Melville House Books

Ariel Bogle

Ariel Bogle is a publicist at Melville House.

• Stephen King kills ebook in favor of print for his latest, Joyland

  Stephen King has been an online pioneer, digitizing his work long before other authors and publishers caught on, but in the case of his latest novel, he’s insisting readers go… Read more »

• Charlie Rose to host new primetime show

  Unless you’ve written a heartfelt book about a cute dog that changed your life or seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, it’s difficult for an author to… Read more »

• Academic publisher sues librarian blogger for millions

  “Beall’s list”, created by University of Colorado metadata librarian Jeffrey Beall, collates the academic journals which he regards as questionable. His hard work on outing journals whose business and academic… Read more »

• Clive James on Dan Brown: “I pity him deeply”

  Have you heard that Dan Brown published a book called Inferno? Well, one of our best and most searing critics, Clive James, certainly did. James recently translated the original Inferno, which was… Read more »

• Amazon launches “Kindle Love Stories” podcast and Goodreads book club, eats itself

  You didn’t think that Amazon would just leave Goodreads alone did you, after subsuming it into its gaping maw earlier this year? No, rather than maintaining Goodreads as the user-generated… Read more »

• Newspaper copyright troll Righthaven finally conquered

  Copyright trolls, no longer simply lurking under bridges, have taken to the internet, using threats of legal action to make quick money. The trolling technique has proved so popular in… Read more »

• Yesterday was a bad, bad day for book editors UPDATE: Today also sucks

  While everyone knows that the life of a newspaper book editor is usually all free lunches, soft couches made of ARCs, and foot rubs from first time novellists, some days… Read more »

• Sales tax fairness legislation passed in Senate

  Over the past few years, bookstores nationwide have protested the price advantage conferred on Amazon by not having to collect sales tax. Currently, because of a 1992 Supreme Court ruling, states… Read more »

• Losing DRM hasn’t hurt Tor’s profits

  When they announced last year that they would go DRM-free, Pan Macmillian’s science fiction imprint Tor/Forge took a stand against a feature of most ebooks that customers hate but that… Read more »

• When is a blog not journalism?

  The right to anonymously publish political commentary without government oversight is one of American journalism’s most sacred tenets, but now that blogs abound, the lines are being blurred. Dennis Bailey’s Cutler… Read more »