorney and author Martin Levin reflects on 60 years of book fairs, starting with the American Booksellers Association meeting in 1950. By Martin Levin In a career that spans six decades, and still counting, I have found that… Read More

Ted Hill, President, THA Consulting; Timothy Griswold, Vice President Sales and E-Retail Sales, Springer; Adam Lerner, President, Lerner Publishing Co.; Deborah Forte, President, Scholastic Media; Mike Rosiak, Lead Content Architect, Wolters Kluwer Health Hill, moderator: cross platform publishing is hard… Read More

With multinational companies chipping away at the edges of honesty, it’s easy to forget the simple things sometimes. Make no mistake – anti-competitive (aka “Agency”) pricing is illegal in Australia. Darryl Adams recently pointed this out on his blog Oz-e-Books… Read More

Editor’s Note: we covered the beginning of  this story on December 17 here. PB… Regular readers will remember Simon Smithson and Will Entrekin and their crazy self-publishing ebook experiment. Their goal was to sell a whopping 1.1m copies of Read More

One of the best surprises I got this Christmas was the gift of a used iPod Touch by my sister-in-law. She belongs to an iPhone family, and they’ve gotten so many iPhones over the course of the last few years… Read More

Reality TV star Nicole Polizzi, aka “Snooki,” has a new novel coming out tomorrow. The book is called A Shore Thing… from Simon and Schuster, and costs $10.99 in the Kindle store. The story takes place at, go figure, Read More

Digital Book World presents a weekly round-up of some of the most interesting news, commentary and tweets related to publishing that you may have missed, from all over the digital book world: The Future of Reading and Writing is Collaborative… Read More

“Hi everyone, and thanks for tuning in! Welcome to another episode of Publishing Hypocrisy … the game where we show both faces of the bookselling industry!” “Our first contestant tonight – is Jane from Melbourne! Hi Jane.” [Applause…] Read More

After obliquely addressing the matter in his last few posts about whether American publishers can get in on the European English-language e-book market, publishing consultant Mike Shatzkin’s latest blog post takes a direct look at the problems of territorial restrictions… Read More