Walter Dean Myers dead at 76
Celebrated children's and YA author Walter Dean Myers known for writing books about young African Americans, such as "Monster" and "Fallen Angels," has died. He was 76.
View ArticleWorld Book Night USA to cease citing expense. UK WBN to continue
After three years World Book Night in America is to cease. In a statement, executive director Carl Lennertz cited lack of outside funding as the main reason for ending the book-giving project: "The...
View ArticleLouis Zamperini, the subject of Laura Hillenbrand's "Unbroken" has died aged 97
Louis Zamperini,,1936 Olympian and the subject of Laura Hillenbrand's bestselling nonfiction book Unbroken, died July 2 of pneumonia aged 97. Random House Publishing Group president and publisher Gina...
View ArticleOpen letter to readers asking for help with Amazon-Hachette dispute now has...
An open letter, signed by a number of bestselling authors, is calling on Amazon "to resolve its dispute with Hachette without hurting authors and without blocking or otherwise delaying the sale of...
View ArticleAmazon proposal to Hachette "like a mugger wanting praise for donating stolen...
Summarized from Shelf Awareness.... It seems a bit like a mugger wanting praise for donating stolen goods to a charity. In a new twist to the Amazon-Hachette dispute, David Naggar, Amazon's v-p of...
View ArticleNadine Gordimer, dead at 90
Nadine Gordimer, the South African writer whose literary ambitions led her into the heart of apartheid to create a body of fiction that brought her a Nobel Prize in 1991, died on Monday in...
View ArticleApple pleads Second Circuit saying judge's price fixing decision was an...
In an appeal filing with the Second Circuit, Apple attorneys pressed their argument that Judge Denise Cote blew it when she found Apple liable for its role in an alleged conspiracy to fix e-book...
View ArticleUSA bookstore sales down 8.0% percent year on year to May
USA bookstore sales continue their downward trend with May sales 7.5% lower year on year. Comparing the first five months of 2014 to 2013, bookstore sales are down 8.0% compared with a 3.4% rise in the...
View ArticleIn response to Amazon, Baldacci, Child, Deaver, Patterson, Tartt and many...
The group of writers who signed an open letter earlier this month regarding the Amazon/Hachette dispute are now "developing a long-term strategy" under the banner Authors United, the Bookseller...
View ArticleMan Booker 2014 Longlist Announced
The first Man Booker prize to admit novels from across the globe as long as they are written in English has published its longlist.
View Article45 of current top 100 Amazon Bestsellers are Kindle Unlimited titles. Should...
Amazon's new "Kindle Unlimited" program that allows unlimited downloads of about 600,000 books (about 500,000 of which are self-published) for a monthly subscription appears to be having a significant...
View ArticleAmazon second quarter losses higher than expected.
Amazon sales in the second quarter rose 23%, to $19.34 billion, in line with analysts' expectations, but the net loss of $126 million was deeper than expected. In addition, the company said it expects...
View ArticleHarperCollins completes purchase of Harlequin for C$455 million
HarperCollins' parent company News Corp has completed its acquisition of Harlequin Enterprises for C$455 million in cash from Torstar Corporation. Harlequin, best known as a publisher of women's...
View Article"Where The Heart Is" author Billie Letts dead at 76
Billie Letts, author of novels including "Where The Heart Is" (an Oprah book club pick) has died in Tulsa aged 76.
View ArticleAuthors United take full page ad in Sunday NY Times to send open letter to...
Authors United, a group of nearly 1,000 authors led by Douglas Preston, is running a full-page ad in this Sunday's New York Times, the Bookseller reported. The ad reproduces the open letter that the...
View ArticlePerseus Books Group calls off sale to Hachette and Ingram
The sale of Perseus Books Group to Hachette Book Group and Ingram Content Group has been called off. "Despite much effort from all three parties, we could not reach agreement on everything necessary to...
View ArticleAmazon issues strange note to Kindle authors about its dispute with Hachette
Late Friday night Amazon issued another strange note about its dispute with Hachette, this time in the form of a letter from the "Amazon Books Team" to Kindle Direct Publishing authors with the subject...
View ArticleHachette CEO's reply re Amazon dispute...
The following is the reply that Hachette Book Group CEO Michael Pietsch is sending to those who are writing to him after Amazon contacted its Kindle authors on Friday, providing Pietsch's personal...
View ArticleYour local bookstore needs you - US bookstore sales down 8% year on year!
Bookstore sales in the USA are down 7.9% for the half year to June. The Census Bureau definition of the bookstore category is "establishments primarily engaged in retailing a general line of new books....
View ArticleFirst ever Independent Bookstore Day to be May 2, 2015
Inspired by the success of the first California Bookstore Day, all nine USA regional booksellers associations are planning a national Independent Bookstore Day next May 2. One of the first orders of...
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