Brillig

Once upon a time I used to take a free weekend afternoon and do a grand circuit of Manhattan bookstores, up 2nd Ave. maybe stopping at Black...

So it's not all that long ago that we were told what a big mistake it was for Borders not to have invested more in the e-book reader bus...

One topic which I covered in my 2012 review which I think deserves a little more attention is that of the global market for English language...

Some time back I did a blog post about the controversial and eventually overturned settlement between Google, the Authors Guild, the major p...

I should be reading a manuscript but it's late and I'm tired and it's not the right conditions for work reading. So instead, let...

So what do e-books mean for John Taylor and his bride, Suzie? Penguin is selling an e-book of The Bride Wore Black Leather for $12.99, and t...

Publishers Lunch Daily has a list of Barnes & Noble locations that have quietly closed at the end of 2011. The demise of their big and b...

I often tell people that the publishing industry has been dying for as long as I’ve been in the industry, on toward 25 years now.  Hence, th...

Wrote this email to someone I know who worked at a Florida Borders... Sorry didn't return your call, at a weekend long wedding with two ...

So on the tennis-related front, the #6 seed Robin Soderling withdrew from the US Open with an undisclosed illness, and his spot in the draw ...

So it's possible you've heard from different places, a blog somewhere or your editor trying to explain why your new offer is so low,...

There just isn't much in my life so far that's leaving a hole in my existence the way the Borders bankruptcy is. Several years ago ...

There's a custom in Jewish prayer to recite something called the "Mourner's Kaddish" at the end of every worship service. ...

In the evolving world of publishing, the roles of the author, agent and publisher are all having to evolve. What should our role as agents b...

So as Borders makes its way through the bankruptcy process, they've gotten the OK to terminate their relationship with Starbucks to have...

So I think it's safe to say that the main beneficiary of the ongoing disappearing act at Borders has been Amazon or other internet outle...

The Wall St. Journal had an article this week about the slow return of guns to the shelves at Wal-Mart. (no link, since hides behind their ...

One of the problems with modern agriculture is that of monoculture. A particular type of corn or banana or tomato might be wonderful but if ...