Melville House Books

In today’s installment for her Melville House Live Book Project, reporter Kari Lydersen reports on a startling new development …. Chicago, January 14, 2009 — In June 1998 the city… Read more »

As the fighting in Gaza escalates, and the Israeli Army is accused of dropping white phosphorus on the population in direct contravention of international law, angry civilians around the world… 4 / Read more »

In a decision expected to have a major impact on online retailing, a New York State Supreme Court judge has approved a new state tax that’s being called the “Amazon… 5 / Read more »

According to a report in the Atlanta Journal Constitution a major portion of Martin Luther King, Jr,’s letters will be available to the public on-line at the Robert W. Woodruff… Read more »

iPhone this, iPhone that —everyone in publishing is captivated by their new iPhones lately, and by the idea that this — this! — is the new book, and they can’t… Read more »

Has six years of hard work, after years of depressing survey results, finally paid off? Has someone finally found a way to reverse one of our most depressing trends? The… Read more »