Former Cosmo editor, Helen Gurley Brown, dies aged 90
Helen Gurley Brown, who created the idea of a modern woman with her book "Sex and the Single Girl" and was editor in chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for three decades, has died at age 90, the Hearst...
View ArticleApple Refuses To Settle In DOJ Case
Apple has filed a new memo in its defense against the Department of Justice, stating that it will not settle with three book publishers, as has been proposed. Instead, Apple is seeking a trial.
View ArticleBookstore Sales Up 3.8% in June
June bookstore sales rose 3.8%, to $1.04 billion, compared to June 2011, according to preliminary estimates from the Census Bureau. For the year to date, bookstore sales have risen 0.6%, to $6.979...
View ArticleCarrie's War author, Nina Bawden, dies aged 87
British author Nina Bawden, best known for the childrens novel Carrie's War, died on August 22 at her home in London. She was 87.
View ArticleThe American Booksellers Association in partnership with Kobo to sell e-books...
As had long been rumored, the American Booksellers Association (which represents nearly 2000 independent bookstores in the USA) announced today that it is partnering with Kobo to give member stores an...
View ArticleHachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster agree to $69m state deal
The Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster have reached a $69 million agreement that will resolve lawsuits brought by 54 attorney generals from 49 states, the District of Columbia...
View ArticleMedia giant sees 31% increase in earnings due to "Fifty Shades" trilogy
Experiencing a major rise from E.L. James' "Fifty Shades" trilogy, German media giant Bertelsmann (which owns Random House, the world's largest trade publishing group) enjoyed a dramatic surge in...
View ArticleJo Walton wins Hugo Best Novel award for "Among Others".
The 2012 Hugo Awards were announced on Saturday at the 70th World Science Fiction Convention. More than fifteen awards were given including the Best Novel sward which went to Jo Walton for Among Others...
View ArticleGiller Prize longlist announced.
The 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury announced its longlist of 13 books and authors today, having read 142 works of fiction submitted by 50 publishers from every region of Canada. The finalists will...
View Article"Sock puppet" reviews condemned
Authors including Lee Child, Mark Billingham, Joanne Harris, Charlie Higson and Tony Parsons have signed up to a group statement condemning sock puppetry, the practice of writing reviews pseudonymously...
View ArticleJudge approves e-book pricing settlement between government and publishers
In a decision that could start an e-book price war in the publishing industry, a federal judge on Thursday approved a settlement between the Justice Department and three major publishers in a civil...
View ArticleMan Booker Prize Shortlist announced
The six titles on the 2012 Booker Shortlist have been announced: Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists Deborah Levy, Swimming Home (not yet available in US) Hilary Mantel, Bring up the Bodies...
View Article55% of YA books bought by adults
More than half the consumers of books classified for young adults aren't all that young. According to a new study, fully 55% of buyers of works that publishers designate for kids aged 12 to 17 -- known...
View ArticleAmazon collecting sales tax in California from today
Amazon and other large online retailers will begin collecting sales tax in California today. At the time California Governor Jerry Brown signed the sales tax fairness bill in September 2011, American...
View ArticlePoet Louis Simpson dies aged 89
Louis Simpson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose work often explored the darker side of life in the US suburbs, has died at his New York home aged 89. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1964 for...
View ArticleBanned Books Week "celebrates" 30th Year!
Banned Books Week (Sept 30-Oct 6) is celebrating, for want of a better term, its 30th year! For a short history of book banning in the USA and links to this year's Banned Books Week events and list of...
View ArticleA Dozen Fantastic Fiction Recommendations for October
Tuesday October 2nd is one of the biggest publishing days of the year, if not the biggest, with hundreds of new titles hitting the shelves. None of us have time to read all of them, not even to read...
View ArticleAmazon ships Kindle Paperwhite
Amazon is shipping its new Kindle Paperwhite device today. It is a touchscreen high contrast eReader with a built in light for reading in the dark - similar to B&N's Nook with GlowLight that...
View ArticleJunot Dias and Dinaw Mengestu among the 22 recipients of this year's...
Authors Junot Díaz and Dinaw Mengestu are among the twenty-two people to be awarded MacArthur "genius" grants. The MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who...
View ArticlePublishers and Google reach settlement after seven year lawsuit
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Google today announced a settlement agreement that will provide access to publishers' in-copyright books and journals digitized by Google for its Google...
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