Amazon discounts heavily in response to Overstock promotion
Amazon's weekend price slashing is apparently in response to an Overstock.com promotion to offer "hundreds of thousands" of books at least "10% off Amazon's book prices." Most of the Amazon prices...
View ArticleCrime fiction writer Leighton Gage dies aged 71
Crime fiction writer Leighton Gage has passed away. He was 71 years old. Over the course of Gage's career, he wrote seven-book series starring a Brazilian law enforcement officer named Chief Inspector...
View ArticleRowling to donate royalties to Soldier's Charity
J K Rowling has pledged to donate worldwide publishing royalties from The Cuckoo's Calling to The Soldier's Charity, formerly the Army Benevolent Fund, for a period of three years. Meanwhile Russells,...
View ArticleJeff Bezos buys Washington Post
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has signed a contract with the Washington Post Company to purchase its newspaper publishing business and other publishing assets for $250 million. The purchaser is not Amazon.com,...
View ArticleElmore Leonard doing well in hospital after stroke
Crime writer Elmore Leonard suffered a stroke a week ago and remains hospitalized at an undisclosed Detroit area hospital, his longtime researcher Gregg Sutter confirmed today. "Elmore had a stroke; it...
View ArticleBarbara Mertz (aka Elizabeth Peters & Barbara Michaels) dies aged 85
Barbara Mertz, who wrote more than 35 mysteries under the pseudonym Elizabeth Peters and 29 suspense novels as Barbara Michaels, died yesterday aged 85
View ArticleMillions Qualify for E-book Refunds
The $166 million USA publishers have agreed to pay to settle e-book price fixing charges with the states and consumer class could soon begin flowing to consumers - with more than 23 million accounts...
View ArticleCrime novelist Elmore Leonard dies
The prolific crime writer Elmore Leonard, whose books include Get Shorty and Out of Sight, has died in a hospital in Detroit, following a stroke. He was 87 years old, and is survived by 5 children and...
View ArticleApple says Feds plan to "give Amazon a significant competitive advantage in...
In court filings posted Monday morning, Apple attorney Orin Snyder responded to the Department of Justice's revised proposed punishment for the tech company in the ebooks case. Snyder criticized the...
View ArticleWe Need New Names & Burial Rites in running for Guardian First Book award
The longlist for the Guardian First Book award has been released. The award is worth GBP10,000 (about US$15,600). The winner will be announced in November. The longlisted books are: We Need New Names...
View ArticleApril sales data for USA shows $ sales of adult ebooks at parity with adult...
In April, total net book sales in the USA fell 3.1% compared to April 2012. The adult ebook market rose and the adult paperback book fell so that the two markets are now worth about the same amount...
View ArticlePoet Seamus Heaney dies aged 74
Seamus Heaney, considered by many as the best Irish poet since Yeats, has died aged 74. During his distinguished literary career he received many honors including the TS Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize,...
View ArticleSt Martin's Press publisher Matthew Shear dies aged 57
Matthew Shear, publisher of St. Martin's Press, died Wednesday aged 57. In his "Final Salute to Matthew Shear from His Friends in the Flatiron" Macmillan CEO John Sargent writes: For the last three...
View ArticleScience fiction Grand Master Frederik Pohl dies aged 93.
Science fiction Grand Master Frederik Pohl died over the weekend aged 93. A contemporary of Isaac Asimov, Jack Vance and James Blish, Pohl was one of the last of the last survivors of Science Fiction's...
View ArticleNew Kindle Paperwhite lets GoodReads members rate and share directly from Kindle
Amazon will start shipping a new version of the Kindle Paperwhite at the end of September with improved contrast and better lighting for $119. The new device also allows Goodreads members to rate books...
View ArticleKindle MatchBook to allow customers to purchase discounted Kindle editions of...
Amazon have announced that from October they will allow those who have purchased a print book from Amazon to buy the Kindle ebook version at a discounted price. Currently the program offers about...
View ArticleCharlie Hunnam and Dakota Johnson to star in Fifty Shades of Grey
Sons of Anarchy star Charlie Hunnam will play Christian Grey in Fifty Shades of Grey, the Universal Pictures and Focus Features adaptation of the bestselling book series. Newcomer Dakota Johnson,...
View ArticleNational Book Foundation to bestow lifetime awards on E. L. Doctorow and Maya...
The National Book Foundation will award its 2013 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to E. L. Doctorow and bestow its 2013 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American...
View ArticleOyster - "The Netflix for Books" now open
Oyster, a book subscription service that launched a few days ago, provides an all-you-can-read experience for a monthly fee of $9.95 a month. Currently Oyster offers 100,000 titles including books from...
View ArticleApple hit with U.S. injunction in e-books antitrust case
A U.S. judge who found Apple conspired to fix e-book prices imposed new restrictions on the iPad maker on Friday, limiting its agreements with publishers. An external monitor is also to be appointed to...
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