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,...

This week multi award-winning publisher From You to Me are celebrating award success at the Independent Publisher Book Awards (the IPPYs) which honor the year’s best independently published titles. ‘Bump to Birthday: Pregnancy & First Year Journal’ impressed the...

Applications for the 2015 Oregon Literary Fellowships are due Friday, June 24, 2014. Fellowships are awarded in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama and young readers literature. Fellowships are also offered for independent publishers. There is no charge to apply....

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 The Great Midwest Book Festival will consider published and unpublished works in...

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) today announced the company will report fiscal 2014 fourth quarter and year-end earnings results on Wednesday, June 25, before the market opens. The company will host an investor conference call at 10:00 AM Eastern Time on...

The 2014 London Book Festival has issued a call for entries to 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 competition. The works...

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a global publishing leader, announced today that its backlist eBook titles are now being made available to consumers via the subscription services Oyster and Scribd.  Both services offer flat-rate plans that allow consumers to read an...

The 2014 Halloween Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual program honoring the best books of the season. The Halloween Book Festival (www.halloweenbookfestival.com) will consider works in science fiction, horror, general fiction, non-fiction,...

The Children's Book Council and Every Child a Reader announced the winners of the seventh annual Children's Choice Book Awards (CCBA) at a charity gala benefitting Every Child a Reader in New York City May 19. In the only national book awards program where the winning...

Amazon has begun discouraging customers from buying some books published by Hachette, according to a New York Times article which broke earlier this month (May 8, 2914) . The retailer, which controls more than a third of the U.S. book trade, is apparently delaying...