Every year, Black Friday sales remind us that to be American is to love a good deal. (Indeed, here at Melville House, we’ve got our very own Black Friday sale… Read more »

Verso, the great radical publishers, have many authors on their list who would make for fine presidential candidates. One can imagine Fredric Jameson kicking off a mournful, utopian campaign in… Read more »

Brooklyn has a lot going for it. We have incredible food, lots of parks, art pretty much everywhere, and some kick-ass independent publishers. For people who love real honest-to-god glue… Read more »

Is Amazon censoring Hachette authors? Authors United seems to think so. And Ursula Le Guin agrees. When asked why she had joined Authors United, Le Guin told The New York Times “We’re… Read more »

Earlier this month, the LA Times Festival of Books announced that it had added Amazon buy buttons to its website. As Shelf Awareness’s Bridget Kinsella wrote at the time, “although the e-tailer is… Read more »

Back in September the sensationally successful, bestselling author James Patterson pledged $1 million of his personal wealth to independent bookshops across America (we covered the story here). Yesterday, Patterson announced… Read more »

UPDATE: Even more indie bookseller reactions added below. It’s a rarity, but I have to give credit where it’s due. Amazon did a good thing on Wednesday: they made me… Read more »

It seems that independent bookstores are thriving in Russia, adopting a business model that emphasizes the strengths of small stores. Alena Tveritina reports for Russia Beyond the Headlines that several… Read more »

Amazon’s fifteen year campaign to control the book market—a campaign that has included not paying taxes, pulling buy buttons of accounts that won’t agree to terms, coaching the government to… Read more »

All week long, we’ve been posting bookseller Q&As to mark Independent Booksellers Week, and to celebrate only some of the many independent bookshops and booksellers in Britain. We’ve featured Warwick… Read more »