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Jan 28 2008: Slate magazine casts doubts on Amazon's top reviewers, such as Grady Harp who has reviewed over 3,500 books, CDs and movies for Amazon; and Harriet Klausner who has averaged 45 book reviews per week for the past five years.
Jan 28 2008: As major chains report weak holiday sales, the American Booksellers Association reports that a nationwide survey of 1,382 independent retailers has found that a desire to support locally owned businesses is emerging as a factor in people's shopping choices. Independent ...
Jan 28 2008: Judith Regan has settled the $100 million lawsuit she filed against her former employer, Harper Collins and the publisher's parent News Corp., in November. Regan and News Corp. issued Friday noting that an "equitable" and "confidential" settlement has been reached with ...
Jan 27 2008: Publishing News reports that the Nestlé Children's Book Prize has ended after 23 years of partnership between Nestlé and the UK reading charity Booktrust. Susan Barry, Group Marketing Director for Hachette Livre Children's Books, says, "Nestle was one of the few ...
Jan 24 2008: A.L. Kennedy has won the Costa Award (formerly Whitbread Award) for her novel Day. Browse an excerpt and reviews at BookBrowse
Jan 22 2008: Ishmael Beah, whose story of serving as a soldier in war-torn Sierra Leone has been questioned by reports in an Australian newspaper (see previous news story) has issued a frank statement supporting his position that the dates of his service in the conflicts in his home...
Jan 22 2008: A report in the Australian calls into question Ishmael's Beah's story of serving as a child soldier in Sierra Leone, as described in his memoir.
The second page of Beah's book says, "The first time that I was touched by war I was 12. It was in January 1993." But, ...
Jan 18 2008: The New York Times reports on the homeless men and women who eke out a living scavenging books from New Yorker's trash. Some of them sell their books on the street; others go for the surefire cash at used bookstores such as the Strand.
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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