Keep your children's minds sharp with a summer book reading program that offers kid-friendly perks and freebies.
NEW YORK — Upcoming novels by Sue Grafton, Elizabeth Gilbert and Wally Lamb are among 40 fall and winter releases excerpted in a free e-book. "Bu...
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Google has not killed the library and ebooks won't do it either. The biggest threat to the public library in American culture is limited hours.
A young woman is jumping up and down in front of the New York Public Library wearing a sandwich sign that says, "Hate Reading? Talk To Me!" She's wavi...
The cover of Castle Freeman Jr.'s sixth book, a collection of 12 stories set in the rural North East, has a few eye-catching elements: The image is of...
Copyright law gives authors and publishers exclusive rights for a "limited time," to encourage them to create and distribute works. So what is entering the public domain in the U.S. this year? Not a single published work. Why should you care?
Ever heard of World Book Night? If not, you will. Because they want your help to give away free books. WBN first launched in the UK last year. It t...
I made myself a rule: I would only keep as many books as would fit on a tiny, two-tiered bookcase. I wheeled a dolly overflowing with books into the lobby of my building with a note: FREE BOOKS. 45 minutes later, all of the books were gone. I was horror stricken.
Previously, publishing has been about creating engaging, affordable physical storytelling experiences that fill our bookshelves and share our lives.
A green charity offering books for free aims to open an outlet in every town in the UK, and has called on publishers to donate titles....
If your vacation plans include a little light summer reading, you couldn’t ask for lighter fare this year. ...
Do you feel strongly enough about the impact of what you have to say that you can live with cutting down trees to make your book?
I recently re-issued the free app as a lengthy excerpt and posted 150 pages of "Knife Music" on Scribd.com. Since then some folks have asked me whether giving away the whole book or these extended free samples has helped sell books.
It's National Library Week 2010 and we're celebrating America's most amazing libraries. They're still a haven for reading in this day of electronics a...
Can a $50 stack of paperback books do as much for a child's academic fortunes as a $3,000 stint in summer school? An experimental program in seven st...
The Next Queen of Heaven, a new novel by Wicked author Gregory Maguire, is available starting today for the low, low price of $0.00. That's not a typo...
NEW YORK — The Oprah touch doesn't just work for traditional books. More than 1 million copies of Suze Orman's "Women & Money" were downloaded a...
In an attempt to increase book sales, HarperCollins Publishers will begin offering free electronic editions of some of its books on its Web site, incl...
