Melville House Books

Publishing

• Even more turnover at Granta

  A month ago, Granta announced that editor John Freeman was leaving to teach creative writing at Columbia University. Three weeks ago, it was reported that the New York office would be… 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 »

• First Publishing Hackathon to be held in NYC and judged at BEA

  Hackathons have become common in the tech industry as a way to bring bursts of creative and programming energy to solve a problem in a short amount of time. According… Read more »

• Jaron Lanier offers to save the book business, but even his own publisher doesn’t listen

  Jaron Lanier has been called an “internet pioneer,” a “digital visionary,” and a “technology humanist.” He shaped the internet as it was being formed, later criticizing Web 2.0 for making… Read more »

• Dan Brown causes price wars, bookshops party like it’s 1999

  There are loads of things we predicted the new Dan Brown novel would bring: clumsy, soul-destroying prose, translators cast into working conditions resembling the pits of hell, Tom Hanks looking… Read more »

• Ten Nights On Long Island: The Great Gatsby’s early reviews

  In its first year, The Great Gatsby sold a disappointing 21,000 copies, less than half of the first year sales for This Side of Paradise or The Beautiful and Dammed.… 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 »

• What to do when you have no spine: The Atlantic publishes ebooks

  As Laura Hazard Owen of paidContent reports, The Atlantic announced Wednesday that they will begin publishing ebooks under a new venture called The Atlantic Books. The press will publish “original long-form… Read more »

• How much does a Pulitzer affect book sales?

  Husna Haq of The Christian Science Monitor tracked sales for the 2013 winners just two weeks after the Pulitzer Prize was announced. The result? Money has not fallen from the… Read more »