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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 ...
Sep 14 2005: The saga of Google Print for Libraries continues with the Authors Guild's recent lawsuit against Google alleging that their ongoing project to make digital copies of all the books in the collection of the University of Michigan constitutes 'massive copyright...
Sep 01 2005: Amazon have unveiled their long talked of program to sell magazine-style short stories from established authors - their first foray into publishing per se. 'Amazon Shorts' allows customers to to buy and then download or print out short stories for 49 cents (...
Sep 01 2005: Google is expanding its controversial Google Print program (which allows users to search the full text of books) into France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain. To date, Google Print has been limited to English speaking books. However, Google ...
Sep 01 2005: James Patterson plans to give out $75,000 each year to libraries, bookstores, schools, or even individuals, who 'find original and effective ways to promote the excitement of books and reading. Applications must be received by October 15th.
Sep 01 2005: After months of accusations from unhappy authors who believe the company is deceptive and engages in gouging (complaints include non-payment of royalties, false promises about distribution etc.) PublishAmerica is back in the news, but in the words of Publishers ...
Aug 17 2005: John Harold Johnson, publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines and the most influential black publisher in history, died last week aged 87. Born in Arkansas City, his family struggled to save enough money so that his mother, Gertrude Johnson, could take him to ...
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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