Melville House Books

Uncategorized

• Crime Month Sticky
• What’s the future for the UK’s local libraries?

  Yesterday, Arts Council England (ACE) published its report into the future of local libraries. ‘Envisioning the library of the future’ is ‘a major research project undertaken over the past year’ during… Read more »

• 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 »

• 6 Manchester libraries set to close

  In the continuing losing battle to save England’s local libraries, it’s been announced that Manchester will most likely lose six of its libraries within weeks, if the council’s proposed cuts… Read more »

• Arts Council England fights back at Maria Miller

  I reported last month on Culture Secretary Maria Miller’s troubling speech on making the arts economically viable. That day, she addressed the heads of the biggest arts organisations in Britain… Read more »

• 50 annotated first editions—going to the highest bidder

  It’s an impressive feat to collect 50 first editions of some of the most eminent authors writing today. But it’s a rare event when each of those fifty books has… Read more »

• Testing Times: Culture Secretary Maria Miller’s worrying speech

  At an event on Wednesday at the British Museum, Culture Secretary Maria Miller addressed the heads of British arts organisations with a speech entitled,  ‘Testing Times: Fighting culture’s corner in… Read more »

• Sing-along Moby-Dick

  Recently, we brought you a report on the BBC’s forthcoming new drama, The Whale, which will centre around the tragedy of the Essex whaleship, the historical basis for Moby-Dick. Now, we bring you… Read more »

• Put Down Old People at Birth, and other writings discovered in the Scarfolk archive

  Anyone who, like me, grew up in the North West of England will tell you that a childhood spent in Northern suburbia was a spooky one: eerie, identical streets, weird… Read more »

• UK libraries begin archiving websites and other digital content

  A regulation came quietly into play last week in the UK that has long-term implications for the preservation of digital content. It is essentially an extension of the principle called… Read more »