Melville House Books

On Saturday, Amazon started doing something it tried mightily to avoid: collecting sales tax in America’s most populous state. As the Los Angeles Times reports, California officials say that Amazon… Read more »

Libraries can’t seem to catch a break on the problem of ebook access and pricing. Just last week, according to Christopher Harris in American Libraries, Hachette was thinking of raising their… Read more »

There’s no point in pussyfooting around it: Friday was a terrible day for the academy. Emory University announced that it would eliminate three departments, close down its journalism degree program,… Read more »

I feel the need to begin this post by saying that, contrary to what I assumed when I first glanced at this story on my neighborhood blog, Gowanus Your Face Off,… Read more »