Amazon to open bricks and mortar store in Seattle
Last week, the word in the blogosphere was that Amazon was considering opening a bricks-and-mortar store. Over the weekend goodereader.com added substance to the rumors saying, "Amazon sources close to...
View ArticlePenguin withdraws new ebooks from Overdrive, looks for new library partners
Penguin Group USA have announced that with immediate effect it "will no longer offer additional copies of ebooks and audiobooks for purchase via Overdrive" and is severing their ongoing relationship...
View ArticleJeffrey Zaslow, author of Gabby, Highest Duty and The Last Lecture dies aged 53
Author Jeffrey Zaslow died in a car accident last week at the age of 53. He was the author of The Girls From Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship, The Magic Room: A Story About The Love...
View ArticleJournalist and author Anthony Shadid dies in Syria
Anthony Shadid, a foreign correspondent and author who wrote dispatches from the Middle East for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The Associated Press for almost two...
View ArticleAmazon removes Kindle versions of IPG books from sale
Amazon has removed all ebooks published by Independent Publishers Group (IPG). IPG is the second-largest independent book distributor in the USA representing over 700 publishers. IPG President Mark...
View ArticleLegendary publisher Barney Rosset dies aged 89
Legendary publisher Barney Rosset has died aged 89. Rosset bought Grove Press in the 1950s, and championed the works of countless writers, including: Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Jack Kerouac, Malcolm...
View ArticleJK Rowling's first adult novel is coming
Little, Brown has world English rights to the first novel for adults by JK Rowling, the company announced Thursday morning. All details, including title, publication date and topic will be announced...
View ArticleGoogle ebooks dumps some bookstore affiliates after freezing program for new...
After a two-week pause in adding new members, on Thursday evening Google e-mailed a number of affiliates that sell Google eBooks, including independent booksellers, and announced that they are being...
View ArticleSales Tax Fairness: Utah House Passes Legislation
The Utah House of Representatives passed legislation yesterday by a 69-0 vote "that would require remote retailers with nexus in Utah via distribution centers or subsidiaries to collect and remit sales...
View ArticleFrench project intends to fund digitization of half a million out of print...
A plan to digitize half a million "unavailable" books from the 20th century is drawing fire from authors - 900 of whom have signed a petition saying the scheme is an abuse of their intellectual...
View ArticleUS Justice Dept. may sue Apple and five major publishers
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Justice Department has warned Apple and Penguin, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster that it plans to sue them for allegedly...
View ArticleOrange Prize longlist announced
The Orange Prize longlist has been announced. The 20-title list includes The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue, Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan, The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape),...
View ArticleUS Justice Department may sue Apple and five major publishers over ebook pricing
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Justice Department has warned Apple and Penguin, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster that it plans to sue them for allegedly...
View Article2012 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
The 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award winners have been announced: Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman (fiction), Liberty's Exiles by Maya Jasanoff (nonfiction), George F. Kennan by John Lewis...
View ArticleFrench graphic mag artist Jean Giraud, known as Moebius, dies at 73
Jean Giraud, one of France's leading comics artists, has died in Paris at the age of 73 after a long illness. He drew for more than 50 years, under various names, but was most widely known as Moebius.
View ArticleHunger Games presells over 1 million tickets ahead of Friday opening
The Hunger Games movie, the first in a planned trilogy based on the book trilogy of the same name by author Suzanne Collins, has already presold 1 million tickets ahead of its opening this Friday.
View ArticleUK Publishers Association calls for abolition of 20% VAT on e-books to align...
The Publishers Association in the UK is calling for the government to abolish the 20% VAT rate on e-books, putting pressure on chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne ahead of the Budget today to...
View Article11lbs of marijuana intercepted on its way to fictitious St Martin's Press...
Someone mailed more than eleven pounds of marijuana to the offices of St. Martin's Press at the Flatiron Building in Manhattan today. Bound for an apparently fictitious employee named Karen Wright, the...
View ArticleUSA book sales report 11.5% growth in Jan, gains in both print and digital
The Association of American Publishers reports a gain in net sales of 11.5% in January 2012 versus the previous year. The AAP said that publishers attributed "the near-total across-the-board percentage...
View ArticlePoet Adrienne Rich dies aged 82
Poet Adrienne Rich has died aged 82. In its obituary, The New York Times describes Rich as "a poet of towering reputation and towering rage, whose work - distinguished by an unswerving progressive...
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