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 [...]
Zoom: Through the Eyes of Formula 1, the first ever book of photographs taken by the stars of a sport, will be released worldwide later this month. The book contains photographs which were taken by every Formula One driver and team boss and were sold in aid of London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity [...]
Originally slated for January 2013, the third installment in Greg Bear’s series of Halo novels will now drop in March 2013, Tor Books has announced. Entitled Halo: Silentium, the novel wraps up Bear’s Forerunner trilogy, which appropriately details the story of the Forerunners, the mysterious, extinct race that ruled the galaxy thousands of years prior [...]
Jeff Kinney is one of the most popular children’s book authors on the planet. More than 75 million copies of the first six books in his “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series are in print in 41 languages. They just haven’t been available in a digital format. But that’s about to change. The series’ publisher, [...]
He played writer Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and co-wrote liner notes for the documentary of Thompson’s life. Now Johnny Depp is launching a book imprint, called Infinitum Nihil. Planned books include folk singer Woody Guthrie’s novel, House of Earth, and a biography of Bob Dylan from historian Douglas Brinkley
As a result of a possible settlement between the Department of Justice and three publishers involved in a lawsuit regarding e-book price fixing, owners of Kindle e-readers will receive refunds on past e-book purchases. Amazon told Kindle owners on Saturday that they could receive a refund of between $0.30 and $1.32 per book for books [...]
The Humble eBook Bundle features eight works from a league of award-winning authors. Here is the deal: you name your price and receive Pirate Cinema, Pump Six and Other Stories, Zoo City, Invasion: The Secret World Chronicle, Stranger Things Happen, and Magic for Beginners. Customers who beat the average will also receive to other offerings: [...]
Amazon.com has announced that the Hunger Games trilogy has outsold the seven-book Harry Potter series, making Suzanne Collins’ three-part saga the best-selling book series of all time on Amazon.com, taking into consideration print and Kindle book sales combined. All of the books in the Hunger Games and Harry Potter series are available for Kindle owners [...]
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