Amazon breaks silence on Hachette-Amazon rift but no solution in sight for...
Amazon has finally broken its silence over the dispute with Hachette, saying that while the two sides are working hard, Amazon is "not optimistic [the issue] will be resolved soon." For its part,...
View ArticleKirkus announces new book awards worth $150,000 per year
Kirkus Reviews has founded the Kirkus Prize to honor "outstanding writing by authors whose books have earned the Kirkus Star in the categories of fiction, nonfiction and young readers' literature." All...
View ArticleFirst BookCon show at BEA draws sell out crowd of 10,000 readers
BookExpo America ended with a bang: the first BookCon show drew 10,000 excited book fans who swarmed over the parts of the Javits Center on Saturday. "They're scary and inspiring at the same time,"...
View ArticleWall Street Journal blames Justice Department for Amazon-Hachette dispute
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, former WSJ publisher L. Gordon Crovitz, calls the current dispute between Amazon and Hachette "the legacy of the Justice Department's doing Amazon's bidding and...
View ArticleAmy Einhorn joining new Macmillan's Flatiron Books
Amy Einhorn, who recently left her eponymous imprint at Penguin Random House, is joining Macmillan's Flatiron Books imprint as senior v-p and publisher. She will start at Flatiron on July 21. No date...
View ArticleB&N steps back into the tablet market with agreement to co-brand tablets with...
Barnes & Noble has reached an agreement with Samsung for the technology giant to develop co-branded tablets that will include Nook software.
View ArticleAmazon's supplier battles expand to Warner Home Video
The Everything Store is shrinking again. Amazon customers who want to order forthcoming Warner Home Video features, including "The Lego Movie,""300: Rise of an Empire,""Winter's Tale" and...
View ArticleSpot the Dog author Eric Hill dies aged 86
Eric Hill, the children's author who topped bestseller charts with his brightly-coloured picture books about the mischievous yellow puppy Spot, has died at the age of 86 at his home in California after...
View ArticleImpac Dublin award goes to Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vásquez has won the 100,000 Impac award for his exploration of Colombia's drug trade, The Sound of Things Falling. One of the world's richest literary prizes, the...
View ArticleCharles Wright to be new poet laureate
The Library of Congress is to announce on Thursday that the next poet laureate will be 78-year-old Charles Wright. Wright, a retired professor at the University of Virginia, has already won just about...
View ArticleFoyles opens new flagship "bookshop of the future" on Charing Cross Road
"If God had been a bookseller, he could have done no better than welcoming you to this temple of words," Hilary Mantel (now Dame Hilary) told the crowd gathered at Foyles bookshop in London last Friday...
View ArticleAmazon likely to launch smartphone with ereader & smartphone technology
Amazon is expected to introduce a smartphone on Wednesday at an event in Seattle, a long-rumored project that aims to close any remaining gap between the impulse to buy and the completed act.
View ArticleBookCon to get its own two day show next year. BEA to be cut to 2.5 days
Next year's BookExpo America - the USA's leading publishing trade event - will take a different format to this year's event (which in turn was different to previous years). Next year BEA will run for...
View ArticleAuthor of English classroom classic, "Flowers for Algernon" dies aged 86
Daniel Keyes, the author of "Flowers for Algernon," the story of a man with an I.Q. of 68 who temporarily becomes a genius after surgery a book that inspired the film "Charly," starring Cliff...
View ArticleSir Salman Rushdie awarded Pen Pinter prize
Sir Salman Rushdie has been named the recipient of this year's Pen Pinter prize. The Pen Pinter was established in 2009 in memory of British writer Harold Pinter, by writers' charity English Pen. Sir...
View ArticleHachette employee speaks off the record about Amazon's "inventive" tactics to...
The New York Times spoke with an unnamed employee at Hachette who speaking off the record about Amazon's dispute with Hachette says that Amazon has been demanding payments for a range of services,...
View ArticleHachette to buy Perseus Books Group - plans to keep publishing imprints but...
The owners of the Perseus Books Group have agreed to a sale of the company, in an unusual three-way transaction. All things being equal, Hachette Book Group is purchasing PBG, and then in turn will...
View ArticleB&N to break into 2 public companies: Retail stores and College bookstores +...
The Barnes & Noble board of directors has given its approval to separate B&N into two public companies with one holding the retail trade stores and the other holding its Nook operations plus...
View ArticleFAA reconfirms ban on Amazon drones & other "model aircraft" from delivering...
After a federal judge ruled in March that the Federal Aviation Administration had acted illegally in banning the use of commercial drones to deliver packages because it had not first taken public...
View ArticleAll The Birds Singing by Evie Wyld wins Miles Franklin Literary Award,...
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld has won the $60,000 Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia's most prestigious book prize, honoring a novel "of the highest literary merit and which must present...
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