A new study by the Book Industry Study Group says readers are choosing both print and ebooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
J K Rowling's agent Neil Blair has played down reported concerns over the decision to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
E L James Fifty Shades trilogy has out-sold J K Rowling’s seven-book Harry Potter series on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Campaigners in Doncaster have lost their fight to re-open two libraries after a judge's... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
To him, the world was both subject and spectacle. Yet he remained, always, an author difficult to categorize.Gore Vidal, who died Tuesday night at age 86, was a fixture on the American cultural landscape for so long that it seems hard to imagine our literature without him. From 1946, when his... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
News Corp's digital tablet magazine The Daily is letting go of 50 employees, around 29 per cent of its total, as it streamlines production to focus on its most popular features. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Head of Zeus has acquired a debut fantasy novel by British author, A J Smith. Commissioning... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones has issued new advice to its bookstores on running author events, after concern that... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sainsbury’s has priced pre-orders for the much-anticipated JK Rowling and Jamie Oliver... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
J K Rowling will be appearing at two public events this autumn to discuss her first novel for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hamish Hamilton has signed up a novel from South American writer Daniel Galera, a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House India has appointed Caroline Newbury, formerly deputy publicity director at Ebury,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The campaign group Friends of Gloucestershire Libraries has decided to step back from further... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Century and Arrow has acquired two novels by Andrew Clover, the former Sunday Times columnist.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jonah Lehrer resigned from The New Yorker after Tablet Magazine discovered Lehrer had fabricated quotes by Bob Dylan in Lehrer's latest book "Imagine: How Creativity Works." Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
The trade has paid tribute to multi-award-winning Irish author Maeve Binchy after her death at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Borders name will soon be retired as the Pearson Group looks to rebrand the remaining online... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Shadow culture minister Dan Jarvis has accused his government opposite Ed Vaizey of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
A government-commissioned report into the feasibility of developing a Digital Copyright Exchange... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Canongate has stopped the distribution and sale of Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]