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Apr 02 2012: The bad news came to McFarland & Co. in an email from Amazon. Starting Jan. 1, 2012 - then only 19 days away - Amazon would buy the publisher's books at 45 percent off the cover price, roughly double its current price break.
For McFarland, an independent publisher of...
Apr 02 2012: According to Reuters, The Justice Department could reach a settlement in the next few weeks with Apple Inc and some of the major publishers accused of colluding to push up electronic book prices.
While negotiations are still fluid, the settlement is expected to ...
Mar 30 2012: A Thai cookbook has won this year's Diagram Prize for oddest book title of the year. Cooking With Poo is written by Bangkok chef Saiyuud Diwong whose nickname is Poo - which is Thai for "crab". Diwong runs a cookery school for locals and tourists in the city's largest ...
Mar 29 2012: Poet Adrienne Rich has died aged 82. In its obituary, The New York Times describes Rich as "a poet of towering reputation and towering rage, whose work - distinguished by an unswerving progressive vision and a dazzling, empathic ferocity - brought the oppression of ...
Mar 29 2012: The Association of American Publishers reports a gain in net sales of 11.5% in January 2012 versus the previous year. The AAP said that publishers attributed "the near-total across-the-board percentage increases in both print and digital formats to general economic ...
Mar 27 2012: After many delays, ebook editions of JK Rowling's Harry Potter series are now available for sale from Pottermore. The first three books in the series are priced at US$7.99 and the final four books are US$9.99. The ebooks are not currently available for direct transfer ...
Mar 26 2012: Last Friday, Chuck Palahniuk was hit by a semi trailer while sitting in his car parked in a driveway off Washington state highway. Both car and trailer were written off but the drivers were uninjured, except for Palahniuk who reported a stiff neck.
Mar 21 2012: Someone mailed more than eleven pounds of marijuana to the offices of St. Martin's Press at the Flatiron Building in Manhattan today. Bound for an apparently fictitious employee named Karen Wright, the shipments had a potential street value of $70,000.
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