The 2011 edition of BookExpo America, or as we call it in the trade "BEA," has just concluded -- the industry's annual hoedown where booksellers, authors, agents, and publishers gather in the uninspiring setting of New York's Javits Convention Center to talk shop, promote new books, and of course gossip....

My last post, in which I mused about whether we were living through a "phony war" period in publishing, generated thoughtful comments in several places around the web. Several readers questioned my statement that we were likely to see a...

From what I can gather around town, major trade publishers have been having a pretty good year -- a surprisingly good year, given a lingering recession and the widespread predictions of the death of the book business. And it seems pretty clear a primary reason, perhaps the reason, for our...

The kerfuffle of the week has been the news that an acclaimed new book, "The Last Train from Hiroshima" by Charles Pellegrino, had to be withdrawn by its publisher following the revelation that important details in it, including the testimony of a supposed eyewitness source, were apparently fabricated....