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May 25 2010: When Mark Twain died he left behind 5000 unedited pages of memoirs saying that he didn't want them published for one hundred years. 2010 marks one hundred years since Twain's death; so, in November, the University of California, Berkeley, who have stored the manuscript...
May 24 2010: Book sales tracked by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) are up 8 percent for the year to March 2010 versus the same period in 2009. Adult hardcovers rose 3.7 percent year on year; adult paperbacks are up 23.5 percent; audio book sales increased by 14.7 ...
May 21 2010: Robert Laffont, affectionately known as the grandfather of French publishing, died on 19th May aged 93.
The son of a naval officer, Laffont first embarked unenthusiastically on a legal career. But then came the second world war and a radical change of direction. ...
May 21 2010: The celebration kicked off on May 17--some 75 days before the official July 30 anniversary date--with the launch of a dedicated website, www.PenguinBooks75.com. Festivities take place through the summer and culminate with a gala at the New York Public Library in ...
May 19 2010: This summer Amazon.com will release Kindle for Android, a free e-book application that adds e-book support for Google’s popular and fast growing mobile phone operating system.
May 18 2010: Translated eBooks just received a tremendous boost from an online bookseller. Today Amazon.com, Inc. unveiled an unexpected new foreign language imprint, AmazonCrossing.
May 14 2010: The Association of Booksellers for Children and the American Booksellers Association moved another step closer to a possible merger this week with the release on Thursday of a letter of agreement.
May 12 2010: Frank Frazetta, an illustrator of comic books, movie posters and paperback book covers whose visions of musclebound men fighting with swords and axes to defend scantily dressed women helped define fantasy heroes like Conan, Tarzan and John Carter of Mars, died on Monday...
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