-
Your next favorite book
is waiting.
May 22 2006: According to Publishers Weekly, Bowker (the official US agency for assigning barcodes for books, known as ISBNs) estimate that there was a 9% decline in titles in 2005 versus 2004, to 172,000. Some are disheartened to see that the drop is mainly due to lower...
May 22 2006: Valerie Plame, the former Central Intelligence Agency officer, has sold her memoir for a little more than $2.5 million. Fair Game is scheduled to be published in the fall of 2007 by Crown.
May 22 2006: Making one of the most dramatic environmentally conscience production moves of any major publisher to date, Random House announced Tuesday that it will be significantly increasing its reliance on recycled paper. Over the next four years it plans to increase the ...
May 03 2006: Kaavya Viswanathan got a six-figure two-book contract as a Harvard-freshman based on her debut, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life, which was written while she was still in high-school. It was published in March and all seemed to be going ...
May 03 2006: Donald Trump and Robert Kioysaki (Rich Dad, Poor Dad) have teamed up to write a book. They plan to publish it under Kiyosaki’s Rich Press imprint with the aim of drawing interest from the big houses who will scramble for a piece of the pie. The book is ...
May 03 2006: John Kenneth Galbraith has died at the age of 97. He is the author of titles such as The Great Crash, 1929; The Affluent Society; The New Industrial State; The Anatomy of Power; The Culture of Contentment; and The Good Society. As the New York Times said in ...
May 03 2006: RainToday.com conducted a survey of 200 authors of business books, and concluded that those who invested some of their own money to promote their books did substantially better than those who didn't. 51% of those who took part in the survey invested their own money ...
Apr 20 2006: Sebastian Junger and his publisher Norton are confronting angry claims from the daughter of a woman whose murder he examines in his newest book, A Death in Belmont (just released in hardcover), in which he examines the 1963 murder of Bessie Goldberg, ...
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.
Your guide toexceptional books
BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
