This week, we came across this list of ‘books you really should have read in high school’ over at MSNBC’s Today Books. While their picks are def...
British bookstores seemed largely unaffected by the rioting that took place last night across the UK, according to a report on The Bookseller website....
Amazon.com has announced a top ten list of books for the fall. Chris Schluep, a Senior Editor at Amazon.com books, calls it "one of the best seasons f...
At 80, Babar, the most famous and, at times, controversial elephant in children's picture books, shows few signs of aging....
Twimore is the new site for fans of the Twilight books. It's similar in many ways to the forthcoming website announced by J.K. Rowling for the Har...
Novelists from Margaret Atwood to David Mitchell are hoping to bring the dangers posed by climate change to life, through a new collection of short st...
If you want to buy an e-reader, you have to make a choice: should you grab today's bargain or wait for tomorrow's new model? The right answer depen...
The U.S. Poet Laureate is "the nation's official lightning rod for the poetic impulse of Americans" - that is, according to the Library of Congress, which each year selects the holder of the position. What does that description mean?
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Joseph Andres Romero says he could have easily ended up in a dark place. Growing up in Albuquerque's Old Town, the 22-year-old wri...
Previously, publishing has been about creating engaging, affordable physical storytelling experiences that fill our bookshelves and share our lives.
Amazon is facing a boycott from a coalition of nonprofits in California over its opposition to an internet sales tax. The group is calling for users t...
NEW YORK -- Rick Perry has the book world's attention. The Texas governor and recently declared GOP presidential candidate is the subject of new book...
HarperCollins is teaming up with fellow News Corporation company FOX News to publish an enhanced e-book on Aug 23, RISE OF FREEDOM: The New World Trad...
WORLD renowned American cartoonist Robert Crumb has pulled out of his headline appearance at the Graphic arts festival in Sydney later this month. ...
The Daily Show last night featured a piece on the decline of the bookstore. Author and comedian John Hodgman asked Jon Stewart, "Did you know books us...
Flickr photo by bodycoach2 Microsoft has announced today that it will be ending its e-reader software, called Microsoft Reader, 11 years after it...
The print-on-demand publishing company Publish America is under pressure following the reaction to a promise on its website, now removed, to present t...
Best-selling author Karin Slaughter releases a new short story tomorrow - with all of her proceeds going to local libraries. According to a press r...
The genre of science fiction can spawn some spectacularly unscientific flights of fancy in the name of space travel. Thanks to a new collaboration wit...
The perfect man is loyal, honest and clean. These, at least, were the top attributes as voted for by 58 British romance novelists in a poll sent out b...
From Narrative Magazine: Canadian author Margaret Atwood has published more than fifty works of fiction and criticism, including her well-known dystop...
A book supposedly by former Apple CEO Steve Jobs has become a bestseller in Taiwan, reports Dan Bloom on The Wrap blog. The book, called "Steve Pa...
Books are turned into movies all the time, but increasingly, they are also getting the graphic novel treatment.
The lead prosecutor in the Casey Anthony trial, Jeff Ashton, will publish a book about the case in November. On Saturday, the book, called "Imperfe...
A man's character lives in the books he loves. So perhaps the search for the soul of Dick Cheney should lead to the books that mean enough to him to m...
