Ta-Nehisi Coates among 2015 MacArthur Geniuses
Authors Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ben Lerner and poet Ellen Bryant Voigt are among the twenty-four 2015 MacArthur fellows. Each receives a no-strings attached stipend of $625,000 over five years."These 24...
View Article5 Under 35 Honorees announced
The National Book Foundation announced the 5 Under 35 honorees today: Angela Flournoy, The Turner House (HMH) Colin Barrett, Young Skins (Black Cat) Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Fra Keeler (Dorothy...
View ArticleHenning Mankell dies aged 67
Henning Mankell, the Swedish crime writer best known for his Kurt Wallander books has died aged 67 after being diagnosed with cancer last year. Credited with almost single-handedly establishing Sweden...
View ArticleNominate your favorite bookstore employee by Nov 1 for a holiday bonus from...
Author James Patterson has already donated millions of dollars to bookstores, libraries and other literary organizations in the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand. Now he has set up a fund in...
View ArticleBelarusian writer and journalist Svetlana Alexievich has won the 2015 Nobel...
Belarusian writer and journalist Svetlana Alexievich has won the 2015 Nobel Prize for literature. Announcing the prize in Stockholm, the chair of the Swedish Academy, Sara Danius, called her writing "a...
View ArticleMarlon James wins Man Booker for A Brief History of Seven Killings
Jamaican author Marlon James has won the Man Booker Prize for his novel inspired by the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the 1970s. Michael Wood, chair of the judges, described A Brief History...
View Article2015 National Book Awards Finalists Announced
The finalists for the 2015 National Book Award have been announced. The list for fiction includes: Karen E. Bender, Refund: Stories (Soft Skull/Counterpoint Press) Angela Flournoy, The Turner House...
View ArticleAmazon sues writers of fake reviews
Amazon is suing more than 1,000 people suspected of providing fake 5-star reviews on its website having advertised their willingness to write glowing reviews on fiverr.com for as little as $5. This...
View ArticleNew J.K. Rowling story, Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, to be the first to...
The Pottermore website announced Friday that there is to be an eighth story in the Harry Potter series - presented not as a book but as a play. The story will pick up after Harry says goodbye to his...
View ArticleApple Petitions Supreme Court to Overturn E-books Decision
As expected, Apple on Wednesday officially asked the Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court decision affirming Judge Denise Cote's 2013 verdict finding the company liable for its role in a...
View ArticleAmazon reviews hijacked by conspiracy theorists and causes
The Seattle Times reports that organized groups are using the Amazon review system to push political and social agendas often only tangentially related to the products being sold. But Amazon appears to...
View ArticleTake Your Child to a Bookstore Day - Saturday Dec 5
Saturday, December 5 is the sixth annual Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day. This year 700 bookstores will participate across all 50 US, plus a handful elsewhere. Novelist Jenny Milchman was inspired...
View ArticleMark your calendar for Indies First Day on Sat Nov 28
Mark your calendar for Indies First Day - a national campaign of activities and events in support of independent bookstores, first envisioned by author Sherman Alexie in 2013. It kicks off each...
View ArticleCosta Book Awards nominees announced
The nominees for the Costa Book Awards have been announced. The Costa Awards (known as the Whitbread Awards until 2006) are one of the UK's most prestigious and literary prizes recognizing some of the...
View ArticleShareholders encouraged to vote in favor of plan to privatize Books-A-Million.
Institutional Shareholder Services, the independent proxy advisory firm, has recommended that stockholders of Books-A-Million vote in favor of the plan for the Anderson family to buy BAM and take it...
View Article2015 National Book Awards Announced
The National Book Foundation has announced the 2015 winners of the National Book Awards: Fiction: Adam Johnson, Fortune Smiles: Stories (Random House (USA)) Non-Fiction: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the...
View ArticleAmerican Booksellers Association and others support Apple at Supreme Court
Shelf Awareness reports that The American Booksellers Association, Barnes & Noble, Authors United and the Authors Guild have filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the Supreme Court asking it to...
View ArticleSales of print books grow for second year in a row
The book business looks ready to mark a second consecutive year of unit growth in print books. Unit sales of print books were up 2.8% through the week ended December 20, 2015 compared to the same...
View ArticleSales of print books up for second year in a row
Unit sales of print books from outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan increased 2.8% in 2015 over 2014, marking the second consecutive year that print units posted annual gains. The retail and club...
View ArticleHarper Lee, E.L. James, Paula Hawkins and Anthony Doerr top 2015 print...
Harper Lee (Go Set a Watchman), E.L James (Grey), Paula Hawkins (The Girl on the Train) and Anthony Doerr (All The Light We Cannot See) topped the print adult fiction bestseller list in 2015 with sales...
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