This year has been a garbage fire for everyone, but in the publishing industry, indie booksellers have had a particularly rough go of it. For many indies their business model… Read more »

Way back at the end of January, we wrote a little ditty about the new kids on the online retail block, Bookshop.org. Back then they were taking it step by step,… Read more »

The necessity of social distancing became real for many Americans this weekend as more people started working from home and schools, libraries, and businesses announced closures in response to COVID-19… Read more »

Every year, Black Friday sales remind us that to be American is to love a good deal. (Indeed, here at Melville House, we’ve got our very own Black Friday sale… Read more »

Verso, the great radical publishers, have many authors on their list who would make for fine presidential candidates. One can imagine Fredric Jameson kicking off a mournful, utopian campaign in… Read more »

Recently at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) conference in Minneapolis, Melville House publisher Dennis Johnson organized and moderated a panel about the many partnership opportunities for authors and independent… Read more »

Right now Melville House is at the ABA Winter Institute for the very first time! It’s a big deal to attend such a major bookselling/publishing event, and we’re collectively stoked to… Read more »

Amazon UK has won the title of this year’s Grinch who stole Christmas. Were there ever any other contenders? Amazon announced yesterday that it has partnered with the Post Office… Read more »

Something interesting is happening over at Waterstones. The bookselling chain, which has around 275 stores across the UK’s high streets, has begun a spree of opening new shops. Just last… Read more »

Last year, as Hurricane Sandy made its way up the Atlantic Coast, Christopher Jones and Gina Holmes were making plans to open a bookstore in New London, Connecticut. Having raised their… Read more »