Bookstore sales fell 5.1% to $707 million in July, according to a Publishers Weekly report based on data released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Sales were at $745 million in July 2013. The decline was somewhat less than in most months of the year, and sales through July...

The 2015 Paris Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual awards honoring the best of international publishing. The 2015 Paris Book Festival will consider non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children's books, compilations/anthologies, young...

The 2015 Great Northwest Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual competition honoring the best books of the late winter/spring season. The Great Northwest Book Festival will consider published and unpublished works in fiction, non-fiction,...

NOOK Media LLC, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), a leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced that NOOK Press (www.nookpress.com) has partnered with The Bookseller on a new preview section for...

Today, Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams celebrated the return of the ninth annual Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, September 21st to Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza, the main site of the largest free literary event in New York City. The festival annually...

Happy Monday! It's an especially happy one here at Scholastic as we celebrate our two titles included in this year's longlist for the National Book Awards for Young People's Literature:Threatened by Eliot Schrefer andRevolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two by...

Partnership to build on success of last year’s Get London Reading initiativeNOOK to sponsor Best Play accolade at 2014’s Evening Standard Theatre AwardsActress Cush Jumbo to visit a London primary school to promote partnership LONDON – 12th September, 2014, ESI Media...

The Florida Writers Association will present the 13th Annual Florida Writers Conference at the Orlando Marriott Lake Mary from Thursday, October 23 – Sunday, October 26.  The Conference offers workshops, presentations by New York Times bestselling authors, and...

The 2014 Southern California Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual competition honoring the best books of the fall. The Southern California Book Festival will consider published and unpublished works in fiction, non-fiction,...

When not one but two bestselling thrillers are turned into highly anticipated, soon-to-be-released films, it is an opportunity too good to miss. In anticipation of the release of film adaptations of Gillian Flynn’s hit suspense novels Gone Girl and Dark Places, Kobo,...