GalleyCat expanded today, sharing its digital space with mediabistro.com's thirteenth blog, eBookNewser. Our digitally obsessed sibling will cover eBooks, digital reading devices, publishing technology, smartphone reading applications, digital self-publishing, and the rapidly evolving future of...

Today is the deadline for voluntary buyouts at the NY Times, and reportedly, two business reporters and published authors will accept.

The first was Alex Berenson, a reporter who has covered everything from the war in Iraq to disaster in New Orleans. He is also the author of three spy novels, including "The Silent Man." His next book is "The Midnight House," a novel arriving in stores in early February. The second journalist and author to accept a buyout is Louis Uchitelle (pictured, via). In 2006, he published "The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences" with Random House. He has reported for the NY Times since...

Last week GalleyCat readers fiercely debated Twitter's usefulness as a bookselling tool. Following an online conversation about Electric Literature's Twitter experiment, our readers left these important thoughts...

Guy L. Gonzalez wrote: "Twitter can certainly sell books, but if...

From Ben: My MPhil thesis was on Raymond Williams, and I touched upon his decision to move from working in Adult Education (aka workers education) to becoming a university professor. This was partly an affirmative decision following the rise in working class intake into the universities in the early '60s, but also a result of his disenchantment with a workers' education movement which had been coopted. It seems to me, if anything, the pendulum is swinging in the opposite direction now. To understand the situation now, I think it's important to revisit the history of worker's education in Britain (which I only understand sketchily) - it seems that the formative event was the Ruskin Strike...

You may have noticed a brand new tab on top of GalleyCat--linking to eBookNewser, GalleyCat's digitally obsessed sibling. This site will cover eBooks, digital reading devices, publishing technology, smartphone reading applications, digital self-publishing, and the rapidly evolving future of...

In April 2011, Little, Brown will publish David Foster Wallace's final novel, an unfinished manuscript the author called the "The Pale King." For your holiday-reading pleasure, The New Yorker published another excerpt from this unfinished work.

Here's an excerpt:...

[Some amazing links here and some very important points. To be digested, slowly, like ideas passing through all four stomachs of a cow. More anon]. Jason: An online university strikes me as a great idea, although "proletarian" I assume is the idea, not a proposed title. My limited understanding of this is that online universities, although claiming to offer "courses" and "lessons", don't actually do this. They don't have any sort of institutional substance. They are more geared towards acquiring knowledge and skills, rather than a degree. Perhaps I haven't followed the full history of your blog on this topic, and not living or working in the UK means I don't have any real interest in the...

One British newspaper sparked Internet chatter over the weekend, publishing rumors that Amazon.com is scouting locations for a bricks-and-mortar location in the UK. An Amazon spokesperson promptly denied the rumors. Here are the intriguing rumors, from the Sunday Times: "Property landlords said...

We've mentioned a few instances this year where we've preferred the British book jacket of a particular title to its American counterpart, but in this case the opposite is true. From the moment we saw the cover to Empire in Black and Gold, the first volume in Adrian...