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The American Library Association announced the top books, videos and audiobooks for children and young adults at its midwinter meeting in Denver on Ja...
In living rooms and libraries, bookstores and over the Internet, readers are coming together to discuss books. It's an old idea that's been popularize...
NewsFactor - Amazon.com is seizing on the popularity of its electronic book reader Kindle to reach a new market. On Friday the online retailer said it... Octuplet Mother Remain Target Of Ethical Debate
The Los Angeles area mother of octuplets is out of the hospital and reportedly weighing her options among many offers from television shows, movie stu... Octuplet Mother Remains Target Of Ethical Debate
The Los Angeles area mother of octuplets is out of the hospital and reportedly weighing her options among many offers from television shows, movie stu...
The Friends of Libraries organization is holding its annual book sale this weekend. Up for grabs are books from $.50. Buyers will be helping raise fun...
Fresh on the heels of the New York Times article focusing on the thriving self-publishing industry, Outskirts Press announces their top 5 authors for... Cornell University Library Expands POD on Amazon
Expanding an ongoing partnership with Amazon.com, Cornell University Library is increasing its print-on-demand (POD) offerings to more than 80,000 tit...
If more book-lovers become book-buyers, perhaps the publishing industry's woes will ease, and the 14% who buy more than 20 books a year will explode n...
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- President Ma Ying-jeou on Wednesday opened the 2009 Taipei International Book Exhibition (TiBE) , the second largest book fair in th...
DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "UK Consumer Publishing Industry Report 2009" report to their offering.......
V-books are not a step ahead for the publishing industry--instead, they seem to be a big, giant step back. ......
Kathleen Horning, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Cooperative Children's Book Center, has won a prestigious honor from the American ...
"A pioneering medical journal has fallen victim to the dramatic and wrenching changes that are overtaking the publishing industry," says a 60-Second S...
I am thinking of calling my next book "The Google Paradox". It will be a self-fulfilling prophesy about Google, authors and the book business. It wi...
"Over the course of the year, e-book sales were up 63.8 percent. It is in these figures that many industry analysts see hope for the publishing indust...
Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc. , the world's largest online retailer, gained 18 percent in Nasdaq trading after sales and profit topped estima...
Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc. , the world's largest online retailer, gained as much as 19 percent in Nasdaq trading after sales and profit to...
The ominous tone being struck in the publishing industry - from newspapers and magazines to fiction and nonfiction books - is one of shrinkage.......
Reuters - Amazon.com Inc posted higher fourth quarter earnings on robust holiday sales, outshining results from other retailers, and forecast first-q...