Penguin Random House's #GiveaBook program exceeds target of 25,000 books. Now...
Penguin Random House has expanded its GiveaBook program after exceeding its original goal of donating 25,000 to Save the Children in just three weeks. The publisher has now pledged to donate another...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble buys back stake in Nook from Pearson
Barnes & Noble has agreed to buy back Pearson's stake in the booksellers's struggling e-book business, Nook Media, for nearly $28 million. The company said that it would pay $13.75 million in cash...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg, Facebook Founder, Launches Book Club
Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire social network founder has set up the Facebook group "A Year of Book", inviting others to join him in reading a new book every other week. Mr Zuckerberg said the books...
View Article2014 Costa Award Winners Announced
The category winners in the 2014 Costa Book Award have been announced, with Ali Smith winning in the Novel category with How to be Both, a Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel about grief and the...
View ArticleRobert Stone, author of Dog Soldiers, dies aged 77
National Book Award winner for Dog Soldiers Robert Stone, 77, died at home in Key West, FL of COPD on Saturday.
View ArticleIndie Bookstores Alive & Well! Average indie saw 9% increase in sales in...
With just about all reports in, it's clear that 2014 ended strongly for bricks-and-mortar bookstores. For the first time in several years, book sales at Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million during...
View Article6 of the 8 Oscar best picture nominations are based on books including...
Six of the eight best picture nominations for this year's Academy Awards, which will be presented February 22, are based on books or are book-related; and there are number of other nominations for...
View ArticleFirst National Readathon Day this Saturday - like a walk-a-thon except you read!
Saturday, 24th Jan is the first National Readathon Day. NRD is a nation-wide marathon reading session from Noon – 4pm (in respective time zones). You can share your love of books and support programs...
View ArticleKate DiCamillo to be the first National Summer Reading Champion
Kate DiCamillo, the Library of Congress Ambassador for Young People's Literature, and author of more than a dozen books, is to be the first National Summer Reading Champion, working with the nonprofit...
View ArticleFirst National Readathon Day raises $50,000 from nearly 200 participating...
The first National Readathon Day, held in the USA on Saturday, drew crowds to stores that had events highlighting the occasion. Book lovers were asked to pledge to read for four hours starting at noon...
View Article2014 Costa Book of the Year Announced
Helen Macdonald's memoir H Is For Hawk has been named Costa Book of the Year. The book is the author's personal account of training a goshawk as a way of dealing with grief following her father's death.
View ArticleThorn Birds author, Colleen McCullough, dies aged 77
Colleen McCullough, author of twenty-five books including The Thorn Birds has died in a hospital on Norfolk Island aged 77. Norfolk Island, population ~2000, is a self-governing territory of Australia...
View ArticleBooks-A-Million Majority Owners Offer to Buy Whole Company
Books-A-Million executive chairman Clyde B. Anderson and his family, who directly and in trusts own 58.2% of the company's outstanding common stock, have made an offer to buy the rest of the company...
View ArticleNewbery & Caldecott Awards announced
The American Library Association announced their Youth Media Awards today. The Newbery medal went to The Crossover, a novel in verse by Kwame Alexander (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and the Caldecott...
View ArticleFire destroys millions of books at major Russian state library
A major fire that threatened to consume one of Russia's most important libraries was finally put out late Saturday, but scholars are only beginning to assess the damage from the flames, smoke and...
View ArticleAmazon maybe buying some RadioShack stores in order to showcase products...
Sources say that Amazon is in discussion with bankrupt RadioShack about buying some of its stores in the USA with the intent that these would serve as showcases for Amazon's products, as well as...
View ArticleHarper Lee to publish sequel to TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
An unpublished novel by Harper Lee is to finally see the light of day, 60 years after the US author put it aside to write To Kill a Mockingbird. Go Set a Watchman, which features the character of Scout...
View ArticleNovelist Jackie Collins dies aged 77
Novelist Jackie Collins has died of breast cancer at the age of 77, her family said in a statement. The British-born writer, sister of actress Joan Collins, died in Los Angeles, her spokeswoman said....
View ArticleBook subscription service Oyster to close
After two years of operation, Oyster, which offered unlimited access to a million titles for US$9.95 a month Oyster, is shutting down, and it would seem that most of the staff will be employed by...
View ArticleWhat happened to the e-book apocalypse?
The New York Times reports on the "digital apocalypse that never arrived or at least not on schedule." Between 2008 and 2010 e-book sales soared by 1,260 percent. Print sales fell and bookstores...
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