by Steven W. Beattie

Google reaches book-scanning detente in France

France has become the first country in which Google has reached an industry-wide deal to scan out-of-print works still under copyright. According to The New York Times, Google has struck a deal with the French ... Read More »

June 11, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Macmillan, Penguin fire back at U.S. Department of Justice

By Steven W. Beattie

Two of the publishers named in a U.S. antitrust lawsuit alleging illegal price fixing of ebooks have shot back at the Department of Justice in affidavits filed last week in New York. In an affidavit ... Read More »

June 4, 2012 | Filed under: Industry news

John Updike Society to purchase author’s childhood home

By Steven W. Beattie

The John Updike Society announced last week that it has entered into an agreement to purchase the Shillington, Pennsylvania, home the Pulitzer Prize“winning author lived in as a child. The house, which resides at 117 ... Read More »

May 14, 2012 | Filed under: Authors

Fifty Shades of Grey parody gets publisher

By Steven W. Beattie

How does E.L. James know she's really arrived? Not because her Twilight-inspired work of fan fiction was transmogrified into a bona fide mainstream phenomenon. Not because she scored a lucrative deal with a major publishing ... Read More »

May 7, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Controversy surrounds U.K. publication of Taliban poetry

By Steven W. Beattie

When a nation is at war, where does it draw the line between artistic freedom and propaganda? That is the question swirling around a volume of Taliban poetry set to publish later this month in ... Read More »

May 7, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Stephenie Meyer and David McKee among most frequently challenged authors, librarians say

By Steven W. Beattie

Racism, insults, and support for "wealth inequality" are among the most common complaints against children's books at U.K. libraries, according to an article in the Telegraph. Books featuring classic characters such as Babar and Tintin ... Read More »

April 23, 2012 | Filed under: Libraries

Howard Jacobson says call to ban Israeli theatre group “treasonable” to artists

By Steven W. Beattie

Novelist Howard Jacobson has written an open letter to The Observer criticizing a group of actors, playwrights, and directors who suggested that Israel's national theatre company, Habima, should not be allowed to perform at the ... Read More »

April 9, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

U.K. and U.S. celebrate World Book Night; plans for a Canadian version in the works

By Steven W. Beattie

Just Kids by Patti Smith. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. Q Is for Quarry by Sue Grafton. While these books may appear to have little in common, ... Read More »

April 9, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Events

The anatomy of Ann Patchett’s influence

By Steven W. Beattie

Last year, PEN/Faulkner Award winner Ann Patchett opened Parnassus Books, an independent bookstore in Nashville (a city that previously had no bookstore of its own). Her efforts to support independent bookselling have secured her a ... Read More »

April 2, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Adrienne Rich: 1929-2012

By Steven W. Beattie

One week after the death of Canadian poet Jay Macpherson, the Los Angeles Times is reporting the death of yet another important and influential poet. Adrienne Rich, the American writer, feminist, and essayist, is dead ... Read More »

March 28, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

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Google reaches book-scanning detente in France

Macmillan, Penguin fire back at U.S. Department of Justice

John Updike Society to purchase author’s childhood home

Fifty Shades of Grey parody gets publisher

Controversy surrounds U.K. publication of Taliban poetry

Stephenie Meyer and David McKee among most frequently challenged authors, librarians say

Howard Jacobson says call to ban Israeli theatre group “treasonable” to artists

U.K. and U.S. celebrate World Book Night; plans for a Canadian version in the works

The anatomy of Ann Patchett’s influence

Adrienne Rich: 1929-2012

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