A thing long thought laughable, although a thing long predicted, has finally come to pass: Amazon is opening its own, brick-and-mortar bookstore today in Seattle. The fact that they were going to do… Read more »

Amazon Publishing has arrived in France, with Clément Monjou moving from their Kindle and AppStore to head the division. The first two books coming up from Amazon Publishing France are… Read more »

You would think that Amazon might have been cured of its experiments with publishing. After all, we at Melville have covered its failure to smuggle books into bookstores and its… Read more »

As seems to be happening with increasing frequency lately, a couple of weeks ago I got invited to another country, in this case Sweden, to speak about contemporary publishing, with… Read more »

Welcome to publishing, bitch. Andrew Wylie, aka, The Jackal, has spoken. But when Wylie, maybe the world’s leading literary agent, considered arch-enemy to many in the publishing industry, speaks, he… Read more »

You didn’t think that Amazon would just leave Goodreads alone did you, after subsuming it into its gaping maw earlier this year? No, rather than maintaining Goodreads as the user-generated… Read more »

The Wall Street Journal’s Jeffrey Trachtenberg here takes a critical look at Amazon Publishing’s first season with a New York office. The Journal reports that the company’s most high-profile release yet—Penny… Read more »

The new author ranking system shifts hourly, and is based on sales of every book by the author… Read more »

B & N is “not selling Amazon titles”… Read more »

Independent “booksellers have become more entrenched about their decision” not to stock or display books published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt imprint New Harvest—a front for books acquired and published in… Read more »