July 01, 2014 » MobyLives! Archives

We mentioned this briefly two weeks ago, and the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday with more details: Bertelsmann is closing its retail division in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland by the… 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

Carnegie Medals go to Donna Tartt, Doris Kearns Goodwin

Nick Davies

The Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were presented over the weekend in Las Vegas, going this year to Donna Tartt for her novel The Goldfinch, and Doris… Read more »

The NYPL is hosting a roundtable discussion about Amazon and the book industry tonight

Alex Shephard

Tonight at 7PM, the New York Public Library will be hosting an event about Amazon and the book industry, “Amazon: Business as Usual?” The event will feature bestselling Hachette author… Read more »

Crime fiction is far more popular with women than men

Bradley Babendir

In an article for The Guardian, MJ McGrath reports that about 80% of people planning to attend the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival were women. About half of the… Read more »

Melville House Books

July 1, 2014

Auf Wiedersehen, German book clubs

Kirsten Reach