DOJ sues Edward Snowden over new memoir
This past Tuesday, Metropolitan Books (an imprint of Macmillan) published Permanent Record, the memoir from former CIA and NSA intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. That same day the U.S. Department of… Read more »
A comic book for blind people, ft. a blind character, by a blind creator
Chad Allen is a self-proclaimed comic book lover who was diagnosed with Retinitis pigmentosa, a rare, inherited degenerative eye disease that causes severe vision impairment, when he was 15 years… Read more »
Chicago Review Press acquires Amberjack Publishing
A fact of life in publishing is that big publishers will acquire small publishers and keep them open as an imprint, which builds a complex web of companies that exist… Read more »
Donald Trump is the latest to face the satirical treatment from multi-million bestselling series Ladybirds for Grown-Ups
“The fact that you can see the words doesn't make it a book,” argues Audible's lawyer
Building in the moment: Lego launches mindfulness book
Indie bookshops to boycott David Cameron's memoir
African American online bookstore cuts ties with Amazon
As we’ve discussed here and here, tensions between publishers and Amazon have recently come to a head over the issue of Amazon’s new “captions” feature for audio books (which one… Read more »
Children’s book featuring a trans protagonist wins major prize
A picture book about a young boy dressing up as a mermaid has won The Klaus Flugge Prize. Founded to honour publisher Klaus Flugge, who set up Andersen Press in 1976 and discovered… Read more »
Gomer ceases publishing new books; focuses on printing
Sad news from the valleys last week, as one of the biggest publishers in Wales, Gwasg Gomer, announces it is ‘winding down’ its publishing operations to focus solely on printing. In a story… Read more »
Our continued fascination with Sherlock Holmes continues to fascinate
According to the LA Times, two venerable institutions are throwing their energies behind a search for lost Sherlock Holmes films. Christi Carras writes: The UCLA Film & Television Archive and… Read more »
James Patterson donating thousands of dollars to teachers
James Patterson is at it again: donating his money to worthwhile literary causes. The mega-bestselling author’s latest charitable deeds benefit those who might just need it most—teachers and students. Reported… Read more »
Chapter One: Some Bad News The postwoman Eva Kluge slowly climbs the steps of 55 Jablonski Strasse. She’s tired from her round, but she also has one of those letters… Read more »
Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to the publishing world
Perhaps the only thing that we here at MobyLives have in common with Jeffrey Epstein is that the man was once a blogger like us. Over at The Chronicle of… Read more »
On the 10th anniversary of Hans Fallada’s Every Man Dies Alone
Interviews, never-before-seen photographs, rare essays by the author… Read more »
Harry Potter books are removed from a Tennessee school for being Satanic
Don’t you just hate it when you’re innocently performing an Accio summoning spell or trying to cast a Patronus and an evil spirit turns up instead, ready to drag you… Read more »
A complaint describing a children’s book on potty training as "filth" helps it become a bestseller
Rape or weird foreplay: Bob Woodward investigates
Donald Trump is the latest to face the satirical treatment from multi-million bestselling series Ladybirds for Grown-Ups
New York Times Best Sellers tracking to change
What happens when you give a monopoly a dystopian text: They learn how to be badder
If it wasn’t for social media, most likely no one would have noticed. But in numerous posts on Twitter and Instagram beginning at least on Tuesday, the cat was… Read more »
The Booker Prize carries on without The Man
The Booker Prize, formerly known as the Man Booker Prize, is a prize for fiction in the UK. The Man Group pulled funding for the prize earlier this year, but… Read more »
Publishers sue Audible over possible copyright infringement
Hello! We have returned from our August hiatus. Sun drunk and blissed out, we’re so relaxed that we have nothing to report about the conquering tide of Amazon washing into new… Read more »
Dogs & Health Justice Now for International Dog Day
Happy International Dog Day! Author (and social media genius) Timothy Faust posted a callout for photos of dogs with his book, Health Justice Now, and you guys did not disappoint.… Read more »
I used to hate facial hair. But then it grew on me: new book of Dad jokes, coming soon.
