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Apr 21 2008: The Associated Press reports that Signet, an imprint of Penguin Group, will no longer be publishing historical romance author Cassie Edwards's novels after it was shown that her books included numerous passages copied from historical works. Edwards, who has written ...
Apr 17 2008: Estimates from the US Census Bureau show Jan-Feb book sales up 6.7% year on year - a little ahead of total retail sales which are up 5.8%. Apparently Census Bureau definitions of bookstore sales do not include "electronic home shopping, mail-order, or direct sale" or ...
Apr 17 2008: President Bush's proposed 2009 budget eliminates all the funding for Reading Is Fundamental's book distribution program that, since 1966, has provided more than
325 million books to more than 30 million underprivileged children.
“With 13 million children living in ...
Apr 17 2008: A three-day trial over an unauthorized Harry Potter encyclopedia ended Wednesday with J.K. Rowling stating that she is ''vehemently anti-censorship'' and generally supportive of the right of other authors to write books about her novels but that Vander Ark had ''...
Apr 16 2008: A Harry Potter fan who sought to publish an encyclopedic guide to the wildly popular fantasy novels broke down and cried on the witness stand Tuesday as he faced off in court against his idol J.K. Rowling.
According to USA Today, the former middle school librarian, ...
Apr 16 2008: Three first novelists remain in contention for this year's Orange prize for fiction, in a shortlist announced this morning that pits them against three others with a total of 24 novels behind them.
Chair of the judges Kirsty Lang said she was "extremely pleased" to ...
Apr 15 2008: J.K. Rowling, the creator of the wildly popular Harry Potter series who rose from poverty to become the world’s most famous children’s author, took the stand in a Manhattan courtroom on Monday to sharply criticize a fan accused of stealing her work to publish a ...
Apr 15 2008: In the wake of author Thomas Kohnstamm claims to have made up parts of the Lonely Planet books he wrote, lifted information from other publications and accepted gifts in contravention of Lonely Planet's policies, Lonely Planet have reviewed the books that Kohnstamm ...
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