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May 27 2008: To celebrate the centennial of the birth of Ian Fleming, Penguin UK and Doubleday in the US have published the 36th Bond book, Devil May Care, written by Sebastian Faulks. There will be also be a yearlong exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum: "For Your Eyes Only:...
May 23 2008: Publishers Weekly reports that Microsoft has pulled the plug on its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects, and has taken down both websites. Through the programs, Microsoft has digitized 750,000 books and indexed 80 million journal articles. Those ...
May 22 2008: Publishers Weekly reports that Barnes and Noble CEO Steve Riggio has given his firm backing to look for ways to end the traditional returns practice and predicts that it could be possible to find a solution "in a year or two." At the moment, about one-third of books ...
May 20 2008: BookLocker.com has filed a class action lawsuit against Amazon.com in response to Amazon’s recent attempts to force all publishers using Print on Demand (POD) technology to pay Amazon to print their books.
May 20 2008: Bloomberg reports that 39 year old Markus Dohle is to take over from Peter Olson, 58 (who is stepping down to take up a career in academia) as the CEO of Random House. Bertelsmann bought New York-based Random House in 1998. Dohle, who holds a degree in industrial ...
May 20 2008: Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Gordon Crovitz waxes lyrical about Amazon's Kindle, comparing the cultural shift from print to electronic books to the era of Aristotle when the written word displaced the oral tradition.
May 19 2008: The Boston Globe is calling into question the business ethics of GotBooks.com, a company that runs ads in the Boston Globe and many community newspapers asking for book donations, but is actually a for-profit used bookseller.
Robert Ticehurst, who runs GotBooks, says ...
May 19 2008: Veteran bookseller and publisher David Unowsky, writing in the Twin Cities Daily Planet, has some no-nonsense advice on how to place your book on store shelves (and ensure that it doesn’t just sit there).
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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