March 31, 2014

If bookstores are fleeing high city rents, what happens to the neighborhoods where they land? Are bookstores as culpable for gentrification as anyone else? Last week the New York Times… 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

Elsevier loves Open Access, especially when they can still charge for articles

Sal Robinson

Academic publisher Elsevier, whose various malfeasances we’ve covered here, here, and here, is at it again. It turns out that they’ve been charging for access to Open Access articles. Furthermore,… Read more »

Carol Hughes withdraws material from consideration for new Ted Hughes biography

Emma Aylor

Jonathan Bate, an Oxford professor at work on a biography of poet Ted Hughes, lost a crucial resource recently when Hughes’ widow withdrew her support of the project — four years after… Read more »

Authorized Gone with the Wind prequel to tell Mammy’s story

Nick Davies

The character of Mammy in Gone with the Wind is an important one, symbolically; it’s the role that earned Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1940, the first African-American to do… Read more »

Book cover appeals to hoarders, compulsive organizers

Christopher King

In a video posted recently by Penguin, photographer Dan Tobin Smith reveals how he created a stunning cover image for the UK paperback edition of Mark Miodownik’s book Stuff Matters.… Read more »

Melville House Books

Are bookstores agents of gentrification?

Dustin Kurtz