January 10, 2014

Barnes & Noble has had quite a week. On Tuesday, the embattled chocolatier shuttered its flagship location on 18th Street and Fifth Avenue. On Wednesday, the struggling public restroom named Michael… 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

Mein Kampf is a surprise ebook bestseller

Zeljka Marosevic

According to the website Vocativ.com, the ebook of Mein Kampf is so in-demand that it qualifies as a bestseller in numerous ebook catergories, and free versions have been downloaded over… Read more »

Mary Shelley’s unpublished letters reveal plumed headdress, humor, sappy stuff about her kid

Kirsten Reach

Nora Crook, who is an expert on the Romantic period and professor emerita at Anglia Ruskin University, recently found thirteen unpublished letters from Mary Shelley. While she was researching another writer… Read more »

Mellow Pages library in Brooklyn turns down $50,000 donation from ExxonMobil…or do they?

Julia Fleischaker

Mellow Pages, a library and reading room in Brooklyn, is at the center of a story involving ExxonMobil and the ethics of charitable donations. It’s an interesting story, but was… Read more »

Browsing for Books in Delhi

Claire Kelley

UPDATE: Readers on Twitter have suggested that The Bookshop and Fact and Fiction should be added to this list. They look wonderful! On a recent trip to India, I visited bookstores… Read more »

Melville House Books

Barnes & Noble “pleased” with holiday sales, which were terrible

Alex Shephard