Aug 08 2008: The Wall Street Journal reports on how publishers are trying to encourage more boys to read by publishing particularly gory titles such as Vlad the Impaler: The Real Count Dracula, with graphic descriptions and blood-red ink stains.
Aug 07 2008: Publishers Weekly provides an update on the ongoing legal battle between Amazon and Booklocker. In May, Booklocker filed an antitrust lawsuit against the giant e-tailer because of Amazon's decision to make print-on-demand publishers use its BookSurge subsidiary to ...
Aug 06 2008: Media Bistro's Galleycat blog reports on the ongoing saga surrounding the recent cancellation of Sherry Jones's The Jewel of Medina, a fictional account of the life of Aisha, one of the Prophet Muhammad's wives who married him when she was nine years old. The book was ...
Aug 05 2008: It is estimated that Amazon have sold 240,000 Kindles so far. Adding the amounts spent on digital books, newspapers, and blogs purchased to read on the device, and the business is estimated to have brought in $100 million. An analyst at Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. predicts ...
Aug 04 2008: Hachette Book Group USA estimates that it sold 1.3 million copies of Breaking Dawn, on August 2, the day the eagerly awaited final novel in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga was released.
Aug 04 2008: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose stubborn, lonely and combative literary struggles gained the force of prophecy as he revealed the heavy afflictions of Soviet Communism in some of the most powerful works of the 20th century, died late on Sunday at the age of 89 in Moscow.
Aug 01 2008: Amazon has reached an agreement to acquire AbeBooks, the British Columbia-based online marketplace that has over 110 million titles for sale through its bookseller network. The purchase, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter, will strengthen Amazon's already ...
Jul 31 2008: Publishers Weekly reports that The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a collection of wizarding fairy tales handwritten and illustrated by Rowling, will be published on December 4 by Children’s High Level Group, the English children’s charity co-founded by Rowling and Emma ...
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