Ballantine Communications Launches Dorado Magazine

Ballantine Communications has launched a new luxury lifestyle magazine called Dorado. It is targeted at residents in the Southwest U.S. February 10, 2015

Oprah's New Book Club Pick is Ruby by Cynthia Bond

Oprah Winfrey is super excited about her first book pick in a year. Her choice is the novel Ruby by Cynthia Bond. February 10, 2015

Whole Foods Launches Cereal Boxes Featuring Eric Carle Artwork

Whole Foods Market has partnered with The World of Eric Carle for cereal boxes featuring artwork and games. February 8, 2015

ISIS Ransacking Libraries in Iraq, Destroying Priceless Literary Treasures

ISIS is ransacking libraries, museums and universities in Northern Iraq. All non-Islamic texts are being burned as being blasphemous. The damage is devastating. February 5, 2015

Kalmbach is Launching a Magazine About Drones Called Drone 360

Kalmbach and Discover are launching a magazine about drones, called Drone 360. February 3, 2015

Alec Baldwin Inks Memoir Deal With Harper

Alec Baldwin has signed with Harper to write his memoir which will cover his personal and professional life. February 3, 2015

Newly Discovered Harper Lee Novel to be Published This Summer

Harper Lee wrote a To Kill a Mockingbird sequel, which was lost for decades. It has been found and will be published this summer. February 3, 2015

Sexist, Insulting Obituary of Colleen McCullough Causes Backlash

The Australian's obituary of bestselling novelist Colleen McCollough has infuriated fans, authors and journalists. The obit called her fat and ugly and gets worse from there. February 1, 2015

Robots Writing Over 1,000 Stories Per Month for the Associated Press

Over 1,000 stories per month are being written by computers for the Associated Press. These stories tend by droll financial articles. January 31, 2015

AOL is Closing Joystiq and TUAW

AOL is closing Joystiq and TUAW as part of a reorganization of its many sites. January 30, 2015

George R.R. Martin's Editor Confirms The Winds of Winter Won't Be Published This Year

It's official: The Winds of Winter by George R.R. Martin won't be released in 2015. Martin's editor has no idea when the book will be finished. January 30, 2015

Neil Gaiman and Paulo Coelho Write Essays for Chipotle

Neil Gaiman, Aziz Ansari, Amy Tan and Paulo Coelho wrote new essays which will be read on the side of Chipotle drink cups. Some are funny, some are serious. All are interesting. January 29, 2015

Meredith Buys Shape Magazine

Meredith has acquired Shape magazine from American Media. Fitness magazine will be folded into Shape. January 28, 2015

Sam Smith to Pay Tom Petty Songwriting Royalties for Stay With Me

Sam Smith has agreed to pay songwriting royalties for the hit song Stay With Me January 28, 2015

China Continues Crackdown on Writers: No More Pen Names

Writers in China are now banned from using a pen name, unless they disclose their real name so they can be tracked by the government. Social media is the next target. January 26, 2015

British Court Strikes Down Ban on Sending Books to Prisoners

The British high court has ruled that books must be struck from the list of items that cannot be sent to prisoners. Many authors campaigned for the ban to be overturned. January 24, 2015

E.L. James' Control Over the Fifty Shades of Grey Film Was Unprecedented

Author E.L. James has unprecedented control of the Fifty Shades of Grey movie. That caused quite a bit of friction on the set. January 22, 2015

Facebook to Filter Hoaxes From News Feed

Facebook will be attempting to remove more hoaxes from the news feeds. Facebook says its users don't like them. January 21, 2015

David Duchovny's First Novel to be Published in February

David Duchovny is an author. His first novel, Holy Cow: A Modern Dairy Tale is a fable for adults and children. It will be released in February. January 21, 2015

Pedro Almodovar to Receive WGA Screenwriting Achievement Award

Spanish screenwriter and director Almodovar will receive the WGA's Jean Renoir Screenwriting Achievement Award on Valentine's Day at the WGA Awards. January 21, 2015

James Patterson and the Exploding Book

James Patterson is offering a once in a lifetime experience for a fan: for $294,038 you can fly to an exotic location, watch the novel be donated by a bomb squad. January 20, 2015

National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists

The National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists for the best books of 2014. Toni Morrison will receive a Lifetime Achievement award. January 20, 2015

Images From Illustrated Edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Revealed

Scholastic has released some images from the upcoming illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling January 19, 2015

MySpace Still Gets 50 Million Monthly Visitors

MySpace still gets over 50 million visitors a month. The site also generated 300 million video views in November. January 16, 2015

Boy Who Came Back From Heaven Says He Made it All Up

Tyndale has stopped printing the Boy Who Came Back From Heaven after the author says he made it all up. He was only 6 when his dad co-wrote the book, he is now 17. January 16, 2015