Melville House Books

Random House’s warehouses are famously fancy, so when the Penguin-Random merger came to pass, it seemed unlikely that all Penguin warehouses would stay in operation. Earlier this year, the company… Read more »

The Nigerian publishing industry, which recently seemed like it was heading into a brighter tomorrow, has hit a new bump. Farafina Books, which publishes several major Nigerian authors including Chimamanda… Read more »

Nobel prize-winning author Doris Lessing died last year in November. She spent her childhood in Zimbabwe, and lived there until age 25 when she moved to London. She later returned… Read more »

This week, in statistics that seem high but should probably be higher, Scholastic is reporting that 73% of kids ages 6-17 would read more books if they could find more… Read more »