Ember Island Kimberly Freeman Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . . good addition to anyone's must read list." Nina Jones owns the house on Ember Island once occupied by her great-grandmother. The house, an abandoned whale watching business, was in need...
The National Book Awards Ceremony for 2014 was held November 19 at Cipriani Wall Street Wall Street in New York City. Here are this year’s winners. For complete coverage, see http://www.nationalbook.org/. WINNER: Phil Klay, Redeployment (The Penguin Press/ Penguin...
The 2015 Great Southwest Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual competition honoring the best books of the late winter/spring season. The Great Southwest Book Festival will consider published and unpublished works in fiction, non-fiction,...
Simon & Schuster announced today that, effective immediately, ebooks from its catalog would be made available to libraries nationwide irrespective of whether or not the library participates in the publisher’s “Buy It Now” merchandising program. By lifting the...
The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) announced today that it has received a $40,000 grant from the Reba and Dave Williams Foundation for Literature and the Arts. The grant, which honors SIBA’s 40 years of support for Southern independent bookstores,...
The American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) is happy to once again accept submissions for the Annual Writing Awards, honoring the outstanding nonfiction work produced on a freelance basis during the prior calendar year. ASJA is the professional association...
The 2014 London Book Festival regular registration deadline arrives Nov. 25 for its annual awards honoring the best of international publishing. The 2014 London Book Festival will consider books in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Italian in the...
The 2014 New England Book Festival regular registration deadline arrives Nov. 25 for its annual program honoring the best books of the holiday season. The competition will accept entries in non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children's books, young adult,...
Gruner + Jahr AG & Co. KG, which has been wholly owned by Bertelsmann since November 1, 2014, is planning a change of legal form to GmbH & Co. KG. A resolution to this effect is to be adopted later this year at the Annual Meeting of Gruner + Jahr. The move was...
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) today announced the company will report fiscal 2015 second quarter earnings results onThursday, December 4, 2014, before the market opens. The company will host an investor conference call at 10:00 AM Eastern Time on Thursday,...
