Thursday, October 09, 2014

The Roundup with PW


The Most of Bob Dylan: A hefty new edition of the musician's collected work, 'The Lyrics: Since 1962,' due from Simon & Schuster in November, is “the biggest, most expensive book" S&S has ever published, according to president and publisher Jonathan Karp.

Adobe Spyware Reveals the Price of DRM: Two independent reports claim that Adobe’s e-book software, “Digital Editions,” logs every document readers add to their local “library,” tracks what happens with those files, and then sends those logs back to the mother-ship, over the Internet, in the clear.

Can Pop-Ups Change Book Buying?: Starting tomorrow, Londoners passing through Cecil Court, in the heart of Soho’s second-hand book trade, will find a new arrival: a temporary “pop-up shop” devoted to the productions of just one publisher, Faber & Faber.

Ex-Aides' Claws Are Out: Leon Panetta joins Robert Gates and Hillary Clinton in putting out books critical of President Obama—and disparaging, tell-all books from former advisors to a sitting president reflect a change in Washington norms.

Emory Receives O’Connor Archive: A trove of Flannery O’Connor’s literary drafts, journals, letters and personal effects, long hidden from all but a few scholars, has been acquired by Emory University, and will soon be made available to the public, shedding new light on one of the most influential American writers of the postwar era.


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