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Jan 08 2007: The Sobol Award, the contest that promised unpublished writers cash, literary representation and publication, has been canceled. Recently, Simon & Schuster had agreed to publish the winners under their Touchstone/Fireside imprint but, according to a statement on the ...
Jan 04 2007: Dr. Richard Carlson died of a cardiac arrest at the age of 45 in December 2006 while in flight from San Francisco to New York where he was scheduled to make two TV appearances for his latest book Don't Get Scrooged: How to Thrive in a World Full of Obnoxious, ...
Jan 04 2007: A federal judge has sentenced the former vice president of advertising at Advanced Marketing Services to 36 months in prison for her role in falsifying earnings. Sandra Miller Christie pleaded guilty in 2005 to charges that she conspired with other former ...
Jan 04 2007: The title of the seventh and final Harry Potter book has been announced: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. No on-sale date has been announced but the word from those who study all things Potter suggest that 7.7.07 is a likely contender.
Jan 04 2007: Judith Regan, publisher of Regan Books, the HarperCollins imprint responsible for a number of controversial but highly profitable titles such as three books about Scott Peterson, was dismissed shortly before Christmas following the furor over the planned memoir by O....
Jan 04 2007: On Jan 2nd The New York Times reported on the difficulties faced by public libraries faced with "rowdy students" with nowhere else to go after school. This has led Maplewood Memorial Library, in Essex County, New Jersey, to close its doors on weekdays between 2....
Dec 15 2006: A one-woman show based on Jeannette Walls The Glass Castle opened in New York a few days ago. The show will now travel to schools around the country as part of The Literature to Life program that presents performances of "significant American literary works".&...
Dec 15 2006: According to the Association of American Publishers, which compiles sales data from 81 publishers, book sales in October were up 14% year on year, but sales for the year as a whole are down by 0.3% to $7.8 billion. The categories that made significant gains in ...
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