November 11, 2015

It’s been nearly a year since the attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, an attack that left 12 people dead after Islamic extremists opened fire during an editorial meeting at… Read more »

Arts & Culture

Salman Rushdie, Ian Rankin and Joanne Harris amongst those recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours list — Nikki Griffiths
Lost Charlotte Brontë manuscript sold for $1.25 million — Nikki Griffiths
Waterstones appeal aims to raise £1m for Ukraine disaster fund — Tom Clayton
The Big Jubilee Read: 70 books are selected to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 70 year reign — Nikki Griffiths

Reading service aims to create the “YouTube of storytelling”

Chad Felix

Oolipo, a subscription-based mobile reading service from German publisher Bastei Lübbe, will launch in July of next year, The Bookseller’s Lisa Campbell reports. In a sidebar profile, Oolipo’s Chief Product Officer Ryan… Read more »

French vending machines dispense fiction instead of snacks

Kait Howard

As our lives become busier and our screen-time perpetual, some have predicted that the short story would become the most readily-consumed literary form of the age. Now the city of… Read more »

Virginia Woolf’s lighthouse to be obscured by new apartment complex

Zeljka Marosevic

“Yes, of course, if it’s fine tomorrow,” is the opening line of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. This is the voice of Mrs. Ramsay, promising her young son James a trip… Read more »

Legendary NYC radical bookselling collective trying to stave off rent increase

Simon Reichley

The fall fundraising season is in full swing, and while you’re surely tired of hearing pitch after pitch, allow us to draw your attention to just one more noble cause worthy… Read more »

Melville House Books

Little, Brown to publish memoir of Charlie Hebdo editor finished two days before his murder

Taylor Sperry