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Barnes & Noble Launches Audio App and Web Site

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the nation’s largest retail bookseller and a leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced the NOOK Audiobooks App for iPhone and iPad and a new website, NOOKAudiobooks.com, which seamlessly...

Call for submissions: Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute

The Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute is now accepting submissions for its 2016 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Awards.  A winning award is given to a published book that “captures the spirit of the human relationship with nature, and promotes the awareness,...

S&S Acquires Bulk of Stephen King’s Work

In a landmark publishing agreement, Stephen King’s publisher of twenty years Scribner has acquired North American and Open Market print, e-book, and audio rights to almost the entirety of the bestselling author’s body of work. The 27 titles in the agreement include...

James Patterson to receive Literarian Award

The National Book Foundation will present its 2015 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community to literary activist and best-selling novelist James Patterson. For the past decade, Patterson has been a passionate campaigner to make books...

Ira Silverberg to Join Simon & Schuster as Senior Editor

Ira Silverberg will join Simon & Schuster’s adult trade imprint as Senior Editor, it was announced today by Jonathan Karp, Publisher of Simon & Schuster. Silverberg will report to Editor-in-Chief Marysue Rucci. His appointment is effective October 1.  In 2011,...

Brooklyn Book Festival “Top Picks” Announced

The Brooklyn Book Festival’s (BKBF) 10th Anniversary year is in full swing! BKBF brings together hundreds of acclaimed authors for NYC’s hippest event celebrating the written word. The festival welcomes back AT&T as its major sponsor. The city's largest free...