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Penguin, Macmillan, and Apple said to be holding out from settlement with DOJ
“Talks to resolve U.S. and European price-fixing probes into e-books are heating up, with three international publishers inclined to settle the matter,” according to a Wall Street Journal report by… 1 / Read more »
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Pew study finds ebook readers buy more books, but print book reading still “dominates”
The Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project has released a lengthy study of changing American reading habits with some surprising findings. The 68-page report, “The Rise of e-Reading,”… Read more »
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Oddest Book Title of the Year award-winner named
I know, I know, we’re supposed to be a bunch of highbrows over here at Melville House. Britain’s Independent newspaper called us an “upscale” publisher, some academic in Australia has… Read more »
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AUDIO: Andrey Kurkov discusses the penguins that inspired Death and the Penguin
A little less than a month ago, Melville House author Andrey Kurkov visited the US for an short lecture tour and made a few bookstore appearances. At his reading at… Read more »
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Could a university’s football program be supporting its baseball-focused press?
It’s baseball time in America, and one university press is hoping all the enthusiasm for the country’s “most literary” of sports results in higher book sales. The University of Nebraska… Read more »
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SLIDE SHOW: The private world of great writers
The website Apartment Therapy has posted a slideshow of fifteen writers’ bedrooms, many of which are an interesting reflection of the authors’ works and personalities. Victor Hugo’s apartment on Paris’… Read more »
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Day in Review
Letter from Guatamala Nominate your favorite young editor Book designer Chip Kidd TED video Old Man and the Sea stop-motion Make a wish, win a book Addressing Google’s eyeglasses, in… Read more »
