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Apr 08 2009: Some 200 people with print disabilities - physical impairments that restrict their ability to read print - protested in front of the Authors Guild headquarters in New York today, rallying against the Guild's attempt to get Amazon to disable the Kindle 2's text-to-speech...
Apr 07 2009: Writing in the British Spectator, Tom Leonard tells of his pilgrimage to Cornish, New Hampshire, where the 90-year-old author of The Catcher in the Rye leads a reclusive existence with his third wife.
Apr 06 2009: New York Times Co. has told employees at the Boston Globe it is prepared to shut down the newspaper within a month unless it gets labor concessions - a move that reflects both the financial pressure the Times Co. is under and the depths to which its once-prized property...
Apr 03 2009: On the week that President Barack Obama paid his first official visit to the UK at the G20 summit, he left with an unexpected piece of luggage - a British Book Awards Nibbie as the winner of the Biography of the Year for Dreams From My Father. Other winners include:
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Mar 31 2009: The Daily Telegraph (UK) reports on research that shows that just six minutes of reading can reduce stress levels by 2/3rds:
"Subjects only needed to read, silently, for six minutes to slow down the heart rate and ease tension in the muscles, he found. In fact it got...
Mar 31 2009: To the relief of book publishers, it appears that Borders has been given another 12 months to sort itself out financially with the announcement that leading shareholder and lender of last resort Pershing Square has extended their $42.5 million loan until April 1, 2010 -...
Mar 30 2009: Galley Cat reports on the ongoing problems with pirated copies of books such as J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Ken Follett's World Without End appearing on the popular file-sharing site, Scribd.
Mar 30 2009: The New York Times has seen a fall in stock price from $50 in 2001 to $4 today. Mark Bowden, writing in Vanity Fair, offers an extensive profile of the newspaper and its fourth generation publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.
L.A. Women by Ella Berman
Two ambitious writers in 1960s LA face betrayal when one writes a novel based on the other's life.
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