July 24, 2013

It’s the anti-summer holiday story. Editorial staff at Lonely Planet, the guide book known as the first and most important book for any traveller, are facing job cuts and redeployment as… Read more »

Publishing

Barnes & Noble takes penultimate step to exiting Queens — Liam O'Brien
Fifth employee connected to Hong Kong bookstore goes missing — Liam O'Brien
After removing its books from Amazon, children’s publisher reports record profits — Kait Howard
Castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga denies eating his companion — Taylor Sperry

Penguin debuts Book Country e-bookstore for self-published authors

Sal Robinson

Authors who want to self-publish just got a new way to sell their books, in an interesting little turn of the screw this week. Since 2011, Penguin has run Book… Read more »

Junot Diaz jokes about Star Wars in annotated Oscar Wao

Kirsten Reach

Using the Poetry Genius section of Rap Genius, author Junot Diaz released an excerpt of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao with his own annotations. He points out references to… Read more »

Kicks Books surging as it recovers from Hurricane Sandy damage

After struggling with serious damage in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, indie publisher Kicks Books has managed to rebound and prosper with its unique brand of paperbacks, Alex Mutter writes… Read more »

The NEA announces new grants for The Big Read

Claire Kelley

The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts that is “designed to revitalize the role of literature in American culture and to encourage citizens to… Read more »

Melville House Books

Lonely Planet lays off editorial staff

Zeljka Marosevic