Archive Dive

The year is 2007, and everything is about to change: the first iPhone has just hit the streets; people have been lining up at Apple stores for eons to get their hands on this pocket-sized slice of the future. In our July 9, 2007, issue, we ran a story called “Publishers Ponder Putting E-books on the iPhone,” in which we noted that “digital publishing professionals... said it’s inevitable that branded e-books—likely delivered through an iTunes-like proprietary service... will join the multimedia content supported by the iPhone.” Indeed they would, first from players such as Amazon, and then through Apple’s own iBooks store. And, of course, back then the iPhone was competing in a very different device landscape: our story wondered if the iPhone would “prove more attractive to e-book fans than, say, the Sony Reader?” Read the whole piece.

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Tip Sheet

Kyle Arnold, author of The Divine Madness of Philip K. Dick (Oxford Univ.), explores whether the writer was a madman or a mystic.

Children’s Bookshelf

The inside scoop on how author and artist Christopher Myers (son of Walter Dean Myers) launched a new imprint, Make Me a World, at Random House Children’s Books.

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Blogs

ShelfTalker

The book-a-day reading challenge continues: join up and see whether you’ve got what it takes.

Podcasts

Week Ahead

PW senior writer Andrew Albanese expands on our fall audio announcements feature, highlighting the continued growth of digital audiobooks—and a stat that shows just how quickly analog formats are disappearing from the audiobook market.

More to Come

Novelist Sari Wilson and cartoonist Josh Neufeld, her husband, talk about Flashed: Sudden Stories in Comics and Prose (Pressgang), a new anthology of comics and short prose.

PW Radio

Darryl McDaniels—DMC of Run-DMC—discusses his memoir, 10 Ways Not to Commit Suicide (Amistad). PW editorial director Jim Milliot gives a rundown of book sales for the first half of 2016.

The most-read review on publishersweekly.com last week was, once again, The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley (HMH).