Comedian Daniel Tosh holds his book burnings every Tuesday, but thought that he needs to be “greener” in his desire to rid the world of books and push people back to watching his show on Comedy Central.
He also suggests a way that your local governments could make a little money back. Since we now
It sounds like Wylie is pouncing on the opportunity made available by Amazon’s announcement of its new Kindle to make a finer point on his battle over e-book digital rights.
Coupled with Kindle CEO Bezos’ prediction that e-books will outpace paperbacks by 2012, Wylie is now threatening to expand his negotiations from a 20-book deal
As a literature lover, I spied this story in the Financial Times: according to the latest news on the e-book front, HarperCollins UK is joining Random House in its protest over the deal between literary agent Andrew Wylie and Amazon.com to create electronic versions of 20 classics.
Wylie’s classic collection includes Lolita, Invisible Man