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Dennis Johnson

• Some people never learn: Johnson & Merians start a new company … Melville House UK

  Last Friday, in an exclusive with Philip Jones, editor of the UK’s leading book-trade magazine, The Bookseller, Melville House founders Valerie Merians and Dennis Johnson announced they’re starting another publishing… Read more »

• EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY: All Melville House books to be published exclusively in peptide chains

  Researchers with the European Bioinformatics Institute announced this week on the website of Nature magazine that they’ve successfully pioneered a new method of encoding data on DNA molecules. Among the… Read more »

• Why I don’t shut up about Amazon

  We write a lot about Amazon on this blog. We, collectively, work hard to keep news of that grinning retail behemoth, that gyre of shit and discount tennis socks, before… Read more »

• VIDEO: Two guys talkin’ indie publishing

  Publishers Johnny Temple of Akashic and Melville House’s own Dennis Johnson were interviewed by C-Span’s Book TV at the industry convention Book Expo America two weeks ago in New York… 1 / Read more »

• Head of Reed Elsevier hits back at academic uprising

  Even as the uprising against scholarly publisher Elsevier continues to spread — see this report from the Sydney Morning Herald about Australian academics joining in, and this CBC report about the… 2 / Read more »