Today's book news: Will Cormac McCarthy win the Nobel Prize in Literature? Jonathan Franzen reunites with his stolen glasses ... Read More »
October 5, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
This Tuesday, Amazon unveiled a Beta test of its new Kindle for the Web, an application allowing users to read and embed the first chapters of selected Kindle titles online. Accessible from Amazon's individual book ... Read More »
September 28, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Three Journey Prize finalists, chosen from a longlist of a dozen short stories collected in The Journey Prize Stories 22, will be announced on Wednesday by judges Pasha Malla, Joan Thomas, and Alissa York. Recognizing ... Read More »
September 28, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
In May, AmazonCrossing, a publishing imprint of Amazon.com, announced the release of its first translated title, Tierno Monénembo's French-language The King of Kahel. This Wednesday, it promised to translate and publish six more books from ... Read More »
September 22, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Generations of pre-J.K. Rowling books described kids acting (mostly) without adult supervision. Among other KidLit classics, characters from Peter Pan, Pippi Longstocking, and The Chronicles of Narnia often had at least one missing parent. But ... Read More »
September 21, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
It may not be the world's priciest volume, but the leather-bound, silk-wrapped $710 (£445) Jimmy Page collection, to be released on Sept. 27, is causing a stir. The Led Zeppelin guitarist personally selected the autobiographical ... Read More »
September 14, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Jonathan Franzen's new book has brought forth a stream of criticism of The New York Times' sexism and set off a small panic in the publishing world when Obama received an ARC. Now reporters and ... Read More »
September 14, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow's The Grand Design (Bantam Books) was Amazon's top seller upon its release on Tuesday. It has since fallen to the fourth spot, raking in less than Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy ... Read More »
September 8, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
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