Amazon to open store near Empire State Building
According to The Wall Street Journal, Amazon will soon open a new brick-and-mortar store across the street from the Empire State Building in what is believed to be a test of the physical location...
View ArticleAustralian Author Wins Man Booker Prize
Australian author Richard Flanagan has won the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for his wartime novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Flanagan's novel is set during the construction of the Thailand-Burma...
View ArticleNational Book Award Fiction Shortlist Announced
The National Book Awards have announced their fiction shortlist Rabih Alameddine,An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press/ Grove/Atlantic) Anthony Doerr,All the Light We Cannot See (Scribner/ Simon &...
View ArticleNational Book Foundation Announces YA Shortlist
The National Book Award shortlist for this year's Young People's Literature category is: Threatened by Eliot Schrefer (Scholastic)The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights...
View ArticleNational Book Awards Shortlist for Nonfiction Announced
The National Book Awards have announced their nonfiction shortlist consisting of five titles: Roz Chast, Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Bloomsbury) Anand Gopal, No Good Men Among the...
View ArticleAmazon sales rose 20% in 3rd qtr but lost $544m
Amazon's release of its third quarter financial results Thursday afternoon gave analysts and investors lots to think about as the giant e-tailer posted a large quarterly loss, forecast the possibility...
View ArticleMark your calendars for Small Business Saturday and Indies First Day -...
Mark your calendars for Small Business Saturday and Indies First Day - November 29, just after Thanksgiving. Many authors will be volunteering at their favorite independent bookstores. Contact your...
View ArticleMass market paperback sales down, but far from out
When sales of e-books in the USA doubled in 2011 compared with 2010, many in the publishing industry predicted the quick demise of mass market paperbacks*. The predictions looked to be on track when...
View ArticleSherlock Holmes in public domain - at last!
The Supreme Court have declined to hear an appeal by the Doyle estate hoping to overturn a U.S. district court decision that ruled that copyrights had expired on all Sherlock novels and stories...
View ArticleAmazon buys .book and .buy
Amazon has won the right to sell domain names ending in .book after beating off competition from eight other companies including Google. It is understood to have paid up to $10m (£6.3m) at a private...
View Article1st National Readathon Day coming Jan 24 2015 - read for 4 hours, raise money...
The National Book Foundation, GoodReads, Mashable and Penguin Random House are creating National Readathon Day, Participating readers are asked to read a book for four straight hours between 12-4 p.m....
View ArticleAmazon and Hachette Book Group reach agreement after 8 month impasse....
Hachette Book Group and Amazon jointly announced today that "the companies have reached a new, multi-year agreement for ebook and print sales in the US." Hachette CEO Michael Pietsch said, "This is...
View ArticleDiary of a Wimpy Kid book 9 tops bestseller list in U.S., Canada, U.K....
We don't normally report on the bestseller lists but this story seemed a reason to make an exception.... Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul, the ninth book in Jeff Kinney's series, is the top selling...
View ArticleSpeaker of the House refuses to pass e-fairness legislation in lame-duck...
After Speaker of the House John Boehner said Monday he would block any attempt to pass e-fairness legislation in the lame-duck session of Congress, the Marketplace Fairness Coalition sent a letter...
View ArticleAlice Lee, trail blazing female lawyer and sister of Harper Lee dies aged 103
Alice Lee, sister of, and gatekeeper for her sister Harper Lee (aged 88), died Monday. She was 103. According to AL.com Lee "was also celebrated as a trailblazer, one of the few women who practiced law...
View Article2014 National Book Awards Presented
The National Book Foundation has announced the 2014 winners of the National Book Awards: Fiction: Phil Klay, Redeployment (The Penguin Press/ Penguin Group (USA)) Non-Fiction: Evan Osnos, Age of...
View ArticleS&S Expands e-book Availability to Libraries
Effective immediately, Simon & Schuster is making its e-books available to libraries across the country and no longer requiring libraries to participate in the "Buy It Now" program, under which...
View ArticlePD James dies aged 94
Crime novelist PD James has died aged 94. Her agent said she died "peacefully at her home in Oxford" on Thursday morning. James penned more than 20 books, The author's books, many featuring sleuth Adam...
View ArticleKent Haruf dies aged 71
Novelist Kent Haruf has died aged 71. The new issue of Granta has an autobiographical essay by Haruf, and his last novel Our Souls at Night is due to be published next year. His 1999 novel, Plainsong,...
View ArticleBookBrowse's 2014 Award Winners
The winners of the 2014 BookBrowse Awards are: Best Fiction: All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Best Debut: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman Best Nonfiction: In The Kingdom of Ice by...
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