Melville House Books

On Monday, The New York Times’ Bits blog had an illuminating insight into one of the minds that created the Amazon Kindle. Indeed, the fate of the book was a common… Read more »

It seems the slow-motion implosion of San Francisco based science fiction publisher Night Shade Books will continue this week unabated, and likely for weeks to come. Night Shade is known… Read more »

We’ve been counting down the days to the April 18th launch of the Digital Public Library of America, and in the New York Review of Books last week, Robert Darnton, director of… Read more »

Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda’s remains were exhumed this week, four decades after his death. As we reported in February, the exhumation was approved by Judge Mario Carroza on a request… Read more »