Random House this month [October 2013] is releasing the paperback publication of WE BAND OF ANGELS (Random House, on sale 10/29), now with an all-new chapter about the late Mildred Dalton Manning, the last Angel of Bataan. In its 1999 hardcover publication, WE BAND OF...

2014 San Francisco Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual competition honoring the best books of the spring. The event includes a daytime publishing seminar and book expo, plus evening awards. The 2014 San Francisco Book Festival will consider...

NEW YORK – Megan Twohey wins the October Sidney Award for her five-part series exposing a subculture where parents go online to give their adopted children away to strangers with no oversight from social workers or the courts. Children may find themselves...

The 2014 Paris Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual awards honoring the best of international publishing. The 2014 Paris Book Festival will consider non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children's books, compilations/anthologies,...

The 2014 New York Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual competition honoring books worthy of further attention from the world publishing capital. The 2014 New York Book Festival will consider published, self-published and independent publisher...

Nominations are now being accepted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Two prizes of $5,000 each are given biennially for works of fiction and nonfiction. Cosponsored by the Stanford University Libraries and the William Saroyan Foundation, the...

Simon & Schuster Digital is pleased to announce that, with the recent launch of newly redesigned home pages, it has entered the final phase of a rolling release that updates Simon & Schuster’s domestic and international websites in the United States,...

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 The Great Southeast Book Festival will consider published and unpublished works in fiction, non-fiction,...

Today, the international media company Bertelsmann has launched an accelerated bookbuilding offering to institutional investors of up to two million ordinary shares of RTL Group, which owns Penguin Random House. The offer is the result of not exercising an...