The rise of virtual foreign author tours
One of the unintended consequences of the pandemic and the shift to virtual author events is that booksellers and publishers have had the opportunity to put together events for overseas authors who...
View ArticleShuggie Bain bags Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2021
Douglas Stuart has won Book of the Year at the British Book Awards, triumphing with his "truly exceptional" début novel, Shuggie Bain. Other winners at the virtual ceremony (held on 13th May) were...
View ArticleThe Passenger: Lost German novel makes UK bestseller list 83 years on
A novel written about the persecution of Jews in Germany in 1938 but which was then forgotten about for 80 years has made it onto a UK bestsellers list. Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz's The Passenger is...
View ArticleDoubleday acquires two new Stacey Abrams thrillers
Doubleday and Anchor Books have acquired North American rights for two new political thrillers by Georgia politician Stacey Abrams. Both of the new novels will feature Avery Keene, the star of Abram's...
View ArticleBooksellers to CDC: In my store, you mask up
Many independent bookstore owners and managers across the country view the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's loosening of mask guidelines for vaccinated people as a failure of public...
View Article'Beloved' Gaza City bookshop destroyed
At 6 a.m. Tuesday, Samir Mansour answered the phone in his Gaza City home. It was the Israeli military asking if he was inside his bookstore and publishing house a little over a mile away. They said...
View ArticleRuth Freitag, librarian to the stars, dies at 96
An expert on astronomy, Ruth Frietag spent nearly a half-century at the Library of Congress and helped Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan with research. Isaac Asimov was enthralled with her and wrote her a...
View ArticleU.S. Book Show: Why America needs libraries now more than ever
In a May 25 keynote on the opening day of the U.S. Book Show, sociologist Eric Klinenberg, author of the bestselling book Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality,...
View ArticleEric Carle, Author of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar,' Dies at 91
Eric Carle, the artist and author of more than 70 books, died on Sunday at his summer studio in Northampton, Mass. He was 91. "The Very Hungry Caterpillar," Mr. Carle's best-known book, has sold more...
View ArticleSales of adult fiction books stay on fire
Unit sales of print books rose 11.6% last week over the week ended May 30, 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan; and through the first five months of 2021, sales were up 22% over the...
View ArticleSenator Klobuchar advocates against Amazon, other monopolies
Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar continued to make the case for stepping up antitrust actions yesterday, appearing in a webinar sponsored by the American Booksellers Association and Small Business...
View ArticlePulitzer Awards honor books highlighting the experience of people of color
This year's Pulitzer Prize Awards honor five books spotlighting the experiences of people of color in the United States. See them on BookBrowse
View ArticleBipartisan bills aim to rein in Amazon & other big tech companies
On Friday, a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House of Representatives introduced five bills that aim to rein in Big Tech companies--Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple. The moves parallel efforts...
View ArticleObituary Note: Patricia Reilly Giff
Patricia Reilly Giff, two-time Newbery Honor winner and the author more than 100 books for children, died on June 22 at age 86. Her work included the Kids of the Polk Street School books, the Friends...
View ArticleLess than 1% of UK high school students study a book by a writer of color,...
Research commissioned by Penguin Random House has revealed only 0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of color while only 7% study a book by a woman. English...
View ArticleBarack Obama tells librarians their work is "more important than ever"
In his closing talk at the 2021 American Library Association Annual conference on Tuesday, former president Barack Obama praised libraries as "citadels of knowledge and empathy" and said that...
View ArticleMichael Horovitz obituary
The poet and editor Michael Horovitz, who has died aged 86 after a fall, championed poetry as a vital and democratic force that needed liberating from the academic world and the printed page. His...
View ArticlePublishers could get tariff refund
Though America's trade relationship with China is still being reviewed by the Biden Administration, companies, including publishers, who have been paying higher tariffs on imports from that country...
View ArticleBernette Ford, who made children's books more diverse, dies at 70
Bernette G. Ford, who as an author and editor was a leading advocate of making children's books more diverse and making sure that people of color had opportunities to write and illustrate them, died...
View ArticleWilliam F. Nolan (1928-2021)
Author William F. Nolan, 93, died July 15, 2021 in the hospital of complications from an infection. Nolan was best known for the Logan's Run series of science fiction novels, the first of which was...
View Article