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Feb 23 2008: Novelist Zadie Smith, who has received a number of awards including the Whitbread First Novel award for White Teeth and the Orange Prize for Fiction for On Beauty, has caused a stir in the blogosphere and the mainstream media with a blistering attack on literary prizes....
Feb 22 2008: Bestselling author Robin Moore, with more than 80 books to his credit, best known for writing The French Connection and The Green Berets, died Feb. 21 at the age of 82 in Kentucky.
Feb 19 2008: The Times of London takes aim at the monolithic chain stores and questions if they even offer good "value", whether it be for food, clothes or books:
"These days, how you decide to shop defines you as much as how you choose to dress. We treat supermarket shopping as ...
Feb 18 2008: The London Times reports on the realities of being a published author. Of the 200,000 books published in the UK last year, 190,000 sold fewer than 3,500 copies, with about 60,000 selling less than 18 copies. Things aren't much different in the US, where it's ...
Feb 16 2008: The London Times offers a thoughtful article on the merits of electronic books versus the traditional paper variety, concluding that "The books of all time will remain on paper, but those of the hour will increasingly be digital: the airport novel, the reference book, ...
Feb 15 2008: More than a quarter of a million people have signed up for the interactive webinar that Oprah Winfrey is conducting with Eckhart Tolle, author of her latest book club pick, A New Earth. The ten week webinar starts March 3.
Feb 14 2008: Bookselling This Week reports that the the Colorado Senate Judiciary Committee has ignored the pleas of booksellers and voted 4 - 2 to approve a bill that bans the sale to minors of books and magazines that are "harmful to minors."
In his testimony, Matthew...
Feb 11 2008: Publishing News reports that a new survey by BML (a research company specializing on the book market place) shows that most British consumers are not yet aware that it is possible to download books, let alone interested in the prospect of doing so.
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
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