Nov 21 2012: Having lost out on their prospective bid to buy Penguin (which is to merge with Random House), News Corp, who already own Harper Collins, appears to have its eyes on Simon & Schuster which is currently owned by CBS Corp.
Currently, Random House, Penguin, Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon...
Google's ad revenue exceeds all U.S. print combined
Nov 13 2012: Google generated $20.8 billion in ad revenue in the first six months of 2012, while newspapers and magazines in the U.S. made $19.2 billion, according to Statista. While an astounding figure, it should be noted that this is not an apples to apples comparison as it compares Google's total worldwide...
Nov 12 2012: It's looking like the National Book Awards dinner this Wednesday evening in Manhattan will be a considerably more glamorous event than in recent years.
In addition to moving the event from a midtown Marriott to the Cipriani Wall Street and installing a red carpet to welcome celebrity...
New Bridget Jones book on the way, plus musical & movie
Nov 12 2012: Author Helen Fielding announced on U.K. radio today that the perennially lovelorn Bridget Jones will return for a third installment.
"The new novel is set in present-day London, with an entirely new scenario for Bridget," Fielding said on the show Women's Hour Friday. "If people laugh...
Nov 11 2012: In an interview with a French magazine, Philip Roth, aged 78, said that he does not intend to write any more novels, and has not been working on anything new since his last novel, Nemesis, was published three years ago:
Talking about the period after Nemesis was published,...
World Book Night announces titles and opens applications for would be givers
Nov 08 2012: World Book Night U.S. have announced the books to be given away during World Book Night 2013 on April 23, and have also opened the application process for those who would like to give away books. To see the list of books and apply to be a giver, click the link below.
Book Expo America offers expanded access to the public
Nov 07 2012: BookExpo America is expanding its program of opening the show to the general public, allowing exhibitors to sell books to those attendees and by promoting the show to them directly.
"Power readers" will be allowed onto the trade show floor on Saturday, June 1, which is the final day of...
European Union will accept an offer from Apple & four publishers to end antitrust probe
Nov 07 2012: European Union regulators will accept an offer by Apple and four publishers - Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Hachette and Holtzbrinck, parent company of Macmillan - to end an antitrust probe into e-book...
Oct 29 2012: From Jan 2013, Amazon will collect sales tax on its Arizona transactions as part of a legal settlement with the state. Amazon has also agreed to pay Arizona an undisclosed amount to settle the state's claim that it owed $53 million in back taxes from 2006 to...
Random House & Penguin Sign Merger Agreement, Scuttling a News Corp offer to buy Penguin
Oct 29 2012: In a deal that had been months in the making, Pearson and Bertelsmann announced Monday morning that they have signed an agreement to form a joint venture that will combine the businesses of Random House and Penguin. The deal, which is expected to close in the second half of 2013, will make Penguin...
Oct 26 2012: Jacques Barzun, the distinguished historian, essayist, cultural gadfly and educator who helped establish the modern discipline of cultural history and came to see the West as sliding toward decadence, died Thursday night in San Antonio, where he lived. He was...
Stranger than fiction, blending tragedy and farce, How to Create the Perfect Wife is an engrossing tale of the radicalism, and deep contradictions, at the heart of the Enlightenment.
Z, the novel about the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is at points charming and; like another reviewer, I kept thinking of the movie, "Midnight...
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Although heavy on the scientific details, which slowed down the story for me (OK, I admit, I was one of those liberal arts majors who skipped out on...
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Loved this book. Magical, quirky, enchanting I could go on. All books do not have to be literary fiction, sometimes it is just so comforting to read...
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U.S. ebook sales up in 2012, but rate of growth is slowing(May 16 2013) In 2012, trade book sales (i.e. non academic book sales) rose 6.9%, to $15.049 billion, and e-book sales continued to grow, although the rate of growth...
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