Penguin Random House sells Author Solutions
Penguin Random House has sold its self-publishing division Author Solutions to an affiliate of Najafi Companies, an international private investment firm that in 2011 had emerged as a potential buyer...
View ArticleHong Kong publishing house cancels book criticizing govt. after disappearance...
A Hong Kong publishing house has allegedly suspended its plans to print a book critical of Chinese president Xi Jinping, fearing retribution from mainland authorities after 5 employees of a different...
View Article2015 Costa Awards announced
The 2015 Costa award winners were announced today. The winners are: Costa Book of The Year: The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge Costa First Novel Award: The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley Costa Novel...
View ArticleReport shows impact of Amazon on local USA communities - $1b in lost revenue,...
One of the most well-attended and discussed sessions at yesterday's publishing industry Winter Institute featured the release of a new Civic Economics-ABA study called The Fiscal and Land Use Impacts...
View ArticleNew Beatrix Potter book discovered
A new story written by Beatrix Potter more than 100 years ago, is to be published for the first time. The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots was rediscovered by publisher Jo Hanks after she found a reference to it...
View ArticleAmazon may open about a dozen new stores
An offhand comment yesterday by the CEO of a real estate investment trust that owns and manages 120 shopping malls around the country, threw the book business into a frenzy and caused B&N's share...
View ArticleFive missing Hong Kong booksellers confirmed as being detained by Chinese...
The five employees of a Hong Kong publishing company who have disappeared over the last few months have been confirmed as being detained by the Chinese government in mainland China. Their abductions...
View Article'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' play will be published as "special...
The play, written by Jack Thorne, is based on an original story by Rowling, Thorne, and John Tiffany, which catches up with Harry Potter 19 years after the Harry Potter series. Potter is now a husband,...
View ArticleHarper Lee Dies at 89
Harper Lee, whose first novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird," about racial injustice in a small Alabama town, sold more than 10 million copies and became one of the most beloved and most taught works of...
View ArticleEmberto Eco dies at 84
The Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose, has died aged 84.
View ArticleCarla D. Hayden nominated as Librarian of Congress. If confirmed she will be...
President Obama has nominated as the next Librarian of Congress Carla D. Hayden, who has been CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Md., since 1993. Before that, Dr. Hayden was deputy...
View ArticleSIBA Book Awards now the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize
The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) is paying tribute to one of the South's most beloved writers by renaming the SIBA Book Awards. This has been in the works since the news of Conroy's...
View ArticleDetained Hong Kong booksellers charged with "illegal book trading"
Four Hong Kong booksellers who went missing last year appeared on Chinese television and confessed to illegally selling banned books in mainland China, Reuters reports. The Financial Times notes that...
View ArticleLouise Rennison dies aged 63
Louise Rennison has died aged 63. She was the author of 10 young adult novels featuring Georgia Nicholson and a series of books about Georgia's younger cousin: The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey. In a...
View ArticleHachette signs binding agreement to buy Perseus Book Group
Having failed in its bid to buy the Perseus Book Group in 2014, Hachette Book Group announced Tuesday afternoon that it has entered into a binding agreement to acquire the company's publishing...
View ArticleIngram to buy Perseus's distribution business
A few days ago Perseus Book Group announced that Hachette would be buying their publishing arm, but it was unclear what would happen to their large distribution operation until yesterday when it was...
View ArticlePat Conroy dies aged 70
Pat Conroy died yesterday aged 70 after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. His tortured family life and the scenic marshlands of coastal South Carolina served as unending sources of inspiration for...
View ArticleBookstores sales up for the fifth month in a row
January bookstore sales in the USA rose 3.8%, to $1.48 billion, compared to January 2015, according to preliminary estimates from the Census Bureau. This marked the fifth month in a row that bookstore...
View ArticleAdult coloring book sales increase from 1 million books in 2014 to 12 million...
Sales in the adult coloring book category continue to rise. According to Nielsen Bookscan, about 12 million books were sold in 2015 compared with 1 million in 2014, with over 2000 individual titles...
View ArticleJames Patterson to donate a further $1.75m to school libraries in 2016
James Patterson will donate another $1.75 million to school libraries in 2016. The program was launched in 2015 in partnership with Scholastic Reading Club, which administers the program. Of the nearly...
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