July 05, 2011 | MobyLives! Archives

Amazon takes over its only international competitor, while Penguin prefers vertical monopoly
It was launched as a daring alternative to Amazon.com, but yesterday the only real international competitor the behomoth from Seattle ever had — The Book Depository.com — betrayed its mandate… Read more »
Did the FBI hound Hemingway to death?
July 1st was the 50th anniversary of the day Ernest Hemingway ended his life, and in a New York Times op-ed column to mark the day, Hemingway’s long-time friend and… 2 / Read more »
David Graeber on the debt crisis pretty much everywhere
Later this month Melville House is publishing something that hasn’t really been done: a history of debt. The book is titled Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber, an… Read more »
Illustrator wins the “Getting inside The Outsider” competition.
In London last night, House of Illustration and The Folio Society announced the winner for their inaugural Book Illustration Competition: Matthew Richardson. Richardson, winner of the ’Getting inside The Outsider’ competition, won a £4000 commission to… Read more »
Weekend in Review
Dan Brown still Oxfam’s least wanted 2011 RITA Award Winners The Lively and Maybe Lost Art of the Literary Reading Are estributors the future of publishing? Man Booker International vs.… Read more »

Melville House Books