Fewer people are reading - but at least they're reading more, and in more formats than ever. That is, according to the results of a series of tele...
Chip Kidd is probably the world's most famous book designer. His work with Knopf Doubleday includes such classic covers as "Jurassic Park", "1Q84" and...
Superheros are often maligned as being only for children and geeks; "Leaping Tall Buildings: The Origins of American Comics" (powerHouse Books, $35), ...
JERUSALEM — Israel on Sunday declared Guenter Grass persona non grata, deepening a spat with the Nobel-winning author over a poem that deeply cr...
Suddenly A Knock At The Door by Etgar Keret FSG Originals, $14.99 paperback / $9.99 ebook Published on March 27, 2012 What is it about? A co...
If you live in or near Seattle, we'll be hosting a free event with author Karl Marlantes at the Elliot Bay Book Company on April 18th. We'd love to ha...
Rizzoli has just opened a stunningly beautiful new store inside luxury department store Saks Fifth Avenue in New York. Positioned on the ninth floor, ...
To celebrate National Poetry Month, we've created a playlist of our favorite lyrical poetry. Combining words and music from four decades of writing, i...
Written by Terri Giuliano for Indiereader.com Just a few years ago, readers paid little attention to books published by independent (indie) authors...
Salman Rushdie has written a memoir based on the time he spent hiding while under a fatwa that sentenced him to death in 1989. His novel "The Sata...
Earlier this week, the Department of Justice announced it was suing five publishers plus Apple for colluding over e-book pricing, in response to Amazo...
The official Harry Potter website Pottermore finally opened up to the public this morning. It happened without warning, announced with a brief announc...
This year, nobody was good enough. The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the most prestigious awards in American literature. Previous fiction w...
A new game-like app called Punch! is taking aim at pop culture targets - but when it comes to the "Game of Thrones" series, there's enough weirdness w...
UPDATE: We have a winner! With more than 40% of the vote, Karen Russell's Swamplandia! is the inaugural (and hopefully only) Hufflitzer prize winner. ...
The name's Zon. Amazon. Yes, the U.S. licensing rights to Ian Fleming's original 14 James Bond novels have been bought for ten years by Amazon.com...
By David Gaughran For Indiereader.com It’s one of the most recognizable quotes in the history of cinema: “Shaken, but not stirred.” The phras...
Over the weekend, John Cusack appeared at the LA Times Festival of Books to talk about Edgar Allen Poe, and his new movie The Raven. We were there...
By Andrew Losowsky, Books Editor Barnes & Noble just got some new, potentially activist shareholders. Earlier this year, analysts speculated that i...
The following is adapted from the preface to the British edition of John Grisham's new baseball novel, "Calico Joe", which is available on jgrisham.co...
Excerpted from The Spirit of Compromise by Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson. Copyright © 2012 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission. ...
Two academics from Oxford University claim to have uncovered fairly compelling evidence that Shakespeare didn't work alone. According to a press r...
"Life of Pi" was THE book of the mid-2000s. Written by Canadian author Yann Martel, the story of the Indian boy and a lifeboat filled with animals won...
Hollywood actress Diane Keaton's memoirs, "Then Again", was first published in November, and relied heavily upon her mother's personal journal. For th...
"When Women Were Birds" by Terry Tempest Williams Sarah Crichton Books, $23 Published April 10th, 2012 What is it about? After her mother's deat...
