Oct 07 2010: UK bookmaker Ladbrokes has halted betting on this year's Booker after C by Tom McCarthy received a flurry of bets setting "alarm bells ringing". At William Hill, bets are still open, but Tom McCarthy's novel is still the 10/11 favorite.
Oct 06 2010: The Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada's richest literary award, announced the finalists for their 2010 prize this morning.
Oct 05 2010: Barnes & Noble has officially launched PubIt, it's first foray into self-publishing, which will allow publishers and authors to distribute e-titles through BN.com. B&N says that "tens of thousands" of titles are already available from "thousands" of publishers and ...
Oct 05 2010: Jonathan Franzen, in the UK to promote his new book Freedom, is having an interesting time. Last week, thousands of copies of Freedom were recalled because the UK publishers had gone to press with a version of the book that did not include "minor corrections" made to ...
Sep 28 2010: Barnes & Noble founder Leonard Riggio and supporters have defeated investor Ronald W. Burkle's attempt to secure more spots on the company board. After a shareholder vote, Riggio and his two nominees, Dave Golden and David Wilson, will sit on Barnes & Noble board.
Sep 27 2010: Billionaire Ron Burkle has a fighting chance of ousting Barnes & Noble Inc's founder and Chairman Leonard Riggio from the top U.S. bookseller's board and taking a director's seat.
If Burkle doesn't win at Tuesday's shareholder meeting, sources tied to this bitter, ...
Sep 27 2010: What will Amazon's bookstore of the future look like? A newly granted Amazon patent hints that people may have to pay if they want to preview excerpts of a book before deciding whether to buy it. The patent, which lists Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos among its inventors, ...
Sep 27 2010: A private company in Maryland has taken over public libraries in ailing cities in California, Oregon, Tennessee and Texas, growing into the country's fifth-largest library system.
Now the company, Library Systems and Services, has been hired for the first time to ...
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