VIDEO: Two guys talkin’ indie publishing
Publishers Johnny Temple of Akashic and Melville House’s own Dennis Johnson were interviewed by C-Span’s Book TV at the industry convention Book Expo America two weeks ago in New York… 1 / Read more »
Publishers Johnny Temple of Akashic and Melville House’s own Dennis Johnson were interviewed by C-Span’s Book TV at the industry convention Book Expo America two weeks ago in New York… 1 / Read more »
When the Royal Canadian Mounted Police recently busted a drug ring in Calgary, Alberta, they found among the cash, weapons and drugs, an autographed copy of a book about money… Read more »
As reported earlier on MobyLives, British education secretary, Michael Gove, has brought forward a new national curriculum—one that includes the mandatory learning of a foreign language as early as seven… 1 / Read more »
It’s the 40th anniversary of the Prison Book Program, based in Qunicy, MA, said to be the oldest such book donation program in the country, according to this story in… Read more »
A rare first edition of the Book of Mormon was stolen from the Rare and Out of Print Books and Art shop in Mesa, Arizona, over the Memorial Day weekend,… Read more »
New research from the Sesame Workshop’s Joan Ganz Cooney Center suggests that enhanced e-books negatively affect reading comprehension, according to this report at Digital Book World. The report is the… Read more »
In case you missed it, as I did, “A treasure trove of pre-revolutionary books and magazines has been discovered in the archives of the Russian State Polytechnical Museum Library in… 1 / Read more »
“The Vatican has denounced as ‘criminal’ a new book of leaked internal documents that shed light on power struggles inside the Holy See and the inner workings of its embattled… 1 / Read more »
In Chapel Hill, NC, the public library is a quiet place where you can track down your latest interests or peacefully read the latest novel. But that quiet has been… Read more »
Sad news for Parisian anglophones: The famed English-language bookshop The Village Voice is closing its doors July 31st, according to this report on the American Library in Paris website. While… 2 / Read more »