In Germany Digital Publishing is No Longer Satan, But Savior

In Germany Digital Publishing is No Longer Satan, But Savior At Berlin's E:PUBLISH conference last week, one felt German publishing had finally fully embraced digital as a means of helping the industry and literature thrive.

Ether for Authors: More Gatekeeping? Sisyphus Could Relate Self-publishing, despite its community's diversity of style and material, may need awards and other "gatekeeping" devices for coherence in the marketplace.

More News from PP: Gertrude Stein: The Making of a Children’s Book Gertrude Stein's children's book, The World is Round, is 75 this year and is being rereleased by Harper Design in a reproduction of the book’s first edition from 1939. Offered Without Comment: B&N’s "Literary" Magazines & the NYTimes The literary magazines at a Barnes & Noble include Tin House, The Paris Review, Mad Magazine and comics, while a New York Times renewal offers a year for $1099.

From the Archives: Will the Digital Era Produce as Influential a Book Critic? Marcel Reich-Ranicki was a living embodiment of so much of 20th century German intellectual life. Will the internet era ever produce as influential a critic?