August 30, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
Details on the settlement have been released concerning Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and 55 attorneys general from throughout the U.S. in the ongoing lawsuit over ebook pricing. The terms of the deal state that ... Read More »

Kobo and Nook to stock Amazon ebooks Anaïs Nin on self-publishing, letterpress, and handcraft J.K. Rowling to ... Read More »
August 30, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

Kobo strikes deal with the American Booksellers Association Will Amazon's entry into India be a "game changer"? Home of Rayner Unwin, publisher of Tolkien and Dahl goes on sale Hasbro and Barnes & Noble partner to ... Read More »
August 29, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

The shortlist for the 21st annual Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction has been revealed. The $10,000 prize, administered by Wilfrid Laurier University, recognizes a first or second published work of creative non-fiction by a ... Read More »
August 28, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Danny McBride, Tim Blake Nelson cast in James Franco's As I Lay Dying film adaptation Reading Rainbow's LeVar Burton talks about the decline of print and the digital age Celebrating 50 years of the Norton ... Read More »
August 28, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

Betty Waterton, celebrated children's author and illustrator, passed away on Aug. 7, according to a press release from her publisher, Fitzhenry & Whiteside. She was 88 years old. The author of nearly 20 children's books, ... Read More »
August 27, 2012 | Filed under: Authors

Great adventures and dystopian settings dominate this week's bestsellers list with The Hunger Games and Divergent series taking the top spots. For the two weeks ending Aug. 19: 1. Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic, $19.99 cl, ... Read More »
August 27, 2012 | Filed under: Bestsellers

The shortlist for the 2012 Toronto Book Awards has been announced. The annual awards, established by the Toronto City Council in 1974, recognize authors who evoke Toronto in works of literary and artistic merit. The ... Read More »
August 27, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

What are the odds of a Torontonian winning the Nobel Prize in Literature? Paid book reviewers meet demands for online raves Chicken Soup for the Soul to launch food line to accompany self-help books Popular ... Read More »
August 27, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

U.S. sci-fi writer Kevin J. Anderson has published 115 books, including spin-off novels for popular series like Star Wars, The X-Files, and Dune. Since 1993, 47 of his novels have appeared on bestseller lists. Anderson ... Read More »
August 24, 2012 | Filed under: Authors