Bertelsmann, which now owns 75% of publisher Penguin Random House, has increased its RTL Group Profit to nearly €700 Million at 2017 nine-month mark
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2017 Longwood University Prize Goes to Chang-rae Lee
Fiction author Chang-rae Lee is already a recipient of numerous literary awards, and he can now add Longwood University’s own Dos Passos Prize for Literature to his list of accomplishments. Lee is the 36th author to receive this recognition, and it is the oldest...
2017 Ernest Gains Award Winner, Ladee Hubbard
Baton Rouge Area FoundationPublished: 08 November 2017 BATON ROUGE, La. – New Orleans writer Ladee Hubbard’s novel, “The Talented Ribkins,” has been named winner of the 2017 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Now in its 11th year, the Gaines Award is a...
OpenStax Textbooks Now Accessible Via Digital Bookstores
HOUSTON -- (Nov. 10, 2017) -- Rice University-based publisher OpenStax announced today that its textbooks are now available through VitalSource and RedShelf, the digital textbook providers for the majority of campus bookstores in the U.S. Colleges and universities...
The Indie Bestseller List
Published Wednesday, November 8, 2017 (for the sales week ended Sunday, November 5, 2017). Based on reporting from many hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States.
ASJA’s New Membership Level Features Mentoring Component
New York, NY — ASJA — The American Society of Journalists and Authors’ (ASJA} newly-created Associate Membership level offers an exciting benefit designed to support the careers of aspiring writers
Library of America Announces New Editorial Director
Library of America, publisher of the award-winning series that has been called “the most important book-publishing project in the nation’s history” (Newsweek) and “the de facto canon of American literature” (New York Times), has hired industry veteran John Kulka as editorial director.
Author, screenwriter Jonathan W. Stokes to visit Dallas
Author and screenwriter Jonathan W. Stokes will visit the Dallas area on Wednesday, November 14 for a launch of the second book in his Goonies-style adventure series for middle grade readers, Addison Cooke and the Tomb of the Khan.
River in Darkness, the Harrowing Story of Escape From North Korea
RIVER IN DARKNESS by Masaji Ishikawa (Biography/Memoir, Shinchosha 978 - 4102900352, and Amazon Crossing in the USA) is the harrowing true story of one man's life in—and subsequent escape from—North Korea, one of the world's most brutal totalitarian regimes. Ishikawa...
Call for Entries: 2018 Saroyan International Writing Prize
Submissions are now being accepted for the 8th William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Given by Stanford University Libraries in partnership with the William Saroyan Foundation, the award recognizes newly published works of fiction and nonfiction with a...
