British bookstores respond to Black Friday with “Civilised Saturday”
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 to reissue Bernie Sanders’s 1997 political autobiography as Outsider in the White House
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 »
How can authors partner with indie bookstores? Ask a bookseller
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 »
Our official Winter Institute checklist
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 »
How the Grinch stole Christmas: Amazon partners with Royal Mail
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 »
Waterstones takes cue from indie bookshops and will open ‘The Southwold Bookshop’
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 »
New London’s Monte Cristo bookstore approaches its one year anniversary
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 »
Pick a book, any book
It can be a thrill to discover a new book by chance — happening upon it on a shelf at a bookstore or library, or at the home of a… Read more »
Video: Get a glimpse of Tattered Cover’s onetime theatre location
Denver independent bookstore Tattered Cover released a video this week that offers a tour of their location on Colfax Avenue, the onetime Bonfils Theatre, which still has elements of its… Read more »
Pinch Pulitzer goes to David Foster Wallace
When the Pulitzer Prize board decided not to present an award for fiction last month, independent bookstores were frustrated at the lack of a winner, which would usually give them… Read more »