Some good news for the fan on all things Moleskine notebooks. It was announced recently that Moleskinerie.com, the independently financed site dedicated to all things little brown books, has been bought by Kikkerland Design, the company that distributes the Moleskine books, thus ensuring its continued existence. Here's a bit:

Moleskinerie.com was started on January 12, 2004 by Armand Frasco, an award winning photographer and journalist, and has since become a hub of Moleskine users from around the globe...The popularity of the site became so time-consuming, Mr. Frasco needed a partner to keep the project alive so he approached Kikkerland Design, the official Moleskine US and Canada distributor.

Kikkerland believes that by making its support of Moleskinerie.com permanent it will encourage and keep a conversation going between the products' users and the company on issues such as quality control, product development and design trends in general.