Amazon withdraws ebook explaining how to manipulate its sales rankings
The author of an ebook that gives details on how easily Amazon's bestseller rankings can be manipulated has accused the online retail giant of "hypocrisy" after the title was temporarily removed from...
View ArticleChildren's book author, Dick King-Smith, dies
Dick King-Smith, creator of more than 100 wonderful books for children, including The Sheep Pig, has died aged 88.
View ArticleNewbery Medal won by first novelist Clare Vanderpool for Moon over Manifest
Clare Vanderpool has won the John Newbery Medal, awarded for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature for her first novel, Moon over Manifest. Click the link below for more about this...
View ArticleJ.D. Salinger Estate, Swedish Author Settle Copyright Suit
The estate of J.D. Salinger and Swedish author and publisher Fredrik Colting have entered into a consent agreement to end the copyright battle over Colting's book 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye...
View ArticleThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks wins BookBrowse Best Book Award
4045 votes were cast by BookBrowse subscribers to decide the 2010 BookBrowse Award winners ... and the winners are: Best Book of 2010:The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Best Debut...
View ArticleCalifornia Govenor proposes eliminating state funding for libraries
California Governor Jerry Brown's proposed budget for fiscal year 2011-2012 eliminates state funding for public libraries. This represents a loss of $30.4 million, which currently funds three programs:...
View ArticlePublishers consider Border's future
Following yesterday's meeting between publishers and Borders, publishers are considering the numbers presented to them in order to decide whether it is best to accept Borders' offer of a three year...
View ArticleMystery writer Joe Gores dies at 79
Joe Gores, a former San Francisco private investigator who became a prize-winning author of hardboiled mysteries such as "Hammett," "Come Morning" and "Spade & Archer," (the first authorized spin...
View ArticleAmazon set to have sold almost 20 million Kindles by end of 2011
Amazon sold about 7.1 million Kindle e-readers last year, Barclays analyst Doug Anmuth estimates today in a note, and will sell 12.3 million this year. ("Though our numbers may still be conservative.")
View ArticleIan McEwan wins Israel's highest literary honor
Ian McEwan has been awarded the $10,000 Jerusalem Prize. Israel's highest literary honor for foreign writers is given biennially to an author whose work best expresses and promotes the idea of "freedom...
View ArticleReynolds Price, a literary voice of the South, dies at 77
Reynolds Price, whose novels and stories about ordinary people in rural North Carolina struggling to find their place in the world established him as one of the most important voices in modern Southern...
View ArticleBookSwim plans e-book lending site
With major publishers so far reticent to sanction a rental market for e-books, BookSwim.com, the New Jersey-based print-book rental company billed as "the Netflix of books," told PW it plans to launch...
View ArticleTED, Amazon to Launch TEDBooks
TED, the renowned nonprofit conference and foundation that provides a platform to important writers, thinkers, and artists to offer ideas worth spreading, is launching TEDBooks, a line of short...
View ArticlePublishers remain cool to Borders deal
Unless publishers undergo a change of heart, it appears likely that many will reject Borders' proposal to exchange missed payments for notes...It is unclear what Borders' next step will be if...
View ArticleBorders Delays January Payments
Borders announced Sunday evening that it was delaying January payments to vendors and landlords in a move to conserve cash. The action will almost certainly end any hope Borders has of winning approval...
View ArticleBorders filing for bankruptcy?
Late yesterday Bloomberg reported that Borders Group plans to file for bankruptcy protection as soon as next week and will likely close at least 150 stores...
View ArticleNews Corp debut a daily newspaper for the iPad
Murdoch's News Corporation today announced a new newspaper exclusively for the iPad. "The Daily" is available as a downloadable app, available exclusively through the iTunes store, for a weekly...
View ArticleGrizzly Adams creator Charles Sellier dies at 67
Charles Sellier - creator of the book, film and TV series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams - has died aged 67.
View ArticleCanada's largest book distributor files for bankruptcy
H.B. Fenn, Canada's largest book distributor and owner since 2004 of Key Porter Books, has filed for bankruptcy.
View ArticleKindle upgrade coming soon
Owners of latest generation Kindle and Kindle 3G will be getting new features soon including the ability to share notes about their books publicly, real page numbers that correspond to the print copy,...
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