The Man of Steel: The Early Years Junior Novel is now available and includes some new photos from Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel, opening in theaters on June 14 In the film, a young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover [...]
Double Fine appears to have gotten its Brütal Legend IP rights from the lawyers of both EA and Activision,. Now it is self-publishing a PC version of the metal-themed action/RTS game on February 26. Pre-ordering before that date gets you the game for $14.99, $5 off the normal price (a Soundtrack Edition is also available [...]
The US Department of Justice has settled with publisher Macmillan in a long-running e-book price-fixing lawsuit, says AllThingsD. “Under the proposed settlement agreement, Macmillan will immediately lift restrictions it has imposed on discounting and other promotions by e-book retailers and will be prohibited until December 2014 from entering into new agreements with similar restrictions,” a [...]
A new book by the founder of Apple’s first “in-house” design contractor, frog design, brings back memorable photos of many early Apple prototypes, including a (corded) phone with an LCD display that could also send email, a stylus-driven tablet, a dual-flatscreen workstation and a MacBook portable notebook — all designed in the early 80s. German [...]
“Goodnight Moon,” the perennially best-selling children’s classic that has lulled countless toddlers to sleep, is now on sale as an interactive app, HarperCollins said on Thursday. The bedtime story, written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd, was first published in 1947. It has sold more than 60 million copies since then, becoming [...]
World Book Night is coming to the U.S. in 2013 with the help of James Patterson and Ann Patchett. The bestselling authors are serving as honorary chairs for the single-day book giveaway in which half a million books will be distributed for free. That day is planned for April 23, organizers have announced. Included in [...]
Digital marketing firm Odyl, who has been helping big publishers find their audiences on Facebook is now hoping to help the publishers connect in a way that will establish a social channel for book sales. With that in mind, they are introducing Riffle, which you can think of a something like a “Pinterest for books”. [...]
Author Lemony Snicket rose to fame with his chronicles of the misadventures of the Baudalaire orphans in the “Series of Unfortunate Events” books. The story began with the death of the children’s parents in a fire and continued on through several volumes of shady guardians, death threats and terrible misadventures that the children always managed [...]
Penguin and Random House have announced they will merge to become the world’s biggest English-language book publisher – about 25% of all consumer books written in English. This is likely a result of the ever-growing and competing e-book market, though neither admits it. Under the terms, Random House will own 53 percent of Penguin Random [...]
Walt Disney Pictures will make Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, the adaptation of the 1972 children’s book which was put into turnaround by Twentieth Century Fox Film last month. Judith Viorst’s book is described as follows: He could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very [...]
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