Feb 25 2011: The American Booksellers Association reports twenty-five new bookstores opened in 2010, with several filling voids left by the closing of chain stores. The openings, and neighborhood response, suggest growing support for locally owned businesses, along with continued ...
Feb 23 2011: Since launching four month's ago Barnes & Noble's self-publishing software PubIt! has published more than 65,000 eBooks. Now the program is expanding with a PubIt! bestseller list, as well as the opportunity to be selected for B&N’s "Read In Store" program, which ...
Feb 23 2011: A bookseller's dedicated attempts to root out the early works of Daphne du Maurier have resulted in the recovery of five lost tales by the author of Rebecca and Jamaica Inn. They will be published in May.
The most anticipated of the stories is "The Doll", written in ...
Feb 18 2011: In the last two days, the two major partners of the e-reader and e-book company Kobo have declared bankruptcy: Borders Group in the USA and REDgroup Retail in Australia and New Zealand (see earlier stories for more on this). But Kobo assure customers in the affected ...
Feb 17 2011: REDgroup, the holding company that owns Australia's largest bookstore chain, Angus & Robertson, has collapsed unexpectedly. REDgroup, also owns the Borders stores in Australia (which are no longer connected with US Borders) and the Whitcoulls chain of stores in New ...
Feb 17 2011: Ablene Cooper, a 60-year-old woman who has long worked as a maid has filed a law suit against Kathryn Stocket, author of the bestselling novel, The Help claiming that the character of Aibileen Clark is an unauthorized appropriation of her name and image. For the past ...
Feb 17 2011: Google Inc. unveiled a digital-content service that gives publishers a bigger cut of subscription sales than a competing program introduced yesterday by Apple Inc.
Google will keep about 10 percent of the fees charged by publishers, Chief Executive Officer Eric ...
Feb 16 2011: Margaret K. McElderry, the grande dame of children's book publishing, has died aged 98, having continued to edit books into her 90s. According to the New York Times, as a book editor she "employed shrewd intuition, critical acumen and a nurturing way with authors to ...
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