April 10, 2014

Late last week, America’s eleventh favorite big box toy store, Barnes & Noble, suffered a major blow when Liberty Media announced it would be selling most of its 17% share… 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

Citizens Defending Libraries campaign for support in Brooklyn

Kirsten Reach

Citizens Defending Libraries held a demonstration Tuesday night in front of Brooklyn Public Library, calling for support to save Brooklyn libraries from sale or disrepair. The protest aligned with a… Read more »

PRESS RELEASE: Melville House to begin pairing audio with ebooks

Dustin Kurtz

Books are broken. Sure, maybe they were fine at one point, back when everything was boring and people smelled like horse farts or whatever, say before 1994, but now that… Read more »

Peter and Jane and Miriam and Penguin take on art, copyright, crucifixes, and dead rabbits

Wah-Ming Chang

Peter and Jane are brother and sister. Miriam and Ezra are sister and brother. Peter and Jane’s mother loves art. Miriam and Ezra make art. Peter and Jane learn about… Read more »

African publishers are closing the gap in chick-lit

Martin Rouse

American privilege comes in many forms, and an abundance of chick-lit seems to be one of them. In an article in Kenya’s Standard Digital News, Anjellah Owino reveals an African… Read more »

Melville House Books

Barnes & Noble is optimistic about its future, even if no one else is

Alex Shephard