Melville House Books

As one commentator puts it, “This is a really neat project that shouldn’t have to exist”:  The Online Newstand Project. According to the project’s website, “The goal of the Online… Read more »

It’s annoying enough to see a moniker as bad as the “Kindle Single” find a lasting place in the bibliographic lexicon, but it’s far more frustrating to find it understood… 1 / Read more »

Move over, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty; the newest fairy tale heroine is none other than the Turnip Princess. Five hundred previously unknown Bavarian fairy tales — including “The Turnip Princess,”… 1 / Read more »

It was recently revealed in an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education that tough-guy novelist  Cormac McCarthy (Blood Meridian, No country for Old Men) is a grammar nerd. And… 2 / Read more »

Smashwords calls for authors and customers to protest PayPal censorship 25 reasons why books are here to stay Brooklyn Public Library gets an Espresso Book Machine Jonathan Swift’s to-do list… Read more »