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Barnes & Noble Picks Best Books by Big Authors This Fall-2014

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the nation’s largest retail bookseller and the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced the list of must-have books for the Fall and fast-approaching Holiday season. This year’s list...

Pen Names 2014 Bingham Finalists

Last night, on the eve of the 2014 Literary Awards Ceremony, finalists for the 2014 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction gathered in a packed East Village bar to read aloud from their nominated works. You can listen to an audio recording of each reading...

Financial Times Picks Shortlist for Business Book Award–2014

The Financial Times and McKinsey & Company today publish the shortlist for the 2014 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. Now in its tenth year, the award is an essential calendar fixture for authors and the global business community alike...

Survey says Europeans Are Creative-2014

A majority of people in Germany, France and Britain feel they are creative. According to a recent TNS Emnid survey commissioned by the international media company Bertelsmann, 65 percent of French people, 70 percent of Germans and 72 percent of Britons describe...

PW Reports Bookstore Sales Fall July 2014

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...

2015 Paris Book Festival Call for Entries

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...

2015 Great Northwest Book Festival Call for Entries

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 The Great Northwest Book Festival will consider published and unpublished works in fiction, non-fiction,...

BN’s Nook Teams With The Bookseller on Self-Pub Platform-2014

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...

Brooklyn Book Festival Returns-2014

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...

National Book Awards Reveals Longlist for YA Award-2014

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...