Thriller writer James Patterson has been crowed as the world’s top-earning author in 2011-... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-10 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 ]
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 ]
Best-selling Irish author Maeve Binchy, who sold more than 40 million books worldwide, has died after a short illness. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
A staff writer for The New Yorker has resigned and his latest book has been halted after he acknowledged inventing quotes by Bob Dylan. Jonah Lehrer released a statement Monday through his publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, saying that some Mr. Dylan quotes appearing in his book "Imagine: How... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Legend Press and Bloomsbury both have two books on the £30,000 University of Wales Dylan... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors and their representatives have warned that books are being devalued to the point of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The rise of ebooks will "fundamentally change" the types of stories that are written and who they are written by, award-winning author Denise Mina predicts. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pearson has acquired self-publishing company Author Solutions Inc for $116m (£74m) in cash... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin c.e.o. John Makinson has said there is a "natural convergence" between... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Aspiring authors are being given the chance to pitch their novels to a panel of agents at a new... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Donald Sobol, author of the beloved children's book series "Encyclopedia Brown," died Wednesday in Miami. He was 87. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The foundation behind a proposed museum honoring American authors has published a plan for the building. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Syrian author Samar Yazbek was prevented from appearing at the Ways with Words literary festival... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Alliance of Independent Authors has enlisted the help of agency A M Heath to represent... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo says his new work is a "tribute to the printed book" and will not be sold online. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House Childrens Publishing is to bring out a young adult novel written by Niall Leonard,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House Children's Publishing is to bring out a young adult novel written by Niall... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Los Angeles man who wrote a book about his alleged gay encounters with John Travolta filed a libel lawsuit on Thursday against the actor and his attorney. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2012-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The #5 book in Italy in May, Gianluigi Nuzzi’s His Holiness. The Secret Documents of Benedict XVI, has caused international news since its publication. Pope Benedict XVI’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, was arrested late last month on suspicion of releasing dozens of embarrassing letters to Nuzzi... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]