I don’t know about you, but I could do with a little light relief right now as the world turns to garbage. Boris “Piccaninny Watermelon Letterbox Cake Bumboys Vampires Haircut… Read more »
Megan Rapinoe lands book deal following World Cup domination
Earlier in the summer, we wrote about the Women’s World Cup and its potentially transformative impact on the way society views the sport. We speculated on whether more books on… Read more »
How Moby-Dick became the Rosetta Stone of the American republic
In his own era, Melville’s work received at best a mixed reception. Said the London Athenaeum of Moby-Dick, “This is an ill-compounded mixture of romance and matter-of-fact…The style of his… Read more »
A lost chapter of the world's oldest novel was found in a Tokyo home
Indie bookshops to boycott David Cameron's memoir
Old Yellow: new book celebrates 100 years of the Tour de France's maillot jaune
"Sustainable Sue" discusses Keeping the Lights On: The What, Where, and How of Consumer Energy in New York
Wishing the happiest 200th birthday to Herman Melville
Happy happy birthday to Herman Melville! 200 years! Wowza. For readers that are New Yorkers, Poets.org put together this really impressive self-guided Herman Melville super fan walking tour that would… Read more »
British poetry publisher starts its own audiobook series
Poetry has never been a literary art meant to remain on the page. Poets are performers are heart, taking to the stage to give voice and body to their texts.… Read more »
Bookselling scams on the rise
We often write about downward trends in book buying–that folks just aren’t buying enough books. But maybe they are also buying the wrong books. Today, buying the wrong books is… Read more »
A complaint describing a children’s book on potty training as "filth" helps it become a bestseller
“The fact that you can see the words doesn't make it a book,” argues Audible's lawyer
African American online bookstore cuts ties with Amazon
Publishers sue Audible over possible copyright infringement
Jakarta’s First Ever Literary Festival to Focus on Asian and African Writers
Nothing like a non-Western literary festival to reinvigorate contemporary literature. As the Jakarta Post points out, authors from Asia and Africa are to take center stage at the first-ever Jakarta International… Read more »
New president of the American Booksellers Association
According to Ed Nawotka reporting for Publisher’s Weekly, Jamie Fiocco just started her term as the American Booksellers Association board president. Fiocco is the owner of Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, North… Read more »
Library of Congress expands book festival with yearlong series of events
This year’s National Book Festival, a free annual event hosted by the Library of Congress, was already set to be a hit with big names like Ruth Bader Ginsberg and… Read more »
East London Waterstones forced to close after huge fire
This Monday, July 22, a huge fire ripped through East London. Declared a major police incident, it broke out in The Mall shopping centre in Walthamstow, which contains 66 shops.… Read more »
The ‘Cats’ trailer: actually not a-paw-ling?
So, you might have heard that there’s a Cats film coming out in December? Directed by Les Miserables director Tom Hooper? Based on the long-running, wildly successful musical, which was in turn based on T.S… Read more »
A Hemingway lookalike contest that would make Papa proud
Gentlemen, start growing out your beards now for next year’s Ernest Hemingway lookalike contest, hosted annually in Key West according to WPTV. This year, over 100 Hemingway fanatics participated in the lookalike… Read more »
New scheme to encourage female BAME and working-class crime writers supported by J.K. Rowling
We went to Winter Institute and all we got was this super-rad pin which also helps booksellers
The Bovine Comedy: publishers race to secure Big Cow memoir (probably)
Someone has won a Welsh bookshop in a raffle and we're not jealous at all
Five things to know about the Booker longlist
The Booker Foundation released the long list for its annual prize. And if you look hard enough, you’ll soon be looking like this guy: Here’s what you need to know.… Read more »
Republican caucus wants gay conversion therapy books to be more widely available
In the past we have written about how breathtakingly homophobic the concept of gay conversion therapy is, and how it is bad science that must be stamped out wherever it seems… Read more »
A complaint describing a children’s book on potty training as "filth" helps it become a bestseller
“The fact that you can see the words doesn't make it a book,” argues Audible's lawyer
African American online bookstore cuts ties with Amazon
Publishers sue Audible over possible copyright infringement
UK Booksellers Association launches green initiative
The UK Booksellers Association is challenging booksellers to become more environmentally friendly, launching Green Bookselling: A Manifesto for the BA, Booksellers, and the Book industry. Jim Milliot outlines the manifesto… Read more »
End credits for books?
We at Melville House would like to think most of you know how many people it takes to publish a book. It doesn’t just end with the author and their… Read more »
Robert Mueller Testimony—Watch Party at Brooklyn Roasting in DUMBO
Come watch Robert Mueller testify before Congress! On Wednesday, July 24, starting at 8:30am and continuing until approximately 2:00pm, join Melville House Publishing at Brooklyn Roasting—25 Jay Street in DUMBO—for… Read more »
Audible’s new audiobooks program may just be . . . books
Audiobooks are books that get recorded. There are exceptions to this statement (like audio originals), but stick with me here. Transcribing an audiobook, then, would simply create a text quite… Read more »
Libraries get even better with resident social workers
For many, libraries offer more than just access to books. With resources on securing employment, furthering education, or just a place to sit indoors, away from the elements, libraries provide community members… Read more »
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