Agreement reached for buyout of The Bookseller
Media research company Nielsen has agreed "in principle" to sell the UK publishing industry magazine The Bookseller to its managing director Nigel Roby. Negotiations are expected to conclude at the end...
View ArticleUK Orange Award shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2010 Orange Prize for fiction has been announced. The winner will be announced June 9 in London. Finalists are: Rosie Alison, The Very Thought of You Barbara Kingsolver, The...
View ArticleAuthor Alan Sillitoe dies aged 82
Author Alan Sillitoe has died aged 82 at Charing Cross Hospital in London, England. His novels included Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, both of which...
View ArticleJohn Hart's 'Last Child' wins Edgar Best Novel
Last night, The Mystery Writers of America announced the winners of the annual Edgar Awards, at their 64th Gala Banquet in New York City. The winners are: Best Novel: The Last Child by John Hart...
View ArticleGoogle enters digital books war with launch of Editions
Google is set to launch its own online e-book store in 2010 (by end of summer 2010). Google Editions books will not be tied to a specific device, unlike rival e-book company Amazon. "It is a different...
View ArticleGoogle Book Editions and a 'New World Order' in Book Publishing
Using a memorable and somewhat ominous phrase, Oxford Universitys Evan Schnittman said the book publishing world is facing a 'new world order,' or a trio of giant companiesAmazon, Google and...
View ArticleBorders to launch Kobo ereader in June
Borders begun taking orders for the Kobo, which begins shipping June 17 and retails for $149.99, significantly less than its major competition although it is not as sophisticated a device.
View ArticleGoogle Book Accord Violates Treaties, Opponent Says
The Google book settlement breaks international laws and treaties, according to Cynthia Arato, a lawyer representing authors in New Zealand, Italy, Austria and other countries. Arato wrote that the...
View ArticleComic book illustrator Frank Frazetta dies at 82
Frank Frazetta, an illustrator of comic books, movie posters and paperback book covers whose visions of musclebound men fighting with swords and axes to defend scantily dressed women helped define...
View ArticleABC and ABA to Formalize Potential Merger Plan
The Association of Booksellers for Children and the American Booksellers Association moved another step closer to a possible merger this week with the release on Thursday of a letter of agreement.
View ArticleAmazon launches translation imprint
Translated eBooks just received a tremendous boost from an online bookseller. Today Amazon.com, Inc. unveiled an unexpected new foreign language imprint, AmazonCrossing.
View ArticleKindle for Android coming this summer
This summer Amazon.com will release Kindle for Android, a free e-book application that adds e-book support for Googles popular and fast growing mobile phone operating system.
View ArticlePenguin Books Celebrates 75 Years
The celebration kicked off on May 17--some 75 days before the official July 30 anniversary date--with the launch of a dedicated website, www.PenguinBooks75.com. Festivities take place through the...
View Article'Grandfather of French publishing' dies aged 93
Robert Laffont, affectionately known as the grandfather of French publishing, died on 19th May aged 93. The son of a naval officer, Laffont first embarked unenthusiastically on a legal career. But then...
View ArticleUS book sales up 8% year on year
Book sales tracked by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) are up 8 percent for the year to March 2010 versus the same period in 2009. Adult hardcovers rose 3.7 percent year on year; adult...
View ArticleMark Twain's autobiography to be published in
When Mark Twain died he left behind 5000 unedited pages of memoirs saying that he didn't want them published for one hundred years. 2010 marks one hundred years since Twain's death; so, in November,...
View ArticleMartin Gardner, Puzzler and Polymath, Dies at 95
Martin Gardner, who teased brains with math puzzles in Scientific American for a quarter-century and who indulged his own restless curiosity by writing more than 70 books on topics as diverse as magic,...
View ArticleMankell being held in Israel after Gaza aid flotilla
Wallander author Henning Mankell is one of nine Swedes being held in Israel after landing from the aid flotilla attacked by Israeli commandos yesterday morning
View ArticleNew Yorker '20 Under 40' List of Fiction Writers Worth Watching
The New Yorker has chosen its "20 Under 40" list of fiction writers worth watching. The last list was published in 1999 and included future literary stars such as Jhumpa Lahiri, Nathan Englander and...
View ArticleBEA: 2010 Survey of Book-Buying Behavior
Following up on a survey of readers first presented at the Winter Institute in San Jose, California, Jack McKeown, director of new business development for Verso Digital--and now a bookstore owner...
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