Nov 19 2009: The winners of the 2009 National Book Awards have been announced at the National Book Foundation's 60th National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner.
Nov 13 2009: After two delays, attorneys for the AAP, Authors Guild and Google filed an amended settlement agreement today in an effort to end litigation brought by the publishers and authors against Google over its library scanning program. The biggest change in the agreement deals with international works....
Linden MacIntyre wins Canada's Giller Prize for 'The Bishop's Man'
Nov 11 2009: Veteran journalist and author Linden MacIntyre has won Canada's Giller Prize for his second novel. The Bishop's Man is published by Random House Canada, the title currently has no U.S....
Nov 09 2009: Today is when the Google Books Settlement parties were supposed to present their revised agreement to the Federal court. But unconfirmed reports this morning indicate that the judge may have been asked for a little more time - possibly until Friday the 13th of...
Nov 06 2009: As Barnes & Noble prepares to close all but two of their B. Dalton mall stores by January 2010, Borders announced that they will close about 200 of the remaining mall-based Waldenbooks outlets in January, which will result in the loss of about 1500 mostly part-time jobs. This will leave Borders...
Nov 05 2009: In a joining of like minds, NPR and ABA have partnered to provide thoughtful bestsellers and unique book coverage to readers, both on NPR.org and IndieBound.org. Starting November 13, NPR Books will publish four bestseller lists weekly, using the Indie Bestseller List feeds; and the book info...
Oct 28 2009: The Nook has become the fastest selling single item at Barnes & Noble since the retailer introduced the e-reader October 20, according to company CEO Steve Riggio.
Amazon reported that the Kindle was its fastest selling product in both unit and dollar terms. Neither company has...
Oct 20 2009: Barnes and Noble's ebook reader, the Nook, is about to launch. Among Nook's features are that you can loan books to friends and that it supports an open standard so that anything can be distributed on it, including 1/2 million free public domain titles from Google. It is priced at US $259 and is...
Oct 19 2009: As Walmart and Amazon vie for the lowest online prices - Walmart.com have lowered their price on a handful of top selling hardcovers to $8.99, while Amazon remain at $9.00
Walmat CEO Raul Vazquez told the The Wall Street Journal last week that they "will go as low as we need to" in...
Oct 14 2009: The National Book Foundation has announced the finalists for the 2009 National Book Awards. The winners will be announced at the National Book Foundation's 60th anniversary celebration on November 18 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City, hosted by Andy Borowitz. Gore Vidal and Dave Eggers will...
Questions mount before debut of international Kindle
Oct 12 2009: Amazon has given the international publishing community plenty to ponder as it gathered this week for the Frankfurt Book Fair. The pending release of a $279 Kindle that will be available for sale in more than 100 countries has raised many questions including: How will the integrity of territorial...
Oct 09 2009: Romanian-born author Herta Mueller* has won the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature. A member of Romania's ethnic German minority Mueller was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain. The Nobel committee honored her for work that "with the concentration of poetry and...
It is the cusp of World War I, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ fabricated animals as their weaponry. The Leviathan is a living airship, the...
One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character.
In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their...
The acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies.
Like Robin Hood, Zorro is a story that almost everyone knows, but few have read. The original book by Johnston McCulley is out of print and ...
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I'm 13 years old and my teacher handed me this book and told me to read and do a report on it. I looked at the cover, saw the title (which made no ...
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I'm 13 years old and my teacher handed me this book and told me to read and do a report on it. I looked at the cover, saw the title (which made no ...
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The 2009 National Book Award Winners(Nov 19 2009) The winners of the 2009 National Book Awards have been announced at the National Book Foundation's 60th National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit...
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Google Settlement Filed(Nov 13 2009) After two delays, attorneys for the AAP, Authors Guild and Google filed an amended settlement agreement today in an effort to end litigation brought by the...
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