World Book Night book list to be announced in Nov
A committee of booksellers and librarians will select the 25 books for the inaugural World Book Night in U.S., to be held next April 23. World Book Night will involve 40,000 people giving away a...
View ArticleAssange savages "duplicitous" publisher for publishing his memoir even though...
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has accused Canongate of "old-fashioned opportunism and duplicity" over it publishing of his memoir today without his approval (Assange previously signed a contract...
View ArticleCalif. governor signs compromise on Internet taxes
Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Friday that postpones new sales taxes rules that would have affected online purchases in California, granting more time for traditional and online retailers to lobby...
View ArticleKenya's Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai dies aged 71
Kenya's Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai has died in Nairobi while undergoing cancer treatment. She was 71. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for promoting conservation, women's rights and...
View ArticleAmazon unveils Kindle Fire
Amazon has unveiled the Kindle Fire, an Android-powered tablet that will retail for $199. "We're building premium products at non-premium prices," says Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. The specifications are...
View ArticleCA extends library privacy laws to book purchases and e-books
California Governor Jerry Brown this week signed into law a bill that will extend privacy protections currently in place for library records to book purchases, including e-books.
View ArticleAmazon's California affiliates invited to re-enroll
Amazon is inviting its 10,000-plus former California affiliates to re-enroll. All CA affiliate contracts were terminated in June after the state passed an online sales tax measure.
View ArticleBob Dylan last minute favorite to win Nobel Literature Prize?
Do people placing bets at UK bookmaker Ladbrokes know something the rest of us don't? Out of nowhere Bob Dylan has moved up to be the favorite to win this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. According...
View ArticleSteve Jobs dead aged 56
Steve Jobs, the visionary who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world's leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the...
View ArticleNobel Prize Goes to Transtromer
Tomas Tranströmer, called "Sweden's most famous poet," has won the 104th Nobel Prize for Literature. Tranströmer, born in Stockholm in 1931, has been translated into over 50 languages. A number of his...
View ArticleWalter Isaacson bio of Steve Job publishing soon
Walter Isaacson's forthcoming biography of Steve Jobs has been moved up to October 24. The 656-page book will include an interview Isaacson conducted with Jobs four weeks ago.
View ArticleAmazon & Tennesse reach agreement on sales tax
The Tennessee government has reached a deal with Amazon that will require the online retailer to start collecting Tennessee sales tax in 2014 in exchange for 2,000 full-time jobs at new distribution...
View ArticleLev Grossman's 'The Magicians' to be serialized
Fox has preemptively bought Magicians, a drama series adaptation of Lev Grossmans popular fantasy novel, with a script commitment plus penalty.
View ArticleOverDrive WIN could turn libraries into virtual ebookstores
A new initiative by OverDrive (the company behind most ebook lending in libraries) could turn libraries into virtual ebookstores. The idea is that if a patron searches for an ebook in one of...
View ArticleDigital transformation of book world happening faster than expected.
According to Shelf Awareness's comprehensive report of the first day of talks at the Frankfurt Book Fair yesterday, the news is all about ebooks, with many book people outside the U.S. wanted to learn...
View ArticleConnecticut pushes Amazon on sales tax
Connecticut has joined many other cash-strapped states across the country in demanding that Amazon collect sales tax on internet purchases made by residents of the state. According to the General...
View ArticleNew 'Literature Prize' set up to compete with Booker
A new literary award, The Literature Prize, has been set up to "establish a clear and uncompromising standard of excellence", with the advisory board claiming that the Man Booker Prize no longer does...
View ArticleNational Book Award finalists announced
The finalists for the 2011 National Book Awards were named yesterday by the National Book Foundation. The fiction shortlist is The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obrecht (Random House) The Buddha in the Attic by...
View ArticleLost CS Forester book to be published
The Pursued - a crime novel written in 1935 by Horatio Hornblower creator CS Forester that was thought lost - is to be published for the first time in November. It was lost after the English author...
View ArticleAmazon signs authors direct, cutting publishers out of deal
Amazon will publish 122 books this fall in an array of genres, in both physical and e-book form. It is a striking acceleration of the retailers fledging publishing program that will place Amazon...
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