Amazon preorders of Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments have been shipped out to readers ahead of schedule. By mistake. A handful of reviews appeared on NPR, The Washington Post, and The New York Times yesterday even though there was supposed to be a strict embargo on the novel before its September 10th release date. And some readers are rushing to Twitter and Instagram to show off the copies they’ve received early. Did anybody else get the new @MargaretAtwood book THE TESTAMENTS sent to them a week early? I thought they’d just changed the date but checking it now it looks like …
The Testaments, the highly-anticipated sequel to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale earned its spot on the Booker Prize list earlier this week. And despite the fact that The Testaments is going to get a 500,000 copy first print run, there’s been a strict embargo up until now. However, a flurry of reviews came out just last night. So here at Bookstr, we’re breaking down everything we know about The Testaments right here. Image via BBc First off, we know the sequel is set fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale. The original The Handmaid’s Tale is set in a near-future New …
In the first interview since the HBO series ended, David Benioff and DB Weiss joked about some of the blunders in season eight. https://twitter.com/irisvicencio/status/1125299314115239936 David Benioff jokingly compared the infamous coffee cup blunder to a Persian rug: In Persian rugs it’s tradition that you make a little mistake when making the rug, because only God can do anything perfect. That’s why I put the coffee cup there. It was a conscious, concerted statement of our imperfection. Benioff admitted the mistake did embarrass them both: We were concentrating so much on Daenerys and Jon Snow that we just didn’t see …
In August, we reported that seven U.S. publishers had filed a lawsuits against Audible, claiming the popular audiobook platform’s new captions program violates copyright law. Audible Captions scrolls a few words of AI-generated transcription to accompany an audiobook’s narration. In effect, Captions users would have access to the audiobook’s text in a roundabout way without having to purchase a copy of the e-book. However, the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in New York “didn’t give permission to publish a text version of their titles to Audible, noting that the text rights require a separate agreement.” Image via …
Previous winners of the prestigious Booker Prize, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie, join four other exciting authors on the Booker Prize shortlist this year. Images via Amazon Atwood won the prize in 2000 for The Blind Assassin, and she’s back in contention for her much-anticipated sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale. Her latest book, The Testaments, is set to release next week, and it’s already turning quite a few heads. Peter Florence, chair of this year’s judges and one of the few people to have read The Testaments, described the book as “a savage and beautiful novel that speaks to us today with …
