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Jul 20 2009: Frank McCourt died yesterday, aged 78. His publisher, Scribner, accounted his passing on Sunday afternoon, as a result of metastatic melanoma.
Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy said, "Frank will be deeply missed, both as an author and as a warm and welcome ...
Jul 17 2009: Hong Kong has become China's bookseller. The Wall Street Journal reported that "this former British colony, famous as a global financial hub, is best known in Chinese political circles as something else: a supplier of the Chinese-speaking world's most sensitive books......
Jul 16 2009: In the wake of the British Labour government's plans to require all volunteers who visit a school once a month or more to register on a national database and pay a fee of 68 pounds (~$120), a number of children's authors and illustrators, including Philip Pullman, Anne ...
Jul 15 2009: Friends of the celebrated Irish writer Frank McCourt have been gathering at his bedside this past weekend to say their farewells.
The author of "Angela's Ashes" is gravely ill in a Manhattan hospice watched over by his devoted wife Ellen and other family members.
Jul 13 2009: Publishers Weekly's annual survey of publishing employees, published this week, paints a grim picture of the book industry, reporting that a 70% of the more than 1,400 respondents saw hiring freezes at their companies.
Jul 10 2009: Amazon have recently applied for patents that will enable them to run embedded ads on their $299+ Kindle electronic book reader. Although there's no sign that they plan on implementing the patent anytime soon, assuming its granted - their application indicates how they...
Jul 09 2009: A 44-year project to create the world's largest thesaurus is near completion. With 800,000 meanings for 600,000 words organized into more than 230,000 categories and subcategories, the thesaurus is twice the size of Roget's version.
It contains almost the entire ...
Jul 09 2009: The Library of Congress, organizer and sponsor of the National Book Festival, has announced an author line-up that includes John Grisham, David Baldacci, Jodi Picoult, Kate DiCamillo, Rick Riordan, Jeannette Walls, John Irving, Lee Child and many more. The event, that ...
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