Melville House Books

The just–published The Literary Spy: The Ultimate Source for Quotations on Espionage and Intelligence, is “the perfect gift for the shadowy someone in your life,” says Alex Beam in his… Read more »

“Over the past decade, as the bookstore market has become increasingly competitive, many independent bookstores began to delve into sidelines in an effort to broaden their stores’ appeal and to… Read more »

John Tebbel, the former head of New York University’s journalism department and an author whose best–known work was the four–volume A History of Book Publishing in the United States, died… Read more »

A judge in Clearwater, Florida has postponed a trial scheduled to decide whether a will left by Jack Kerouac’s mother, Gabrielle Kerouac, was forged. As a report in the Tampa… Read more »

“At a time when publishers are fixated on writers who can sell 500,000 copies or more,” Drenka Willen “publishes books in translation, where a title that sells 10,000 copies is… Read more »

In the wake of Austrian Elfriede Jelinek’s winning of the Nobel Prize, Ian Traynor, in this Guardian story, notes that she is also at the center of a controversy in… Read more »

Now that Google has launched its “Google Print” program to set up a searchable book database with an unveiling at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Amazon.com has intensified its efforts to… Read more »

Is Simon & Schuster up for sale? A New York Post report by Erica Copulsky and Tim Arango says some recent maneuvers by parent company Viacom make it seem possible,… Read more »