Like sales, networking is the bane of many an author's existence. But networking is a skill that often means the difference between success and failure for authors.

B&N was the bookseller whose massive expansion into superstores in the '80s and '90s was seen as the catalyst for the closure of numerous independent ...

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "The Inner Circle" by Brad Meltzer (Grand Central Publishing)...

For True Grit, Oscar buzz intersects with book buzz. And there's more buzz: Angelina Jolie pens a blurb for Gayle Lemmon's Dressmaker of Khair Khana, ...

Borders Books and Music is in trouble. It's not done well in the rough-and-tumble world of online bookselling, and according to the people who follow ...

Bookseller Ken Sanders, who owns Ken Sanders Rare Books, posted a call to action on his Web site earlier this week alerting customers to a Utah state...

Although Borders has been struggling financially for years, for the first time the book industry is openly, and in many cases actively, planning for w...

With Borders Books in trouble but Barnes and Noble doing well, and with indie bookstores getting so much positive attention, it seems like so many wac...

The selected titles were announced yesterday and include four debut novels. Among those on the list are Trespass by Rose Tremain, The Blasphemer by...

For the nine-week holiday period ending Jan. 1, comparable store sales for Barnes & Noble's brick-and-mortar business was up 9.7% compared to last yea...

For the first #WriterWednesday of the new year, amidst news of turmoil at Borders and sales records at Amazon, let's celebrate what goes on in booksto...

Among avid readers, the question of whether e-books would eventually replace the printed page remains a hotly debated subject. Many readers simply don...

Mainstream publishers say printed books are far from extinct. Nonetheless, their role in publishing is changing. Amazon.com now sells more e-books tha...

The novel "The Persian Boy," by Mary Renault, has it all. In the West, the book, which is filled with scenes of pederasty and homosexual passion, rais...

It's been a tough decade for bookstores with a record number of closings. We've done the bookstore obituaries and then we decided to celebrate the liv...

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "Port Mortuary" by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam Adult)...

In a move to provide authors with a service their publishers have not, Amazon is making current Nielsen BookScan sales data available to authors on it...

As the year comes to a close, we're all slammed with hoards of "best of" lists -- Best Books, Best Kids Books, Best Cook Books, etc. On top of that, ...

On Demand Books, the company behind the Espresso Book Machine, continues to extend its reach. Late last month it installed its first machine in contin...

As president of the independent American Booksellers Association, Tucker has been working with Google on its Google Editions initiative for the past t...

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "Cross Fire" by James Patterson (Little, Brown)...

We stopped by Mediabistro's Social Gaming Summit yesterday, gathering some publishing intelligence from Manny Anekal, the director of brand advertisin...

Jeff Waxman from Chicago's indie bookstore, 57th Street Books, has launched a Tumblr account called Against Amazon. MobyLives has more details: "[It ...

"APOLLO'S ANGELS: A History of Ballet" by Jennifer Homans The New York Times Homans's accomplishment is akin to setting the most delicate and beautifu...