Three-quarters of US public libraries offer e-book lending services but half...
While three-quarters of USA public libraries now offer e-book lending services, a new survey shows that while 58% of respondents have a library card and 69% consider the library important to them and...
View ArticleBooks-A-Million adds voice to oppose Dept. of Justice e-book price fixing deal
Books-A-Million has joined the growing number of parties objecting to the Department of Justices agreement with Simon & Schuster, Hachette and HarperCollins to settle the departments e-book price...
View ArticleAnne Enright and Robert Massie win first ever Andrew Carnegie Medals for...
The winners of the first ever Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were announced at the American Library Association annual conference in Anaheim yesterday. The winners are...
View ArticleNora Ephron dies aged 71
The essayist, screenwriter, and filmmaker Nora Ephron has died at the age of 71. She will be remembered for her romantic comedies including Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally, and her...
View ArticleNews Corp may split HarperCollins, WSJ & Times into separate company
News Corp is considering a division into two companies, splitting its publishing assets - including HarperCollins, the London Times and The Wall Street Journal - from its entertainment businesses,...
View ArticleIndie Publishers Back Agency Model, Criticize DoJ Deal
Nine independent publishers have combined to file joint comments objecting to the pending settlements of the Department of Justice's lawsuit with Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster...
View ArticleGabriel Garcia Marquez no longer able to write due to dementia
According to his brother Jaime García Márquez, Nobel prizewinning author Gabriel García Márquez is suffering from senile dementia. Thus it is unlikely that the 85-year-old will complete the second part...
View ArticleUSA sales of "Fifty Shades of Grey" series to hit 20 million copies this week.
The "Fifty Shades" erotic trilogy is expected to hit the 20 million-sales mark in the U.S. this week, making it one of the fastest-selling book series in recent memory. Sales figures relate to copies...
View ArticleProject Gutenberg, the granddaddy of all digitization programs, now has...
Project Gutenberg may have long since been surpassed by the Internet Archive and Google Books, but the granddaddy of all digitization programs is still chugging along and uploading more free ebooks -...
View ArticleStephen Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, has...
Motivational author Stephen Covey, who wrote the best-selling The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, has died at the age of 79.
View ArticleElse Holmelund Minarik, author of Little Bear Books, dies at 91
Else Holmelund Minarik, a writer for children whose Little Bear picture-book series which simply, gently and evocatively tells the story of an anthropomorphized cubs forays into the wider world ...
View ArticleeBooks now the dominant format in USA adult fiction - with 30 percent of sales
Digital books are now the dominant single format in the adult fiction category, according to a new BookStats joint report from the Association of American Publishers and the Book Industry Study...
View ArticlePenguin Group buys self-publishing service Author Solutions For $116m
In the first significant investment by a major trade publisher in self-publishing, Pearson announced Thursday morning that it has acquired self-publishing service Author Solutions from Bertram Capital...
View ArticleDept. of Justice proposed e-book price fixing lawsuit to go ahead despite 92...
Despite 92% of the 868 received comments opposing the settlement, and most of those against appearing to be very similar to an online form letter, the Department of Justice are not budging on their...
View ArticleBooker longlist of 12 books includes Hilary Mantel, Will Self, and 4 first...
The Booker Prize longlist has been announced including four first novelists (indicated by asterisks below): Nicola Barker, The Yips Ned Beauman, The Teleportation Accident Andre Brink, Philida Tan Twan...
View ArticleGoogle argues that its book search passes fair use tests 'with ease'
In its motion for Summary Judgment in the Authors Guild vs. Google, filed on July 27, Google attorneys argue that its keyword searchable index of books scanned from library shelves "passes with ease"...
View ArticleRIP Maeve Binchy
Best-selling Irish author Maeve Binchy has died aged 72 after a short illness. Binchy's books have sold more than 40 million books and have been translated into 37 languages.
View ArticleGore Vidal has died, aged 86
Gore Vidal, an eclectic author who faithfully chronicled the major shifts and upheavals in the United States in books, essays and plays, has died. He was 86.
View ArticleHumorist David Rakoff dies aged 47
Humorist and essayist David Rakoff died yesterday at the age of 47 after a three year battle with cancer. A frequent contributor to This American Life, Rakoff authored the essay collections Fraud...
View ArticleOrange Prize for Fiction might well soon be the Apple Prize
The well respected prize that celebrates the best of women's international fiction that has, since 1995, been known as The Orange Prize for Fiction, might well soon become the Apple Prize for Fiction -...
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