MARATHON DE BOSTON - Tom Lonergan a écrit un livre intitulé Heartbreak Hill et sous-titré "Le Thriller du Marathon de Boston". L'histoire? Un complot terroriste visant à entraîner une série d'explosions pendant la course, tuant et blessant au passage coureurs et spectateurs. Un roman publié en 2002.

Quand...

The future of print is a bright one, as my new book, Fully Booked - Ink on Paper: Design and Concepts for New Publications (Gestalten, $60), attempts to prove.

It's a showcase of innovative physical book designs from around the world co-edited by Robert Klanten, Matthias Hübner...

In 2002, Tom Lonergan wrote a book called Heartbreak Hill. Subtitled "The Boston Marathon Thriller," the novel was about a terrorist plot to set off a series of bombs during the race, killing and wounding spectators and runners.

When Lonergan learned of the real bombing, he told...

This month, HuffPost Books is teaming up with our Teen editors to read John Green's The Fault in Our Stars. You can follow our conversations and leave your own thoughts on our discussion page.

To start off the reading, Andrew, our Books editor and Liz, from our Teen...

This piece on Amanda Palmer's TED Talk is the first in a new series called Tough Love. I love publishing, but I believe that many traditional aspects of the industry are struggling - not due to the rise of ebooks, but because of the ways in which they...

Three independent bookstores are taking Amazon and the so-called Big Six publishers (Random House, Penguin, Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Macmillan) to court in an attempt to level the playing field for book retailers. If successful, the lawsuit could completely change how ebooks are sold.

The class-action complaint,...

Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer by Kenneth W. Mack ($35, Harvard University Press) is a look at the constructed narrative of the African American lawyer in the formation of civil rights in the USA.

As the book states,

Who was the...

The 'It Gets Better' Project was founded in September 2010 by columnist and author Dan Savage and his husband Terry Miller, "to show young LGBT people the levels of happiness, potential, and positivity their lives will reach." Since then, more than 50,000 user-submitted videos have been...

The hardest part of going on holiday is choosing which books to take with you. A lightweight thriller or a serious nonfiction? An old favorite or the latest hot literary title?

(Of course, those who use ebook readers might say, "All of the above and more.")

Every decent-sized airport...

Like physical books, ebooks have weight. A computer scientist at UC Berkeley calculated as much in 2011, finding that a 4GB ebook reader filled with 3,500 ebooks weighs a billionth of a billionth of a gram more than if it were empty of data —a difference that is approximately the...

Ebooks, like physical books, have weight. That is, according to a computer scientist at UC Berkeley, who calculated in 2011 that a 4GB ebook reader filled with 3,500 ebooks weighs a billionth of a billionth of a gram more than if it were empty of data - a...

The biggest problem with the Met's new production of The Tempest is, well, that it's The Tempest. There's no way of interpreting the story closely that doesn't involve a supposedly happy ending (spoiler alert for 400-year-old text, folks) being the return to royalty of an exiled European aristocrat who has...

The Frankfurt Book Fair is the world's biggest trade fair for the book industry. This year, there were more than 7,000 professional stands at last week's fair, showing off their latest titles and technology to distributors, literary agents, printers, media and publishers in a wide variety of languages....

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The James Bond books by Ian Fleming have been in print since they were written in the 1950s-60s. In preparation for the new Bond movie Skyfall, new releases of the classic titles are emerging on both sides of the Atlantic.

In the UK, Vintage Books

Police have taken an apparently disgruntled author into custody after a popular literary agent and blogger was attacked in her car Thursday.

Pam van Hylckama Vlieg, an agent in San Francisco with Larsen Pomada who runs the website Bookalicio.us, told The Huffington Post, "I...

A few thoughts about Twitter. Twitter is a fascinating platform. It can generate a global community of followers. It can bring us closer to the authors whose work we love - we can read the thoughts of Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, Judy Blume,

Amazon came under fire this week from Love146, a group that campaigns against child trafficking and exploitation, for selling what appeared to be a self-published e-book encouraging pedophilia overseas, "Age of Consent: A Sex Tourists Guide!" by Peter F. Friedmann.

Though the book has now been...

According to rumor, tomorrow's Olympic opening ceremony will feature a 40-foot Voldemort battling 30 Mary Poppins, who will float down into the stadium on their umbrellas.

We say, YES! It's about time that Britain's literary heritage was properly celebrated at this iconic event, and in such a...

A lot of people today have expressed their anger at a blog post published on HuffPost Books, written by the creators of a website called Stop the GR Bullies.

I invited them to submit their post. Here's some background on what happened, and here's what I think...