Washington D.C. tops most literate US city list for 4th year
According to the Center for Public Policy & Social Research at Central Connecticut State University, once again Washington, D.C. tops the list of most literate USA cities. The survey has been run...
View ArticleJames Patterson giving $1m to indie bookstores. 55 stores benefit to date
James Patterson has begun disbursing the $1 million he said he would donate this year to independent bookstores to help support them. For now, he's giving $267,000 to 55 bookstores as well as...
View ArticleKate DiCamillo and ABA Launch Indies First Storytime Day - See more at:...
Building on the success of the Indies First movement launched last year by Sherman Alexie, the American Booksellers Association today unveiled plans for Indies First Storytime Day, spearheaded by...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble confirms Nook division will continue to shrink
In a brief but informative conference call following the release of its third quarter results, Barnes & Noble executives talked about the downsizing of the Nook division, the need for the company...
View ArticleBooksellers file documents with Supreme Court arguing to upholding the...
The Media Coalition and a group of booksellers, librarians, publishers and media organizations have filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus, a case before the Supreme...
View ArticlePetition against Amazon "gangster bullies" gets support from author Anne Rice
Nearly 3,000 people, including author Anne Rice, have signed a petition asking Amazon.com to "protect users and indie publishing authors from bullying and harassment by removing anonymity and requiring...
View Article14 million children in UK & Ireland receive free book voucher on World Book Day
Today is World Book Day in the U.K and Ireland. The goal of the annual celebration "is to encourage children to explore the pleasures of books and reading by providing them with the opportunity to have...
View ArticleB&N slashes Nook investment in third-quarter - down 74% year on year
Barnes & Noble's filing with the SEC for the third quarter of fiscal 2014 shows how dramatically the company is scaling back its Nook operations. During the period ended January 25, 2014, Nook...
View ArticleSouthern California bookstores react strongly to LA Times decision to partner...
Fallout from the Los Angeles Times decision to partner with Amazon for its Festival of Books website sales continued yesterday, with an increasing number of indie bookstores and small presses weighing...
View ArticlePower of local indie businesses working together shown in results of...
According to stats from the American Bookseller Association, areas that have active Local First organizations, encouraging people to shop locally, saw a big difference in foot traffic and sales during...
View ArticleTwo weeks after launch, 50 authors already signed up for first ever "Indies...
Since the launch of Indies First Storytime Day just two weeks ago, more than 50 authors have signed on to read at independent bookstores across the USA on May 17, as part of this year's celebration of...
View ArticleLA Festival of Books adds Indiebound buy links alongside Amazon
In a move that seems a victory for the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association, the Los Angeles Times is in the process of adding IndieBound buy buttons to the Festival of Books'...
View ArticleReport shows rich-poor divide: rich read, poor watch
A research report from the English charity Booktrust, based on a survey of 1,500 adults, indicates a "worrying cultural divide" with poor adults much less likely to read books than their richer...
View ArticleNBCC announce their 2014 award winners
The National Book Critics Circle have announced the recipients of their 2014 book awards (for books published in 2013):Poetry: Frank Bidart, Metaphysical Dog (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Criticism:...
View ArticleSurvey indicates that more than two-thirds of Americans are actively engaged...
More than two-thirds of Americans are actively engaged with public libraries, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center, which polled 6,224 Americans ages 16 and older. The study, which...
View Article"How to Poo on a Date" wins oddest book title of the year
How to Poo on a Date: The Lovers' Guide to Toilet Etiquette has won the 36th annual Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. The book topped a public vote to find the oddest title. Joint second...
View ArticleHodder & Stoughton/Hachette to buy Quercus
Hodder & Stoughton, a division of the Hachette, has offered approximately £12.6 million (about US$21 million) to purchase Quercus Publishing, the U.K. independent publisher that launched in the USA...
View ArticleFirst ever California Bookstore Day to take place Saturday May 3.
The Northern California Independent Bookseller's Association plans to host the first ever California Bookstore Day on May 3, 2014 - a Saturday. The event's promo copy reads: "93 bookstores. 13...
View ArticleMain character of 3 movies based on J.K. Rowling's "Fantastic Beasts" will be...
Three megamovies are planned" for the adaptation of J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, one of Harry Potter's Hogwarts textbooks. Rowling wrote the 42 page book in 2001 for the UK...
View ArticleKaren Joy Fowler Wins 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Karen Joy Fowler won the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for her novel, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. The judges considered more than 430 novels and short story collections by American authors...
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