Week 18: $1.99 Ebook Sale
How to Sharpen Pencils David Rees Deep in New York’s Hudson River Valley, craftsman David Rees—the world’s number one #2 pencil sharpener—still practices the age-old art of manual pencil sharpening.… Read more »
Week 12: Ebook Sale
Another week, another ebook sale! We have a fantastic selection of novellas for $1.99 this week—as well as a special sale on Malcolm Harris’s Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit. Smart,… Read more »
Interview with Rick Simonson and Michael Reynolds
Melville House co-publisher Dennis Johnson interviews Rick Simonson, head buyer at Elliott Bay Book Company, and Michael Reynolds, editor-in-chief of Europa Editions. This is the fourth in a series of… Read more »
This week we have a selection of ebooks from our beloved Last Interview series on sale for $1.99. Each volume contains the subject’s last interview, as well as some of… Read more »
Happy Women’s Month! 5 great reads by women, about women
Happy Women’s Month! Get inspired by these incredible books by women, about women. —– A Woman Like Her: The Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star by Sanam… Read more »
Apple attempts to halt publication of book containing “company secrets”
Tom Sadowski, former head of the Apple App Store for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, has written a book about his time at Apple (including meetings with CEO Tim Cook, according… Read more »
New app brings The Canterbury Tales to life
A team of researchers at the University of Saskatchewan have brought The Canterbury Tales to life with what’s sure to become every English major’s new favorite app. Ellen Gutoskey, reporting… Read more »
BookBar launches program to connect readers to book clubs
UPDATE: Publishers Weekly reports that after backlash over use of the word “tribe,” the name of the venture has been changed to BookClubHub. Our friends over at BookBar, an indie bookstore… Read more »
Brooklyn Library names Mary Mattingly as 2020’s Artist in Residence
Every year the Brooklyn Public Library hosts an Artist in Residence to connect local artists to the library and its patrons. According to the library website, the program offers library… Read more »
773 UK libraries have closed in last decade
In just ten years nearly a fifth of the UK’s libraries have closed, reports Alison Flood for the Guardian. Correspondingly, “the number of paid librarians has also plummeted” (from 24,000 to… Read more »