The 2014 Great Midwest Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual competition honoring the best books of the winter. The event will held in November, exact date TBD. The Great Midwest Book Festival will consider published and unpublished works in...

The Southern Festival of Books announces a lineup of bestselling and award-winning authors set to headline the 26th Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, Oct. 10-12. The roster includes Ishmael Beah (The Radiance of Tomorrow), Pat Conroy (The Death of Santini: The...

Sarah McGrath, one of the most esteemed editors in publishing, and the current executive editor at Riverhead, has been promoted to editor-in-chief of the Penguin imprint She joined Riverhead in 2006. Among authors whose books she has acquired or edited are Meg...

Romance Writers of America® (RWA), a nonprofit association for romance writers with over 10,000 members worldwide, announced today the release of Novel Engagement™, the first iOS and Android compatible app that will be a comprehensive database and interactive...

Torstar Corporation (TSX:TS.B) announced today that it has received the approval of its Class A shareholders to proceed with the sale of Harlequin Enterprises Limited to 0999531 B.C. Ltd. or another subsidiary of HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. The transaction remains...

Gallery Books has entered into a co-publishing agreement with Omnific Publishing, an independent publisher of romantic fiction.   Under the agreement, which is effective July 7, 2014, the Gallery Books and Pocket Books imprints will co-publish with Omnific a select...

The 2014 Animals, Animals, Animals Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual competition honoring the best stories from the world of dogs, cats, horses, wild beasts, birds, insects, reptiles and other creatures great and small. The Animals, Animals,...

The 2014 New England Book Festival's has issued a call for entries to 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, how-to,...

According to BookStats Volume 4, the industry remained flat in 2013 as compared to 2012, with $27 billion in net revenue. However, e-book and audio book downloads hit an all-time high. New 2013 figures show some notable trends: 2013 defied conventional wisdom...

Simon & Schuster announced today that, following a successful pilot program in more than twenty library systems, it was moving to expand access to its catalog of ebooks to libraries nationwide.   Effective immediately, public libraries across the United States can...