New York's Strand Bookstore asked for help and received 25,000 online orders
One of New York's oldest bookstores pleaded for help from customers — and help poured in. Nancy Bass Wyden, owner of the Strand Bookstores, took to Facebook and Twitter on Friday to say the business...
View ArticleLittle Free Library launches Read in Color diversity initiative
Little Free Library, the nonprofit organization that promotes literacy through unconventional projects, has launched its newest initiative. Working with Colle McVoy, a Minneapolis creative agency,...
View ArticleWriters Against Trump organizing November 5 bookstore events
Writers Against Trump, an association of American authors and writers working together to oppose Donald Trump and to encourage voter turnout, is planning a series of post-election events on November...
View ArticleWith virus resurgent, PRH extends Open License for online readings through...
With the Covid-19 pandemic resurgent around the globe, Penguin Random House this week announced that it is extending its Open License for online story time and read-aloud videos through March 31,...
View ArticleMary Wollstonecraft finally honored with statue after 200 years
A Sculpture of Mary Wollstonecraft has been made by one of Britain's most important and sometimes controversial artists, Maggi Hambling. The unveiling on Tuesday follows 10 years of trying to raise...
View ArticleLockdown named word of the year by Collins Dictionary
Lockdown, the noun that has come to define so many lives across the world in 2020, has been named word of the year by Collins Dictionary with a 6000% increase in usage compared to 2019. Other...
View ArticleNews Corp., and Penguin Random House leading bidders for Simon & Schuster
News Corp. (which owns HarperCollins) and Penguin Random House are the leading bidders for Simon & Schuster, according to the New York Times, which cited "three people familiar with the process."...
View ArticleBarack Obama's 'Promised Land' playlist
To celebrate today's release of his new book, Barack Obama shared his A Promised Land playlist, saying: "Music has always played an important role throughout my life--and that was especially true...
View ArticleBookstore sales dropped 28% in September
Bookstore sales fell 27.7% in September, dropping to $609 million from $842 million a year ago. For the first nine months of 2020, sales were down 31% compared to 2019.
View ArticleNational Book Awards announced
The National Book Awards have been announced. See them all at BookBrowse.
View ArticleFirst-day sales of A Promised Land Set Penguin Random House record
Sales of A Promised Land (Crown), the first volume of Barack Obama's presidential memoirs, totaled more than 887,000 in the U.S. and Canada in all formats on Tuesday, November 17, the book's pub date....
View ArticleDan Rather is this year's Indies First spokesperson
Author, journalist and former national evening news anchor Dan Rather is this year's official Indies First spokesperson, the American Booksellers Association announced, noting: "In recent weeks,...
View ArticleDouglas Stuart's debut novel Shuggie Bain wins Booker Prize
Scottish-American author Douglas Stuart has won the Booker prize for his first novel, Shuggie Bain, a story based on his own life that follows a boy growing up in poverty in 1980s Glasgow with a...
View ArticleJan Morris, historian, travel writer and trans pioneer, dies aged 94
Jan Morris, the historian and travel writer who evoked time and place with the flair of a novelist, has died aged 94. As a journalist Morris broke monumental news, including Edmund Hillary and Tenzing...
View ArticleBeatles biography 'One Two Three Four' wins Baillie Gifford prize
Craig Brown has won the Baillie Gifford prize, the UK's top award for nonfiction, for One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time, a take on the band that judges said had "reinvented the art of...
View ArticleCosta Awards short list announced.
Shortlists in five categories have been announced for the 2020 Costa Book Awards, recognizing some of the most enjoyable books published in the last year by authors living in the U.K. and Ireland....
View ArticlePenguin Random House to Buy Simon & Schuster
Bertelsmann, owner of Penguin Random House, is buying Simon & Schuster from ViacomCBS and will make it part of PRH, the company announced. The deal should close in the second half of next year,...
View ArticleA Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path wins 42nd Diagram Prize
In a history-making triumph for its Canadian author and publisher, A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in Eastern Indonesian Society has won the 42nd annual The Bookseller/Diagram...
View ArticlePenguin Random House is buying Simon & Schuster. That's bad for readers
It's a small world after all. And if we don't speak up, it will become smaller. Penguin Random House, already the largest trade publisher in the country, has announced plans to buy Simon &...
View ArticlePG Wodehouse: Why India still holds a flame for the English author
PG Wodehouse, creator of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, was the most English novelist imaginable. His comic world was old-fashioned well before he died 45 years ago - crammed with disapproving aunts in...
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