Man Booker Prize shortlist announced
The shortlist for the Man Booker Prize has just been announced: We Need New Names by NoViolet BulawayoThe Luminaries by Eleanor CattonThe Harvest by Jim CraceThe Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri A Tale for the...
View ArticleJK Rowling to write Harry Potter spin-off film - Fantastic Beasts and Where...
JK Rowling is to make her screenwriting debut in a new Harry Potter-themed film series, Warner Bros has announced. The first film of the series will be titled Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them....
View ArticleNational Book Foundation announce winners of 5 Under 35. All five authors are...
The National Book Foundation have announced their 5 Under 35 authors for 2013. Two of the authors' books are yet to publish and another is not available yet in the USA. All five of the authors are...
View ArticleBooks Are My Bag campaign launches in UK
Saturday Sept 14 marks the biggest every campaign for bookstores in the UK, with the launch of the Books Are My Bag campaign, starting with the Big Bookshop Party on Saturday. The celebration of books...
View ArticleMan Booker Prize likely to open award to USA entries
The Sunday Times reported yesterday that entries for the Man Booker Prize would be opened to American authors from 2014. Currently, the prize is only open to writers from the UK, Ireland and the...
View Article8 years after Google starts to scan books, Author's Guild asks judge to...
In its final brief before oral arguments, the Authors Guild this week closed by imploring Judge Denny Chin to shoot down Google's book scanning program, and let Congress ask questions later. "The fair...
View ArticleJames Patterson to give $1 million to US bookstores that have children's...
James Patterson plans to give $1 million to support independent bookstores that have a children's section. No specifics have been released as yet but interested parties can sign up for more information...
View ArticleTwitter book club for commuters opens in UK
The Rail Book Club, a Twitter based book club has opened in the UK with the aim of bringing passenger reviews and book recommendations to commuters via digital screens in stations throughout the...
View ArticleMove to internet sales tax fairness inches forward
Yesterday the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), released a list of seven principles on Internet tax fairness intended to provide a framework for future discussions. The...
View ArticleMan Booker Prize opens to US entries with new rule that limits the number of...
Publishers have welcomed the broadening of the Man Booker Prize to include U.S. entries, while remaining concerned about the limits placed on the number of titles they can enter. The Man Booker...
View ArticleNational Book Awards Long Lists Announced
Over the last week or so, the National Book Foundation has been releasing the long lists for its National Book Awards. The last of these lists, for fiction, was released today. All lists can be found...
View ArticleAmazon warehouse workers sue to be paid for time spent in screening checks
A growing number of Amazon.com warehouse workers are suing the online retail giant and its contractors for requiring them to undergo time-consuming and unpaid security screenings in order to do their...
View ArticleAAP reports half year sales - total book sales down 4.5%
In the first half of the year, total net book sales fell 4.5%, to $5.491 billion, compared to the first half of 2012, representing sales of 1,196 publishers and distributed clients as reported to the...
View ArticleRadioShack and Staples remove Amazon lockers from their stores
Staples and RadioShack have removed the Amazon lockers from their stores a year after introducing the program. The program was aimed at customers in cities worried about the safety of packages being...
View Article54% of adults read a book for pleasure in 2012
According to the just released results of the National Endowment for the Arts 2012 Survey, 54% of American adults read a work of literature or a book (fiction or nonfiction) not required for work or...
View ArticleAmazon raises minimum "free super saver shipping" order to $35
Amazon has raised its minimum order for "Free Super Saver Shipping" from $25 to $35, saying to customers that "this is the first time in more than a decade that Amazon has altered the minimum order for...
View Article35 titles for World Book Night 2014. titles announced. Half a million copies...
World Book Night 2014 will be on October 23 in both the UK and USA. Half a million copies will be given away for free in the USA. The 35 World Book Night U.S. titles for 2014 are:The Zookeeper's Wife,...
View ArticleBrouhaha brewing at GoodReads from disaffected longtime members. Extensive...
Salon has an extensive article about the small but growing faction of longtime, deeply involved Goodreads members who are up in arms about recent changes to the site's enforcement of its policies on...
View ArticleScribd launches new ebook subscription service
Scribd has launched an updated subscription service that lets you read unlimited books for $8.99/month with the first month free. In their email to existing Scribd users they claim to have available...
View ArticleAmazon's editorial head, Larry Kirshbaum, leaving; company scales back...
Larry Kirshbaum, editorial head of Amazon's New York and Seattle adult imprints and children's publishing, is leaving the company early next year. In connection with his departure, the most ambitious...
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