Paul Kingsnorth’s The Wake was the surprise winner of the Book of the Year award at the Bookseller Industry Awards on Monday night. The Wake was originally published through the crowd-funding publishing… Read more »

On Wednesday, I wrote about the strange goings-on at the independent publisher Hesperus Press, where all four members of staff have resigned without explanation. Since then, no public statement has… Read more »

In 2002, the indie publisher Hesperus Press published Jonas Jonasson’s The 100-Year-Old Man Who Jumped Out of the Window and Disappeared, which went on to be a massive hit and… Read more »

Right now Melville House is at the ABA Winter Institute for the very first time! It’s a big deal to attend such a major bookselling/publishing event, and we’re collectively stoked to… Read more »

Fanfiction and other works may be one of the last bastions of nerdery still vehemently rejected by mainstream culture—outsiders often view the community as being fundamentally unoriginal. Even in an atmosphere… Read more »

Last weekend, Melville House UK was one of three independent publishers invited to showcase its books at the Foyles indie publishers bazaar, as part of the Charing Cross Road Festival.… Read more »

The news that Penguin and Random House will merge into one large frankenpublisher sent shockwaves through the book industry as the frankenstorm lashed the northeast. The move is motivated by… 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 »

In a Publishers Weekly opinion essay, indie publisher John Oakes of OR Books argues that publishers can best fight Amazon by cutting them out of the equation entirely and selling… 2 / Read more »

London, 1 May 2012 — The Alliance of Radical Booksellers has announced that Melville House’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years, by David Graeber was the winner of the 2012 Bread and Roses… Read more »