David Harsent Wins 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

David Harsent has won the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry for his new collection, Fire Songs. January 16, 2015

Wes Anderson and Dan Gilroy Nominated for Screenwriting Oscars

Wes Anderson, Dan Gilroy, Alejandro Gonzalez inarritu and Jason Hall get Oscar nominations. Gillian Flynn snubbed for Gone Girl adaptation. January 15, 2015

CNN Gets FAA Approval to Test Drones for News Gathering

CNN has announced it worked out a deal with the Federal Aviation Administration so it can test drones for news gathering purposes. January 14, 2015

Facebook Adds AMBER Alerts

Facebook has announced it will be adding AMBER Alerts through a partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. January 13, 2015

Birdman Wins Best Screenplay at the 2015 Golden Globes

Birdman won the award for Best Screenplay at the 2015 Golden Globes. The film's star Michael Keaton also won a Globe. January 13, 2015

Inside a Charlie Hebdo Editorial Meeting

In this clip we get to see inside a Charlie Hebdo editorial meeting. It shows cartoonists choosing which art to use for the cover of the issue about the Danish Mohammed cartoons. January 10, 2015

Star Wars Returns to Marvel With Release of New Star Wars Comic Series

The original Star Wars characters will star in the new Star Wars comic which will be released by Marvel. The first issue is expected to sell one million copies. January 9, 2015

French Novelist Michel Houellebecq Cancels Publicity Tour Due to Terrorist Threats

French novelist Michel Houellebecq, author of Submission, has cancelled all publicity in light of terrorist threats. His publisher is being guarded by police. January 9, 2015

LinkedIn Wants More of Its Members Blogging

LinkedIn wants more of its members to blog and create content. January 8, 2015

Study: Reading to Children Past Toddlerhood Increases Child's Love of Reading

The new Scholastic report about children and reading finds that reading to kids long after toddlerhood increases a child's love of reading. January 8, 2015

Guardians of the Galaxy Gets WGA Nomination

The WGA nominations are in and Guardians of the Galaxy's Nicole Perlman and James Gunn are in the mix. Game of Thrones, True Detective and House of Cards also got nominations. January 8, 2015

12 Killed in Attack at Paris Office of Charlie Hebdo

12 people have been killed in an attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The attack occured at the magazine's office in Paris. January 7, 2015

Patricia Smith Wins Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry

Patricia Smith has won the 2014 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for her book, Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah. January 7, 2015

Nicholas Sparks Separates From Wife After 25 Years

Nicholas Sparks and Wife Cathy separate after 25 years of marriage. January 6, 2015

Hearst Planning New Print Magazine Launch in 2016

Hearst is planning to launch a new print magazine early next year according to AdAge. January 5, 2015

HarperCollins UK Apologizes for Eliminating Israel from Global Atlas

HarperCollins UK has apologized for leaving out Israel from the atlas of the middle east. The publisher said locals didn't want Israel listed on the maps. January 4, 2015

Weight Watchers Relaunches Print Magazine

Weight Watchers has relaunched its print magazine with a new look starting with the January/February 2015 issue. January 3, 2015

Mark Zuckerberg Starts World's Biggest Book Club

Mark Zuckerberg has started an online book club called A Year of Books. You better be a fast reader: he's reading one book every other week. January 3, 2015

Thomas Piketty Refuses France's Legion d'Honneur

Economist and bestselling author Thomas Piketty refuses his country's honor. He will not accept France's Legion d'Honneur. January 3, 2015

Dick Van Dyke Inks Deal for Book on Aging

Dick Van Dyke inks deal with Weinstein Books for book on aging. The book will be released on his 90th birthday. January 2, 2015

Senate Torture Report Sells Out in a Day, Melville to Print More

The Senate Torture Report published by Melville House sells out in a day. The indie publisher will go back to press for another run. January 1, 2015

Bebo Returns as a Messaging App

Bebo is back as a messaging app for iOS and Android December 30, 2014

Dr. Dobb's to Cease Publishing

Dr. Dobb's will cease publishing content on drdobbs.com at the end of 2014 December 29, 2014

Barnes and Noble Buys Back Pearson's Stake in Nook Media

Barnes and Noble will own 100% of its Nook business after buying out Pearson's stake in the ebook reader business. December 29, 2014

Authors See Income Dive After Joining Kindle Unlimited

Many authors are seeing big income drops after joining Amazon's ebook subscription service Kindle Unlimited. They did better just selling the titles individually. December 29, 2014