Simon Reichley

Simon Reichley is the Director of Operations and Rights Manager at Melville House.

Jean-Claud Arnaud is sentenced to two years in prison for rape, bringing some closure to a period of great unrest for the Swedish Academy

The scandal plaguing the Swedish Academy found some small measure of resolution last week, as Jean-Claude Arnaud, husband of former Academy member Katarina Frostenson, was sentenced to two years in prison… Read more »

Len Riggio, who has fired four CEOs in five years, denies that instability in corporate leadership has hurt Barnes and Noble

It’s been almost two months since Barnes and Noble fired CEO Demos Parneros. At the time, details on the ouster were scarce, but in late-August, Parneros filed a lawsuit against… Read more »

Jean-Claude Arnault, husband of Swedish Academy member Katarina Frostenson, is on trial for allegations of rape

In April of this year, the Swedish Academy, which determines the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, was thrown into utter disarry, when Jean-Claude Arnault, husband of Academy member… Read more »

In the aftermath of India’s historic ruling on gay sex, organizers plan first-ever Queer Literature Festival in Uttar Pradesh

On Thursday, September 6th, the Supreme Court of India unanimously declared unconstitutional that the country’s 150 year old ban on consensual gay sex. It was a momentous decision, one which… Read more »

Reprogrammable Braille offers tremendous potential to blind and visually impaired readers

We have, over the years, had ample cause to ridicule a good number of faddish “book technologies,” each of which was certain to “change the nature of reading, at scale” or “revolutionize the… Read more »

Books for Africa celebrates the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s birth

Nelson Mandela, the socialist freedom fighter who led South Africa out of Apartheid in the nineties died in 2013, and would have celebrated his 100th birthday last Wednesday. To commemorate the… Read more »

A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of Carl Malamud’s Public.Resource.Org, ordering a trial court to reconsider his fair use claims

We’ve written about Carl Malamud and PRO (a charitable organization he founded to disseminate articles of public interest on the internet) several times over the last few years. Malamud’s been… Read more »

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