To mark its 40th anniversary, Beanstalk, the national literacy charity, will today publish 16,000 copies of a special book, to be gifted to every child the organisation has helped this year, as well as to their Beanstalk reading helpers and schools for their school...

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced the company will announce year-end earnings for 2013 on Tuesday, June 25th, before the market opens. The company will host an investor...

On Tuesday, June 4, the office of Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz joined the Brooklyn Book Festival, members of the Brooklyn Literary Council and top authors, publishing industry leaders, editors and literary agents to publicly reveal the more than one...

Fueled by a year of strong new releases and even more widespread popularity of e-books, BookStats reports that trade publishing (adult and juvenile fiction and nonfiction, and religion) experienced significant growth in calendar year 2012. While the US book industry...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)/May. 22, 2013—Today, Amazon Publishing announces Kindle Worlds, the first commercial publishing platform that will enable any writer to create fan fiction based on a range of original stories and characters and earn royalties...

BOSTON, MASS/May 22, 2013--The 2013 New England Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual program honoring the best books of the holiday season. The day festival and awards will be held in January, 2014 at the historic Omni Parker House Hotel in...

LONDON/ May 16, 2013-NOOK Media LLC, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller and leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, announced today that leading UK publishers have donated a selection...

  Gütersloh, May 16, 2013—Bertelsmann, the international media company which owns Random House in the US, recorded a positive business performance in the first three months of the year, increasing both its operating result and net profit to record...

NEW YORK, New York/May 15, 2013–-Damon Galgut, the author of such acclaimed novels as In a Strange Room (Europa 2011) and The Good Doctor (2003) – both finalists for the Booker Prize, will be today become an Honorary Foreign Member of The American Academy...

Brooklyn, NY/May 5, 2013--Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz invites Brooklyn high school students to make submissions in the form of a story, a poem, an essay, spoken word or rap for the 8th annual “Brooklyn Lit Match” teen writing contest, a...