Melville House Books

We’ve written before about how some European countries benefit from what’s generally known as a “net pricing” deal — that is, a rule that prohibits significant discounting of book prices,… Read more »

This is where the amateurs take their seats at the back. Five-million dollars is the estimate put on a single illuminated page from the Shahnamah of Shah Tahmasp of Persia.… 2 / Read more »

Last year geneticist Craig Venter made news when, according to Forbes, he “announced that he and a team at his eponymous institute have created a genetic code synthetically and inserted… Read more »

Since starting my very first job in publishing in the mid 2000s, the thing that’s always left me a bit dumbstruck when I think about it is how crazy it… Read more »

Twitter-sourced Japan Charity book published in one week Amanda Hocking signs four book deal with St. Martin’s Lawrence Ferlinghetti is 92! Turkish court censors journalist The Economist’s take on Borders Nook… Read more »