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Dec 13 2005: Disney plans to mark Winnie The Pooh's 80th anniversary with a new animated series introducing a 6-year-old girl as a central character.
Disney bought the rights to Pooh in the 1960s from the family of Stephen Slesinger, a literary agent who acquired ...
Nov 30 2005: The winners of the 2005 National Book Awards were announced about a week ago:
Fiction: Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
Nonfiction: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Poetry: Migration by W.S. Merwin
Young People: The Penderwicks : A ...
Nov 09 2005: Last month I reported to you that it was rumored Amazon would shortly be launching a micro-payment scheme for reading books online. As of this week rumor has turned to fact with two announcements from Amazon.
The first is the launch of Amazon Pages, a program ...
Nov 09 2005: Over at Random House it's been a busy week for announcements. Firstly, at almost the same time as Amazon announced their micro-payment scheme, Random House announced their own proposed terms of sale for digital viewing, with a plan that will allow online visitors...
Nov 09 2005: Last week a spokesperson for Marvel Comics confirmed that Stephen King has agreed to write a new installment of his Dark Tower series as a graphic novel to be published in 2006. Sources say that the new installment will be published first as a comic book periodical ...
Oct 19 2005: According to Bowker, there were approximately 375,000 new English-language books published in 2004 in the combined markets of the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Adding in imported editions available in multiple ...
Oct 19 2005: British playwright Harold Pinter was the surprise winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature last week.
The 75-year-old Londoner, son of a Jewish dressmaker, is one of Britain's best known ...
Sep 14 2005: The Sea by John Banville won the Man Booker Prize (a leading UK literary prize) for fiction on the 10th October and, as a result, his USA publisher Knopf (part of Random House) are speeding up the publication of The Sea in the ...
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.
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