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Mona Simpson on the economics behind 'Casebook'

By Nancy Farghalli

June 06, 2014

Author Mona Simpson. — Gasper Tringale

We're asking authors about the numbers that inspire them.

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Khaled Hosseini on the economics behind 'And the Mountains Echoed'

By Nancy Farghalli

June 03, 2014

Author Khaled Hosseini. — Elena Seibert

We're asking authors about the numbers that inspire them.

POSTED IN: literature Books Khaled Hoseini

Amazon and the publisher

By Sabri Ben-Achour

May 23, 2014

This is an illustration from 2012 of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at a press conference in Santa Monica, California, where he unveiled the Kindle reading device. — David McNew/Getty Images

The battle between Amazon and publishers gets dirty, and there are casualties

POSTED IN: Amazon Books publishing

Navy sailors get an e-reader called 'NeRD'

May 15, 2014

Workers prepare boxes of Navy eReader Devices in a warehouse to ship to members of submarine crews. — Brittany Gonzalez/ FINDAWAYER

The Navy is giving submarine crews very expensive tablets that let sailors read pre-loaded books.

POSTED IN: navy military Kindle e-books

Why books always seem to have a discounted price

By Audrey Quinn

May 08, 2014

Paper books on a table are, of course, on sale. — Wikimedia Commons

A look at why and how retailers use cheap book prices as a selling point.

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A comic book pioneer adjusts to the digital age

May 07, 2014

Meltdown Comics and Collectibles — Tommy Andres/Marketplace

Live events and digital media as ways for comic book stores to survive.

POSTED IN: comics comic books graphic novels

In which Kai Ryssdal has to settle for $22.40

March 25, 2014

The new Amazon Kindle Fire tablet. — EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images

The individual results from Amazon's e-book price fixing settlement.

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Twitter invites writers to think beyond 140 characters

By Margarita Noriega

March 12, 2014

1845: A page from a mid nineteenth-century children's textbook with hand-tinted illustrations of a set of chairs, five doves, and a group of children. Each row of pictures is accompanied by a set of questions concentrating on simple arithmetic, but also asking such questions as 'Of what is the chair made ?' and 'What is the colour of these doves ?'

Twitter’s Fiction Festival is less about fiction and more about publishing.

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Meet Sylvia Day: The steamy baroness of book deals

February 18, 2014

A selection of Sylvia Day's novels.

Romance novelist Sylvia Day is making millions, and she's doing it her way.

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