Anger as a private company takes over libraries
A private company in Maryland has taken over public libraries in ailing cities in California, Oregon, Tennessee and Texas, growing into the country's fifth-largest library system. Now the company,...
View ArticleAmazon.com's bookstore of the future: pay to preview content?
What will Amazon's bookstore of the future look like? A newly granted Amazon patent hints that people may have to pay if they want to preview excerpts of a book before deciding whether to buy it. The...
View ArticleWill Leonard Riggio, B&N's founder and chairman be ousted?
Billionaire Ron Burkle has a fighting chance of ousting Barnes & Noble Inc's founder and Chairman Leonard Riggio from the top U.S. bookseller's board and taking a director's seat. If Burkle doesn't...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble founder maintains control of board
Barnes & Noble founder Leonard Riggio and supporters have defeated investor Ronald W. Burkle's attempt to secure more spots on the company board. After a shareholder vote, Riggio and his two...
View ArticleJonathan Franzen's glasses held to ransom
Jonathan Franzen, in the UK to promote his new book Freedom, is having an interesting time. Last week, thousands of copies of Freedom were recalled because the UK publishers had gone to press with a...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble officially launches self publishing arm - PubIt
Barnes & Noble has officially launched PubIt, it's first foray into self-publishing, which will allow publishers and authors to distribute e-titles through BN.com. B&N says that "tens of...
View ArticleGiller Prize Shortlist Announced
The Scotiabank Giller Prize, CanadaÂ’s richest literary award, announced the finalists for their 2010 prize this morning.
View ArticleC by Tom McCarthy favorite to win Booker Prize
UK bookmaker Ladbrokes has halted betting on this year's Booker after C by Tom McCarthy received a flurry of bets setting "alarm bells ringing". At William Hill, bets are still open, but Tom McCarthy's...
View ArticleMario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel
Mario Vargas Llosa's publisher at Faber (UK) has hailed the 2010 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature as "a writer of enormous range, passion and insight". Lee Brackstone spoke to The Bookseller...
View ArticleExcitement returns to Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association trade show
An atmosphere of excitement and optimism missing in recent years permeated the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association fall trade show held in Portland, Oreg. on October 7-9
View ArticleOrange Award for New Writers now a year long promotion
The UK's Orange Prize is dropping their award for new writers, in favor of digital promotions and an online book club that they say will "be able to support a greater number of first time writers in a...
View ArticleFifth novel in Stieg Larsson's "trilogy" confirmed
Rumors of a completed novel to follow Steig Larsson's first three Millennium series novels (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo etc), has been confirmed, but it doesn't look like it will be publishing...
View Article"The Finkler Question" wins Booker Prize
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson has won this year's Man Booker Prize. More about the book at BookBrowse (link below):
View ArticleNational Book Award finalists announced
The finalists for this year's National Book Awards have been announced. Titles in the running for the Fiction award include Peter Carey's Parrot and Olivier in America, Nicole Krauss's Great House and...
View ArticleBelva Plain dies at 95
Belva Plain died last week at the age of 95. The author of more than 20 bestselling books and known for epic novels of family and forgiveness, she never owned a computer and wrote in longhand on a...
View Article"Waiting for Superman" soars in screen and print
Waiting for 'Superman', the documentary directed by Davis Guggenheim about problems in the public school system and how to fix them, had a limited release October 8 and is now rolling out nationally....
View ArticleEva Ibbotson dies at 85
Eva Ibbotson, much-loved children's book author, whose titles include Which Witch? and The Secret of Platform 13, died this week aged 85.
View ArticleThomas Steinbeck loses latest round to control Steinbeck literary estate
In the latest--and perhaps fina--round of a bitter battle for a control of the John Steinbeck literary estate, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals this week affirmed an...
View ArticleTexas Says Amazon Owes $269 Million in Taxes
Amazon has fought long and hard to avoid collecting sales tax in states where it believes it does not have nexus, and for the most part has been successful. But in its quarterly filing with the...
View ArticleGulag Archipelago re-issued for Russian students
With the blessing of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the widow of Alexander Solzhenitsyn is unveiling an abridged version of his celebrated and once-banned "The Gulag Archipelago" as required reading...
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