“Why don’t we have a museum that honors the great writing and the great writers in America?” That’s the question posed by Malcolm O’Hagan, a retired president and chief executive… Read more »

Bibliophiles are probably aware of the many iterations of Penguin Classics, but they might be surprised to learn that, for a time, Penguin published musical scores as well. Started in… Read more »

The logotype that identifies all Melville House books, found near the bottom of their spines, is composed of a triangle sitting off center atop a square — a black, geometrically… Read more »

Pray, tell us what would you consider to be the most ubiquitous yet unsung feature of the book-trade? Time’s up. From the blog over at Quercus Books, publishers of the… Read more »

It’s the birthday of Robert Giroux — yes, as in Farrar, Strauss, Giroux — who was born on this day in 1914. As an editor first at Harcourt Brace, that… 2 / Read more »

This just in: Several big conglomerates seem to be gobbling up major American publishers. Should we be concerned? “It is either the apex or the nadir of a tremendous change… Read more »

In an interesting profile on Investor’s Business Daily, Amy Reeves takes a look at Random House co-founder Bennet Cerf. Reeve’s focus — after an odd intro that seems to operate… Read more »

The last time there was an economic meltdown in the UK — during the eighties, aka the Thatcher era — with factories closing, unemployement skyrocketing, inflation spiking, public spending plummeting,… 2 / Read more »

2009 marks the tercentenary of the birth of Samuel Johnson, author, essayist, journalist, editor, and lexicographer of such repute that his era is known as the Age of Johnson. To… Read more »