Barnes & Noble warns of low revenues in upcoming quarterly results
Barnes & Noble is warning that it will not meet expectations for another quarter. The company said late Wednesday that it will report results for the third quarter of the 2013 fiscal year before...
View ArticleDepartment of Justice approves Random House and Penguin merger
The US Department of Justice has approved the Penguin and Random House: The department notified Bertelsmann and Pearson "that it has closed its investigation into the proposed merger of Penguin and...
View ArticleDocumentary accuses Amazon of using neo-Nazi guards to keep immigrant...
Amazon is at the centre of a deepening scandal in Germany as the online shopping giant faced claims that it employed security guards with neo-Nazi connections to intimidate its foreign workers....
View ArticleAuthor files suit against Arthur Conan Doyle Estate asking that Holmes and...
Author and lawyer Leslie Klinger has filed a suit in the US federal court against the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate after the Estate recently tried to extract license fees from him. Klinger asks that the...
View ArticleIndie bookstores file class action suit against Amazon & big six publishers...
Three independent bookstores are taking Amazon and the so-called Big Six publishers (Random House, Penguin, Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Macmillan) to court in an attempt to level...
View ArticleB&N may drop the Nook; chair Leonard Riggio considering buying bookstore chain
Leonard Riggio, Barnes & Noble's chairman and largest shareholder, with 30% of the company's common stock, is exploring the possibility of buying out B&N's bookstore chain. Additionally, an...
View ArticleB&N Third Quarter: Nook Drags Down Results
Barnes & Noble's third quarter revenues (ending January 26) fell 8.8%, to $2.2 billion, and the net loss was $6.1 million, compared to net earnings of $52 million a year ago. Sales of $2.2 billion...
View ArticleLaw firm investigating Author Solutions and its subsidiaries including...
A New York City law firm is "investigating the practices" of Author Solutions and its subsidiaries AuthorHouse, iUniverse, Trafford, Xlibris, Inkubook and Wordclay. The firm said, "Authors using Author...
View ArticlePublishers oppose Amazon's bid to buy .book domain name
In a filing this week with ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) the Association of American Publishers came out against a bid by Amazon to buy the .book domain name for its...
View ArticleMore organizations rally to block Amazon from buying .book, .read etc domain...
More organizations, including the Authors Guild and Barnes & Noble, have filed objections to Amazon's request for future domain names such as .book, .author, .read, .app and more
View ArticleWomen's Prize for Fiction (formerly Orange Prize) longlist announced
The longlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly Orange Prize) has been announced, including Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith, Barbara Kingsolver, Maria Semple, Gillian Flynn and fifteen others.
View ArticleNew award for literary fiction: The $60,000 Folio Prize
A long anticipated rival to the UK's Man Booker Prize is now a reality with the announcement that the Literature Prize has a sponsor, The Folio Society, and will thus be known as the Folio Prize....
View ArticleTan Twan Eng wins Man Asian Literary Prize for The Garden of Evening Mists
Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng won this year's Man Asian Literary Prize for his novel The Garden of Evening Mists. Mr. Tan, the first Malaysian national to win the $30,000 prize, beat contenders from...
View ArticleAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters announces 19 winners
The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced today the names of 19 writers who will receive its 2013 awards in literature. The awards will be presented in New York in May at the Academy's annual...
View ArticleJanuary 2013 USA bookstore sales up 5.5% versions December
January bookstore sales rose 5.5%, to $2.1 billion, compared to December 2012, according to preliminary estimates from the Census Bureau. Total retail sales in January rose 6.1%, to $382.4 billion,...
View ArticleThe bestselling eBooks of 2012
Publishers Weekly estimate that over 1000 different titles sold 25,000+ ebooks in 2012
View ArticleSupreme Court decides that books purchased overseas can be sold in USA, with...
The Supreme Court have ruled 6-3 that the "first sale doctrine" applies to books purchased overseas. Specifically, the court decided that Supap Kirtsaeng (who is being sued by textbook publisher Wiley)...
View ArticleProtests continue over ban of memoir in Chicago schools
The controversy over the Chicago Public Schools restricting access to Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's memoir of her youth in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, continues to roil the nation's third...
View ArticleJames Herbert: UK horror author dies aged 69
Best-selling author James Herbert who wrote the horror classic The Rats, has died aged 69. Jeremy Trevathan, his editor for 10 years, described him as "one of the keystone authors in a genre that had...
View ArticleChinua Achebe, grandfather of modern African literature, has died aged 82
Nigerian novelist and poet Chinua Achebe, widely seen as a grandfather of modern African literature, has died at the age of 82. Achebe made his name more than 50 years ago with his novel "Things Fall...
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