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The Rumpus Interview with Elisabeth Egan

  • Yvonne Dutchover
  • November 13, 2015
Elisabeth Egan discusses her debut novel, A Window Opens, life as a book lover, workplace jargon, and the question we should ask ourselves in place of can we “have it all”.
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Digital World, Digital Library

  • Mary Allen
  • October 29, 2015
Why do we need physical libraries in the age of Wikipedia? What does a library look like in the digital age? The New York Review of Books explains how librarians…
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Unlocking the eBook

  • Michelle Vider
  • October 5, 2015
Craig Mod writes for Aeon on ebooks’ technological stagnation: …it was a stark reminder that pliancy of media invites experimentation. When media is too locked down, too rigid, when it’s…
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Why Choose?

  • Mary Allen
  • October 1, 2015
The birth of the ebook has been a source of fear among literary consumers for years now, but it seem, based on current sales trends, print is making a comeback.…
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Print Soldiers On as Digital Sales Slump

  • Ian MacAllen
  • September 28, 2015
Ebook sales have fallen 10 percent in the first five months of 2015. The surge of electronic books between 2008 and 2010 coupled with the stress of economic depression on…
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A Look Back at Amazon’s Twenty Years

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • September 9, 2015
Publisher’s Weekly has a retrospective on Amazon.com’s 20 years of selling books, DVDs, electronics, and everything else. The article cites the introduction of the Kindle and the Kindle e-bookstore as Amazon’s…
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College Bookstores and Digital Textbooks

  • Ian MacAllen
  • August 14, 2015
Student textbooks are a big moneymaker for college bookstores. But as textbooks go digital, college bookstores are under threat as publishers gain more power over the means of distribution of the textbooks. Forbes takes…
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Ebooks Are Changing How Writers Write

  • Ian MacAllen
  • August 12, 2015
The rise in popularity of e-books are changing how readers consume books. Readers now have short attention spans, and that is leading to writers adopting new styles. The Guardian takes…
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Publishers Earn More than Authors on E-Book Sales

  • Ian MacAllen
  • July 15, 2015
Authors are earning less on e-books than on physical ones, and the villain isn’t necessarily Amazon. According to the Author’s Guild, a professional organization for writers, publishers are now taking…
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The Rumpus Interview with Joshua Cohen

  • Ben Bush
  • July 3, 2015
Novelist Joshua Cohen gives an interview, digital, about his new novel, paper, but also digital, about the Internet, digital, subsuming the novel, even his novel, best on paper, Book of Numbers.
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Word of the Day: Nesh

  • Sara Menuck
  • May 20, 2015
(n.); soft, delicate, tender; from the Old English hnesce (“soft in texture”) or Gothic hnasqus (“tender; soft”) “Over the years, I’ve gone back and forth over the merits of print…
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Reviewing the Absurd

  • Ian MacAllen
  • April 22, 2015
Wired is launching a book review section—of absurd self-published titles. Jason Kehe will in fact be judging books by their cover, selecting the books he reviews for the regular column…
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