SLIDESHOW: A tower of 6,800 Abraham Lincoln books

Does your book need a soundtrack?

A new start up called Booktrack is seeking to include sound effects and ambient soundtracks to back your favorite literary titles. A couple of things to make clear about this… 1 / Read more »

Hollywood’s rare book collectors

One would think that Hollywood bibliophiles would be flashy collectors, using the purchase receipts of valuable books to demonstrate some intellectual inner life that the tabloids usually strip them of.… 3 / Read more »

Bloomberg moves to cut library funding…again

Mike Kelley of Library Journal has broken down the figures on the proposed library cuts by NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and they’re grim figures to be sure. They are made… Read more »

Death of Pushkin Weekend Special – The Duel x5 for as low as $14.99!

To commemorate the passing of one of Melville House’s favorite writers, Alexander Pushkin, we’re running a weekend long sale on his seminal work of Russian prose fiction: Tales of Belkin.… Read more »

Is crime fiction replacing romance as the go-to escapist literature?

There are a few interesting articles circulating about mass market fiction consumption in the UK library system. The romance genre has long sat atop the list of most checked-out titles,… 1 / Read more »

Patton Oswalt on Derek Raymond, and other Melville International Crime news

“Holy s***” When asked in a recent GQ interview if he could recommend a good book, actor and comedian Patton Oswalt got our attention with this wonderful recommendation: “I’m also… Read more »

Whatever LeVar Burton wants, LeVar Burton gets

But for how much? A little over a year ago LeVar Burton announced that he wanted to reboot the Reading Rainbow franchise with a new company and approach. Per this… 1 / Read more »

The Art of the Craig Ferguson Novella

No, we’re not offering Craig Ferguson a record breaking deal for his first kids book. There is however, a bit of a back story to this post. Last August we… Read more »

William Gibson on Derek Raymond and other Melville International Crime news

William Gibson on Derek Raymond In Saturday’s New York Times there was a great interview with writer William Gibson that touched base on the author’s many diverse interests. Naturally one… Read more »