MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Oct 11 - Oct 17, 2010 Edition 2010 National Book Awards Finalists Announced New York, NY/ AUTHORLINK NEWS/October 14, 2010--Author Pat Conroy announced the twenty Finalists for the 2010 National Book Award at the Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home in...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Oct 11 - Oct 17, 2010 Edition Book Sales Up 6.9 Percent Year to Date, says AAP New York, NY, October 14, 2010— Publishers’ book sales tracked by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) for the month of August increased 3.4 percent on the prior...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Oct 11 - Oct 17, 2010 Edition Borders Offers Writers eBook Publishing Service ANN ARBOR, Mich./AUTHORLINK NEWS/Oct 15, 2010--Borders today announced that it has teamed with BookBrewer to launch BORDERS - GET PUBLISHED(TM) Powered by BookBrewer. The...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Oct 4 - Oct 10, 2010 Edition Barnes & Noble Launches Self-Publishing Platform, PubIt! NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/ October 4, 2010--Barnes & Noble, Inc. today launched PubIt! (www.PubIt.com), an easy-to-use platform that offers independent...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Oct 4 - Oct 10, 2010 Edition Fall Book Awards Schedule Shaping Up NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/October 4, 2010—Several important book awards are scheduled this fall. Here’s an overview of upcoming events. The American Library Association will...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Oct 4 - Oct 10, 2010 Edition Debbie MacComber to Publish Six Novels With Random House (New York, October 4, 2010)--Debbie Macomber, a #1 bestselling author of women’s fiction, with more than 130 million copies of her novels in print worldwide, will...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Oct 4 - Oct 10, 2010 Edition Peruvian Author Wins Nobel Prize for Literature Peruvian Author Wins Nobel Prize for Literature STOCKHOLM/AUTHORLINK NEWS/October 7, 2010--Mario Vargas Llosa, a 74-year-old Peruvian writer, has been awarded the 2010...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Sept 27 - Oct 3, 2010 Edition Meeting Set for e-books: Libraries at the Tipping Point Authokrlink News/September 27, 2010--ebooks: Libraries at the Tipping Point an online conference that functions just like an in-person conference, will be held by...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Sept 27 - Oct 3, 2010 Edition Texas Appeals Court Considers Proposed Book Ban Dallas, Texas—On Tuesday, September 28, 2010, the author and publisher of the book Bulldozed: “Kelo,” Eminent Domain, and the American Lust for Land will ask a Texas...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Sept 27 - Oct 3, 2010 Edition California Booksellers Unite For Internet Tax The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association, the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association, and the American Booksellers Association have...