Hearings for the Dan Brown copyright infringement case wrapped up yesterday, and Sarah Lyall of The New York Times, for her part, thinks she knows who will win. Brown's publisher, Random House, is being sued ... Read More »
Once thought to be a blight on the North American literary landscape only, chick-lit has in recent times made inroads on other continents, according to a recent article in The New York Times. The piece ... Read More »
March 21, 2006
In the Sunday edition of The New York Times, Naomi Wolf addressed a troubling increase of a certain class of books targeted at young female readers. The books, which include Lisi Harrison's Clique series, Cecily ... Read More »
March 15, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
The CBC Arts website features a multifaceted look at marketing adult fiction to teen audiences. Although, through high school English classes and extracurricular reading, young adults have long been reading adult books, the inadvertent youth ... Read More »
March 15, 2006 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news
Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown took to the stand yesterday as the star defence witness in a copyright infringement lawsuit being launched against his publisher, Random House. The claimants this time around are Richard ... Read More »
March 14, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
In yet another bid to popularize the presentation of books online and worm its way into the hearts of publishers, Google has announced a new offer through which readers can purchase the right to read ... Read More »
March 14, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
As part of the festivities surrounding the U.K. and Ireland's World Book Day, which took place this year on Thursday, March 2, results of a survey on the topic of happy endings was released. The ... Read More »
March 8, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
Though her books are some of the more famous YA novels to have been banned in libraries, very few people know of the changes Judy Blume voluntarily made to one of her books in the ... Read More »
With hundreds of thousands of books being published each year and many of those being lacklustre, self-published books are often seen as ones that all conventional publishers refuse to touch -- many say for good ... Read More »
February 22, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
Addressing the double-edge of book publishing -- the glut of books published and the need for each book to be distinctive -- Julie Annan recently reported on the Telegraph website that now, more than ever, ... Read More »
February 22, 2006 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news, Opinion
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