Jan 19 2007: Political humorist and columnist Art Buchwald died on Wednesday 17th Jan of kidney failure at the age of 81. He wrote more than 8,000 newspaper columns and more than 30 books.
Jan 18 2007: Effective March 1, HarperCollins is closing its Regan Books office in Los Angeles.
"We feel our authors will be best served by being integrated into HarperCollins," Michael Morrison, president and group publisher Harper/Morrow, said in a statement.
Harper ...
Jan 17 2007: Google has introduced a new program that will allow publishers to generate revenue from Google Book Search by giving them the ability to sell access to their titles online. The concept is that publishers tell Google what books they ...
Jan 15 2007: February 3, 2007 marks the centennial birthday of James A. Michener (1907-1997), with many publishers rushing to reprint books by the author who has sold more books than Hemingway and Steinbeck combined. The University Press of Colorado has just published a book about ...
Jan 15 2007: The Chinese government has announced plans to establish 200,000 rural bookstores over the next five years, with the aim of promoting education and popularizing science and technology in rural areas. A spokesman said, "Each rural bookstore project will have at least 1...
Jan 15 2007: In a move that they hope will find new readers for their stable of literary fiction authors, San Francisco publisher MacAdam/Cage (best known for publishing "The Time Traveler's Wife") plan to publish 7 of their 11 Spring titles simultaneously in hardcover and paperback...
Jan 11 2007: Tillie Olsen died today, just two weeks shy of her 95th birthday. A longtime San Francisco resident, Olsen is best known to readers for her first published work, the much-anthologized short story, "I Stand Here Ironing". The story won the O’Henry Award for best short ...
Jan 10 2007: The shortlist for the 2006 Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread Awards) has been announced.
First Novel: "The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
Novel: "Restless" by William Boyd
Children's Book: "Set in Stone" by Linda Newbery
Poetry: "Letter to Patience" by ...
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