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eReader price war

Jun 21 2010: The eBook price wars have commenced. A few hours after Barnes & Noble slashed Nook prices, Amazon has announced a special $189 price for the Amazon Kindle--coupled with free shipping....

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Nobel Prize winner, Jose Saramago, dies aged 87

Jun 18 2010: Jose Saramago, the Portuguese writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998 with novels that combine surrealist experimentation and a kind of sardonic peasant pragmatism, has died at his home in the Canary Islands. He was 87.

His publisher in the US, Houghton...

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US book sales up almost 25%

Jun 16 2010: Overall, April book sales in the USA were up 24.8 percent compared to April last year with significant gains in adult hardcovers (up 49 percent) and ebooks (up 127.4 percent). All book sales for the year to date are up almost 12 percent.

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British child abuse vetting scheme cancelled as 'draconian'

Jun 15 2010: The vetting scheme that, in its original proposal, would have required one in four British adults to go through a government approval process before being allowed contact with children and vulnerable adults, has been scrapped by the new British government as draconian. ...

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Barbara Kingsolver wins the 15th Orange Prize for Fiction

Jun 09 2010: Barbara Kingsolver has won the Orange Prize for Fiction for The Lacuna. The Orange Prize carries a 30,000 UK pound award (about US$48,000) award, and winners receive a bronze figurine nicknamed the "Bessie."

According to Daisy Goodwin, chair of judges, The Lacuna ...

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Apple bringing iBooks to iPhone; now estimated at 22% of ebook market

Jun 08 2010: Apple announced today that iBooks, its electronic reader application and e-bookstore, is getting new new features, including the ability to make notes, create bookmarks and read PDF documents. The app, which debuted on the iPad, is also coming to the iPhone and iPod ...

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BEA: 2010 Survey of Book-Buying Behavior

Jun 08 2010: Following up on a survey of readers first presented at the Winter Institute in San Jose, California, Jack McKeown, director of new business development for Verso Digital--and now a bookstore owner --presented findings at BEA based on the initial surveys as well as ...

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New Yorker '20 Under 40' List of Fiction Writers Worth Watching

Jun 03 2010: The New Yorker has chosen its "20 Under 40" list of fiction writers worth watching. The last list was published in 1999 and included future literary stars such as Jhumpa Lahiri, Nathan Englander and Junot Díaz; plus the likes of Michael Chabon, Jeffrey Eugenides, and ...

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