HOLLYWOOD/May 09, 2013--The 2013 Southern California Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual competition honoring the best books of the fall. The Southern California Book Festival will consider published and unpublished works in fiction, non-fiction,...

NEW YORK (May 8, 2013) The 2013 New York Book Festival will hold a day festival on Saturday, June 22 at the Radisson Martinique on Broadway hotel for its annual event honoring books that deserve greater recognition from the world's publishing capital. Those...

New York, NY/ May 6, 2013 --Every Child a Reader and the Children’s Book Council are honored to present the 2013 Impact Award to Michele Norris for creatively and significantly advancing our collective mission of instilling a lifelong love of reading in...

Gütersloh, April 29, 2013 – Today, the international media company Bertelsmann, which owns Random House in the US, set the price for the secondary public offering of ordinary shares of RTL Group at €55.50 per ordinary share. The transaction represents...

INDIANAPOLIS/April 29, 2013 — The Society of Professional Journalists gladly recognizes the recipients of the Sigma Delta Chi Awards, which recognize exceptional professional journalism produced in 2012. Judges selected 84 honorees from nearly 1,700 submissions....

The Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) has named Angela Bole as its new executive director, replacing Florrie Binford Kichler, who is retiring in June. Ms. Bole, who currently serves as deputy executive director of the Book Industry Study Group, will...

BOSTON, MASS/April 24, 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...

NEW YORK (April 22, 2013) - Michael Rapoport, The Wall Street Journal’s accounting reporter since 2010, will be the keynote speaker at the 30th annual Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards Tuesday April 30 in New York. The awards, sponsored by the New York...

New York, NY/April 22, 2013--News Corp. has settled a shareholder lawsuit brought in 2011 stemming from claims against its board related to the out-of-control phone hacking scandal and other matters. The $139 million that News Corp. will receive (from insurance...

New Haven, Conn./April 18, 2013--The curriculum for this year’s Yale Publishing Course (YPC) sessions, Leadership Strategies in Magazine & Digital Publishing / July 14 – 19 and Leadership Strategies in Book Publishing / July 21 – 26, concentrates...