Kobo, a Rakuten company and leading innovator in the digital reading space, today announced the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize shortlist. The annual award, designed to kick-start the careers of debut authors, will award a $10,000 CAD cash prize to a book in each of three...

Publishing technology startups will be making their pitches to leaders in Venture Capital, Technology, and Publishing organizations at this year’s BookExpo America (BEA) conference. Once again, starting on Wednesday, May 27th, there will be a Startup Alley at BEA,...

PEN American Center today announced the winners for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards. Among the recipients are Eliza Griswold, winner of the prestigious PEN Translation Prize for I Am the Beggar of the World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); Tina Howe, who will receive the...

Furthering its promise to enable booklovers to “Read Anywhere,” Kobo, a Rakuten company and leading innovator in the digital reading space, today announced a new partnership with Global Eagle Entertainment Inc. (“GEE”) (Nasdaq: ENT), a market-leading media and...

Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will honor late New York Times columnist David Carr with the i-3 award for impact, innovation and influence at the annual Mirror Awards ceremony June 11 in New York City. Times executive editor Dean...

For more than ninety years, The New Yorker has been offering a signature mix of reporting and commentary on politics and foreign affairs, popular culture and the arts, and business and technology, as well as humour, cartoons, and fiction. Kobo today announced that the...

It is with great excitement that PEN today announces the shortlists for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards. After much deliberation, this year's judges have narrowed their longlists down to just five titles across awards honoring fiction, nonfiction, biography, essays,...

Vintage Books announced today that its Vintage Shorts imprint will release 31 short story e-Books during the month of May (one each day) to celebrate Short Story Month. Featured selections include short story masters Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus, and Alice Munro;...

PEN American Center announced today that it will honor jailed Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova with the 2015 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award at the annual PEN Literary Gala on May 5, 2015, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York....