Publishing is saddled with this terrible reputation for being reactionary and Luddite, our denizens known largely for caviling against technology and the new-fangled. It is perverse, truly perverse since publishing is in fact at the center of two major social revolutions that dramatically disrupted the status quo ante.

The first,...

This coming spring, at the Metropolitan Opera House, American Ballet Theatre will be celebrating its seventieth anniversary season. ABT is well known today as a cultural treasure, one of the great dance companies of the world. Since its inception, it has been acclaimed for its brilliant dancers and bold...

This morning Book Expo America, the largest book convention in the US, and one of the largest in the world, announced that they'd dropped plans to have the exhibits open on Tuesday, the day before the convention opens. (Already the convention had been changed from its customary Friday-Sunday,...