2014 Great Southwest Book Festival has issued a call for entries to 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 The Great Southwest Book Festival will consider published and unpublished works in fiction, non-fiction,...
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Libraries to Access Full S&S eBooks Catalogue – 2014
Simon & Schuster, a global leader in general interest publishing, and OverDrive, the premier eBook distributor for libraries, today announced a pilot launch of the Simon & Schuster eBook catalog for select OverDrive partner public libraries in the United...
DCL and MIT Team Up On Reflowable Textbooks – 2014
Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL), an industry leader in organizing, converting and enhancing content into digital formats, announced today at Digital Book World that it is helping The MIT Press convert computer science textbooks into reflowable eBooks, making it...
2014 Great Northwest Book Festival Call for Entries
The 2014 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 The Great Northwest Book Festival will consider published and unpublished works in fiction, non-fiction,...
New England Book Fest Sets Free Day – 2014
The New England Book Festival is holding a FREE and open to the public daytime book fair and publishing seminar on Saturday, January 18, 2014 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Omni Parker House Hotel, 60 School Street in Boston, 02108. The event will be highlighted by our...
Hillman Journalism Prize Submissions Due-2014
The Sidney Hillman Foundation is now accepting entries for the 2014 Hillman Prizes honoring investigative journalism and commentary in the public interest. Winners exemplify sound news judgment, resourcefulness and courage in reporting, skilled storytelling and social...
Time to Register for Houston Writers Conference – 2014
50 Shades Beyond Gray: Color Your Writing, Infuse Your Future, is the theme for the Houston Writers Guild 2014 Conference. The event will be held on Saturday April 12th. Fee is $100 for members and $125 for nonmembers. A pre-conference session with Jane Friedman, and...
Shortlist Announced for New First Military History Book Prize -2014
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation announced today the shortlist of six books in contention for the inaugural Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History. The winner of the $50,000 prize will be announced at a ceremony March 17 at the New-York Historical Society...
2014 Great Southeast Book Festival – Call for Entries
2014 Great Southeast Book Festival has issued a call for entries for its annual competition honoring the best books of the late winter/spring. The Great Southeast Book Festival will consider published and unpublished works in fiction, non-fiction,...
Barnes & Noble Reports Holiday Sales Decline – 2014
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) today reported holiday sales for the nine-week holiday period ending December 28, 2013. The Retail segment, which consists of the Barnes & Noble bookstores and BN.com, had revenues of $1.1 billion, decreasing 6.6% over...
