2014 Hugo Awards announced
This year's Hugo Awards were announced yesterday at the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention in London (Loncon 3) Best Novel: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Orbit US / Orbit UK) Best Novella:...
View ArticleNook Media launch 7" Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 NOOK - "first fully featured...
Nook Media (a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble and Samsung) have launched a new co-branded 7-inch tablet that combines Samsung technology with Nook content and reading experience. Described by B&N...
View ArticleJapanese publishers push back at new Amazon commission structure which is...
A group of Japanese publishers have lashed out at Amazon's new book sale rules, after US and European authors accused the online retailer of using strong-arm negotiating tactics.
View ArticleMan Booker Prize Shortlist Announced
LONDON The American authors Joshua Ferris and Karen Joy Fowler are among the six writers selected for the shortlist of the 2014 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, announced on Tuesday. Also on the...
View ArticleBarnes and Noble quarter sales down 7%. Net loss of $28m - but loss is less...
Barnes and Nobles sales fell 7% in the quarter ending August 2, with a net loss of $28.4 million, compared to a net loss of $87 million in the same period a year ago. The results were in line with Wall...
View ArticleForbes highest earners list adds John Green, Gillian Flynn and Veronica Roth
Forbes have published their annual list of highest-earning authors (measured from June 2013 to June 2014). E.L. James, author of the 50 Shades books is still in the list, but not at the top, and some...
View ArticleReading is alive and well! 88% of Millennials (aged 16-29) have read a book...
88% of Americans aged 16-29 (aka Millennials) have read a book in the past year. This is higher than the 79% of those aged 30+ who have reada book in the past year. Of the Millennials 37% read at least...
View ArticleNY Times announce 12 new specialty bestseller lists including Humor, Travel,...
The New York Times Book Review is adding 12 new monthly bestseller charts to its current line up and will also publish some lists in print that were only available online. Apparently a newly designed...
View ArticleAdvocates for Independent Business launch #efairnessnow campaign
Advocates for Independent Business, a coalition that includes the American Booksellers Association and a number of Local First groups, is launching #efairnessnow, a social media campaign in support of...
View ArticleNational Book Foundation's YA longlist
The National Book Award longlist for this year's Young People's Literature category is: The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson (Viking)Girls Like Us by Gail Giles (Candlewick)Skink: No...
View ArticleNational Book Award for Nonfiction Longlist
New York, NY (September 17, 2014) The National Book Foundation announces the Longlist for the 2014 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Finalists will be revealed on October 15. The Nonfiction...
View ArticleMacArthur Genius Grants
This year's 21 MacArthur fellows have been announced including cartoonist and graphic memoirist Alison Bechdel, translator and Poet Khaled Mattawa, poet Terrance Hayes and playwright Samuel Hunter....
View ArticleNational Book Award longlist for fiction - all books on BookBrowse, most with...
The National Book Awards have announced their fiction longlist Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press/ Grove/Atlantic) Molly Antopol, The UnAmericans (W. W. Norton & Company) John...
View ArticleNational Book Awards nonfiction longlist announced...
The National Book Awards have announced their nonfiction longlist consisting of 10 titles: Roz Chast, Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Bloomsbury) John Demos, The Heathen School: A Story...
View ArticlePenguin Random House agree first look deal with Universal Pictures
Penguin Random House is deepening its commitment to bringing more of its books to movie screens. Through a two-year first-look agreement with Universal Pictures, which will be overseen by Random House...
View ArticleRalph Cosham, voice of Armand Gamache in Louise Penny's books, has died
Ralph Cosham, the narrator of Louise Penny's Armand Gamache series and many other audio books has died suddenly. Louise Penny posted the following on her Facebook page this morning: "Just received the...
View Article5 Under 35 honorees are Yelena Akhtiorskaya, Alex Gilvarry, Phil Klay,...
The National Book Foundation has announced the 2014 "5 Under 35" honorees, recognizing five young fiction writers. The honorees are all chosen by previous National Book Award winners and finalists:...
View ArticleMore than 450,000 self published books released in 2013 - and that's just in...
Bowker's latest report on the number of self-published titles rose again in 2013, increasing 16.5%, to 458,564. The increase was due to an increase in new print books which rose 28.8% to 302,622...
View ArticleHarperCollins expands into Germany, its first foray into foreign-language...
In its first foray into foreign-language publishing, HarperCollins is creating HarperCollins Germany with a first list of 50 titles. The new operation is an expansion of the Harlequin publishing...
View ArticlePatrick Modiano Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Patrick Modiano, the French novelist whose works often explore the traumas of the Nazi occupation of France and hinge on the themes of memory, alienation and the puzzle of identity, won the 2014 Nobel...
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