US publishers' sales of ebooks more than doubled in 2011, meaning that the digital book is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-18 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 ]
Fiction Uncovered will be running a four-day pop-up radio station, Fiction Uncovered FM at Foyles... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
A title from crowd-sourcing publisher Unbound has been chosen for Fiction Uncovered’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orange will not renew its title sponsorship of The Women's Prize for Fiction after this year... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Octogenarian Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld has won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Phoenix Yard Books, which launched in 2011, is to expand its fiction publishing in 2013 with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Raintree has acquired the first titles for its fledgling fiction list, Curious Fox, from Fiction... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
An unconventional collection of novels failed to generate a consensus among the Pulitzer board members. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The late Manning Marable won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for history, honored for a Malcolm X book. But no Pulitzer Prize was awarded for fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The literary genre is white-hot in Hollywood, with filmmakers bidding on unpublished books and paying as much as $1 million for the rights to relatively modest sellers.The back-to-back blockbuster successes of "Harry Potter," "Twilight" and now "The Hunger Games" have turned the hunt for fresh... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
By encouraging readers to tackle longer, more sophisticated novels, the queen of daytime TV may have hurt overall fiction sales. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2012-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Other National Book Critics Circle honorees include writer John Lewis Gaddis for 'George F. Kennan: An American Life' and Maya Jasanoff for 'Liberty's Exiles.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The under-the-radar author won for her collection "Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories."Reporting from New York -- The National Book Critics Circle gave its 2011 fiction prize to Edith Pearlman, an under-the-radar writer of short stories, at its annual awards ceremony Thursday evening at... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
A novel banned by the Chinese government has made the longlist for the Independent Foreign... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Louisa Joyner is to take up the permanent role of editorial director at HarperFiction, reflecting... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
'The Lifespan of a Fact' lays out a thought-provoking debate of the issue between authors John D'Agata and Jim Fingal.The key passage in John D'Agata and Jim Fingal's "The Lifespan of a Fact" (W.W. Norton: 124 pp., $17.95 paper) comes late in the book, during an exchange on the role of fact in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
American author Curtis Sittenfeld has been announced as the latest author to re-create a Jane... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Transworld titles earn pride of place in both the Mass-market and Original Fiction charts this... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
W H Smith is to promote cross- over young adult (YA) titles more directly to adults via a new... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]