Jun 20 2011: The world's largest publishers have begun growing again after weathering the global recession over the past three years. According to the annual ranking of global publishing performance, compiled on behalf of Livres Hebdo, Buchreport, Publishers Weekly and The ...
Jun 16 2011: The iconic Travel Bookshop in Notting Hill, London faces an uncertain future after its current owner put it up for sale. The store has served book lovers for 32 years, and was made famous by the 1999 film "Notting Hill".
Jun 16 2011: Colum McCann has won the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, worth £87,582, for his novel Let the Great World Spin, beating 161 other entries. Let the Great World Spin also won the 2009 USA National Book Award for Fiction.
Jun 16 2011: Harry Potter fans have been reacting with excitement to a mysterious website launched by J K Rowling. Pottermore.com features a pink holding page with the description "coming soon" and Rowling's signature underneath. A spokesman for J K Rowling confirms that "It is ...
Jun 08 2011: Lilian Jackson Braun, author of the well-known and much beloved "Cat Who" mysteries, the first of which published in 1966, died on June 4 at the age of 97.
Jun 08 2011: 25-year-old Serbian-American author Tea Obreht has won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Tiger's Wife.. Set in the Balkans, the book tells the story of a young doctor tracing the life of her grandfather.
The annually awarded Orange Prize ...
Jun 07 2011: Yesterday, Apple reported that about 130 million books have been downloaded from the iBookstore. This statement was followed by the announcement of Apple's iCloud, "a free new service available that will synch content on Apple devices with servers in Apple's data ...
Jun 02 2011: Earlier this week, the California State Assembly followed a number of other states in passing a bill "aimed at closing a legal loophole that allows internet retailers to avoid collecting California sales taxes on purchases made via computer.
The state and local ...
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