PRH purchase of S&S draws objections
Following the announcement that Penguin Random House parent company Bertelsmann won the bidding war for Simon & Schuster with a $2.2 billion offer, members of the book business and related...
View ArticleCanadian-owned publishers oppose PRH buying S&S
In Canada, the Association of Canadian Publishers is opposing the Penguin Random House's acquisition of Simon & Schuster. The ACP, which represents approximately 115 small to medium-sized...
View ArticlePrison book club raises $30,000 for high school student in need
It's hard to imagine two more different places than an elite private school and California's Soledad State Prison, which houses the state's largest concentration of men sentenced to life behind bars....
View ArticleMajor publishing industry events, BookExpo, BookCon and Unbound, permanently...
U.S. book publishing's biggest trade show is being "retired," show organizer ReedPop announced today. BookExpo, along with BookCon and Unbound, will not be held in 2021 after being canceled in 2020...
View ArticleLegendary sci-fi author Ben Bova dies aged 88
Scientist, Hugo Award winner, and prolific science fiction author and editor Ben Bova passed away on Sunday, November 29, 2020 at the age of 88. The author of more than one hundred books, Bova also...
View ArticleObituary Note: Alison Lurie
Alison Lurie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author "whose mordant novels punctured pretension, deflated dogma and illuminated the staggering talent of smart people for self-deception," died December 3...
View ArticleAmazon Publishing in talks to offer e-books to public libraries
In what came as a surprise to many librarians and industry observers, a report in The Hill this week revealed that the nonprofit Digital Public Library of America has been in discussions with Amazon...
View ArticleDenver's Tattered Cover sold to investor group
In a move that is being seen as positive, The Tattered Cover, Denver, Colo., one of the best known and most highly regarded independent bookstores in the country, has been sold by Len Vlahos and...
View ArticleThe story behind 'And the People Stayed Home,' the little poem that became...
When she sat down at her computer one morning this spring, Kitty O'Meara didn't intend to write an iconic poem, a children's book or an opera. But in roughly 20 minutes, she did all three. It all...
View ArticleJust how white Is the book industry?
In an extensive article, the New York Times asks "just how white is the book industry," and then sets out to quantify the answer through an extensive report that will serve as a baseline for future...
View ArticleJohn le Carré dies aged 89
John le Carré, who forged thrillers from equal parts of adventure, moral courage and literary flair, has died aged 89. On Sunday, his family confirmed he had died of pneumonia at the Royal Cornwall...
View ArticleCosta Book Category Winners
Winners have been named in the five Costa Book Awards categories, celebrating "the most enjoyable books of the year by writers resident in the U.K. and Ireland. Each author receives £5,000 (about...
View ArticlePublishers Weekly launches a new U.S. book trade fair for May
Publishers Weekly has announced it will launch a new American publishing trade fair. Named the U.S. Book Show, the debut event will run virtually May 26-28. The intended audience includes booksellers,...
View ArticleVed Mehta, writer who illuminated India, is dead at 86
Ved Mehta, a longtime writer for The New Yorker whose best-known work, spanning a dozen volumes, explored the vast, turbulent history of modern India through the intimate lens of his own...
View ArticleAmazon hit with ebook price fixing suit
The law firm that successfully sued Apple and five major publishers for colluding to fix e-book prices in 2011 has now filed a class action suit against Amazon, accusing the company of colluding with...
View ArticlePublishing industry unites to block Trump administration book deals
Author Barry Lyga has posted an open letter signed by more than 250 authors, agents, booksellers, and publishers supporting their opposition to any publisher signing up President Donald Trump or...
View ArticleAmanda Gorman to read one of her poems at the presidential inauguration
The incoming Biden administration has chosen Amanda Gorman to read one of her poems at the presidential inauguration. She's an inspired choice for a nation desperate for hope and new energy. In 2017,...
View ArticleSourcebooks donates $200,000 in honor of RBG
Sourcebooks has donated a total of $200,000 to six organizations supporting causes championed by the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The one-time donations came from profits on sales...
View ArticleNetflix developing projects for three Ibram X. Kendi books
Netflix is partnering with author and scholar Ibram X. Kendi to produce three new projects based on his books Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America; Stamped:...
View ArticleMeet the book club that's helping to quickly vaccinate its town
The 10 members of the Fabulous Ladies Book Club in Ruidoso, N.M. now meet online, but in recent weeks, they have found a new project that gives them good reason to see one another beyond their...
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