Can fraudulent writers, aka Johah Lehrer, ever be forgiven? Or should they simply be cast into permanent exile from the literary world? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Reports say the pop superstar is close to signing a book deal with an imprint of HarperCollins. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
A group of writers are quids in following an experiment to sell a bundle of DRM-free ebooks. Sales of The Humble Bundle, which included works from authors Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman and the much-loved xkcd comic strip, have been anything but humble, with over 84,000 bundles sold, earning the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2012-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
One of the writers behind disaster-prone Spider-Man Broadway musical, Glen Berger, will reveal all in a "fly-on-the-wall" book. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple CEO Tim Cook took to a San Jose theater stage today to unveil a new version of the company's literature-based digital storefront, iBooks. Cook says it integrates better with iCloud, allows for quote sharing on Facebook and Twitter, and has support for "over 40 languages." Beyond the app... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers are still prepared to pay good money up front for the right books, agents have told... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Samar Yazbek, whose latest book is an account of the Assad regime written inside Syria, will share the Pen Pinter prize with poet Carol Anne Duffy. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Syrian writer Samar Yazbek, author of A Woman in the Crossfire (Haus Publishing), has been chosen... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writers Aminatta Forna, Kamila Shamsie, Paul Theroux and Henning Mankell have given support to a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bulgarian author Miroslav Penkov has won the £15,000 BBC International Short Story Award,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Diaz, reporter David Finkel, and writer Dinaw Mengestu were honored by the MacArthur Foundation, each receiving a $500,000 grant. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Children's has snapped up rights to The Breathing series by self-published author... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Booksellers have become book writers for a popular science project from Icon Books. Icon’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The government is also pressuring Chinese publishers to stop translating and publishing Japanese content as tension increases between the two countries. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
When a man routinely hailed as one of America’s “greatest living writers” publishes a new novel, one hardly expects it to draw reviews posing questions along the lines of “Can he do it? Can he actually pull it off?” Because when you’re Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize winner, the act of writing a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2012-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The teenage author of a vampire fantasy novel who is a vegetarian with a morbid fear of blood has become the latest internet sensation to land a global publishing deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2012-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Joining a growing list of services that offer real-time video chat capabilities, Shindig is a recently launched platform that authors and publishers can use to replicate the book tour experience online. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orion imprint Indigo has acquired two YA books by American debut author, Tess Sharpe. Editorial... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bestselling author James Herbert is the latest to have an ebook offered for 20p on Amazon and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
American science fiction writer Harry Harrison, best known for The Stainless Steel Rat and the book that inspired Charlton Heston's classic film Soylent Green, has died aged 87. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]