Penguin Random House releases free The Whistle-Blower Complaint audiobook
Penguin Random House Audio has released a free, 30-minute audio reading of The Whistle-Blower Complaint. It was recorded by Saskia Maarleveld, a professional audiobook narrator.
View ArticleThe global war on books, redux
The New York Times has just published a powerful article on how governments across the globe are spending a remarkable amount of resources attacking books. Because this is an important article and...
View ArticleUS to impose tariffs on $7.5bn of EU exports including books
The United States is set to impose tariffs on $7.5bn (£6.1bn) of goods it imports from the European Union, in a move branded "completely unacceptable" by the Publishers Association. The tariffs are...
View Article2019 National Book Award finalists announced
The twenty-five Finalists for the 2019 National Book Awards for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People's Literature (YPL) were announced today with VanityFair.com. The...
View ArticlePeter Handke and Olga Tokarczuk win 2018 and 2019 Nobel Literature Prize
The Swedish Academy announced this morning two winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Peter Handke, the Austrian author, playwright and translator, wins the 2019 prize, and Olga Tokarczuk, the...
View ArticleThe Swedish Academy took a year off to fix the Nobel Prize in literature....
Yesterday, The Nobel committee announced the winners of both the 2018 and 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature. The 2018 prize having been canceled last year due to controversy. Over to Ron Charles at The...
View ArticleA Latina novelist spoke about white privilege. Students burned her book in...
In response to Jennine Capó Crucet's talk on the Statesboro, Ga., campus Wednesday, where she focused her discussion on white privilege, students gathered at a grill and torched her novel "Make Your...
View ArticleHarold Bloom, author and literary critic, dies at age 89
Harold Bloom, the eminent critic and Yale professor whose seminal The Anxiety of Influence and melancholy regard for literature's old masters made him a popular author and standard-bearer of Western...
View ArticleMargaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo share Booker prize 2019
The judges of this year's Booker prize have "explicitly flouted" the rules of the august literary award to choose the first joint winners in almost 30 years: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo....
View ArticleDav Pilkey credits his ADHD for his massive success. Now he wants kids to...
By any measure in publishing, cartoonist Dav Pilkey is a rock star. The children's author created his characters Captain Underpants (a superhero for grade-schoolers) and Dog Man (a hound-supercop)...
View ArticleMajor public library system will boycott Macmillan e-books
King County (WA) Library System, the nation's top digital-circulating library has said it will stop buying new release Macmillan e-books once the publishers' two-month embargo begins next month. In...
View ArticleCongress looking into anti-competitive behavior in the digital library market
The American Library Association (ALA) has delivered a written report to the House Judiciary Committee telling lawmakers that "unfair behavior by digital market actors," including Amazon and some...
View ArticleLittle Free Library founder's family clash with organization
A year after the death of its founder, Todd Bol, the Little Free Library nonprofit literacy organization and Bol's family are at odds. The dispute appears to hinge on the matter of trademarks. Bol,...
View ArticleElena Ferrante's first novel for five years coming from Europa in June 2020
Europa Editions has revealed it will publish Elena Ferrante's first novel for five years, The Lying Life of Adults, in June 2020. The book will be published in Italy on 7th November 2019 by Edizioni...
View ArticleCalifornia booksellers contend with fires, power outages
Indie booksellers throughout California are contending with mandatory evacuations, power outages, road closures, and air quality issues as fires continue to rage in the state. The situation in...
View ArticleMacmillan CEO John Sargent: 'We're not trying to hurt libraries'
Days before Macmillan's controversial embargo on new release e-books in public libraries is set to go into effect, Macmillan CEO John Sargent is speaking out to librarians. In an open letter to...
View ArticleIs publishing too top-Hheavy?
Book publishing has long been a hits-driven business. The bestsellers, the logic went, paid for the flops. And it was the authors of those in the middle—the so-called midlist—that publishers hoped to...
View ArticleIs publishing too top-Hheavy?
Book publishing has long been a hits-driven business. The bestsellers, the logic went, paid for the flops. And it was the authors of those in the middle—the so-called midlist—that publishers hoped to...
View ArticleFlorida county refuses to pay for New York Times in libraries: 'It's fake news'
A local government in Florida has blocked its library system from getting a digital subscription to the New York Times, dismissing the newspaper as "fake news" and as a challenge to US president...
View ArticleExplore the list of 100 novels that shaped our world
A list of the most inspiring novels chosen by a panel of experts has been revealed by BBC Arts. Modern works such as Bridget Jones's Diary and His Dark Materials made the cut along with classics like...
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