June 28, 2013

On Tuesday, the embattled baby changing station Barnes & Noble released its quarterly report and announced that it would no longer produce the Zune Nook tablet in house. And, while… Read more »

Booksellers & bookselling

Ask a bookseller---Book Court's Bonnie Chau — Melville House
Customer threatens Northshire Bookstore for displaying the Qur’an — Kait Howard
Isis Books & Gifts changes signage, dodges blind wrath of ignorant brick-throwers — Simon Reichley
Barnes & Noble takes penultimate step to exiting Queens — Liam O'Brien

Chicago Sun-Times cuts book coverage

Kirsten Reach

The Chicago Sun-Times announced it will no longer run the Sunday Show section and its book pages. On July 14, the entertainment stories will be folded into the paper’s Splash!… Read more »

Re-enter READER, with THE LEGACY OF SHAKESPEARE dead in her arms: rewriting Shakespeare for the 400th anniversary of his death

In reaction to yesterday’s news that The Hogarth Shakespeare programme will print a series of novels reimagining the plays of Shakespeare, published in time for the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, below… Read more »

A century later, has E.M. Forster’s happier year finally arrived?

Christopher King

In the opening scene of E.M. Forster’s novel Maurice, an adolescent Maurice Hall takes a long walk with his prep school teacher, Mr. Ducie, to learn about the mysteries of… Read more »

Don’t miss Melville House at the American Library Association Conference in Chicago this weekend!

Claire Kelley

VISIT US IN BOOTH #2334 Saturday, June 29 Wolf Haas Reading / Signing (click on the link to add to your ALA Scheduler) 11:00am – 11:50am LIVE @ your library… Read more »

Melville House Books

One reason Barnes & Noble is struggling: it’s carrying fewer titles

Alex Shephard