New York Public Library Receives Book 54 Years After it Was Due

The New York Public Library received an overdue book in the mail: it was overdue by 54 years. The librarian blames it all on that infamous Bookman Seinfeld episode. August 4, 2014

Judge Cote Gives Preliminary Approval to Apple Ebook Settlement

Despite her reservations about some of the terms of the deal, federal judge Denise Cote has given preliminary approval to the Apple ebook settlement. August 2, 2014

Amazon Explains Its Theories of Ebook Pricing and Author Royalties

Amazon.com explains its theories about ebook pricing, its battle with Hachette and calls for increase on author royalties for ebooks. August 1, 2014

Federal Judge May Not Approve Apple's Ebook Settlement

Federal Judge Denise Cote is not happy with the terms of the settlement between Apple and the Department of Justice. July 25, 2014

Daniel Silva Talks The Heist, the Pitfalls of Readers Googling as They Read

Bestselling author Daniel Silva talks about his new Gabriel Allon novel, The Heist, the rise in art crime and being thorough with his research. July 20, 2014

HarperCollins to Publish 15 New Stories by the Late Elmore Leonard

HarperCollins will publish 15 new stories by the late crime writer Elmore Leonard. The stories were found after his death and were written early in his career. July 19, 2014

Weird Al Yankovic Turns Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines into a Rant About Proper Grammar

Weird Al Yankovic does a spoof of Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines. He turns the raunchy anthem into Word Crimes, a hilarious rant on poor grammar and word use. July 15, 2014

Archie Comics is Relaunching Red Circle Comics as Dark Circle Comics

Archie Comics is committing to its superheroes with the relaunch of Red Circle Comics as Dark Circle Comics. The tone will be edgier and more cinematic. July 12, 2014

The Amazon Hachette War: For Authors, It's Personal Now

The Amazon Hachette war escalated this week when Amazon offered 100% royalties to authors. But Hachette and bestelling authors say no deal. July 11, 2014

Burt Reynolds to Publish Memoir in Fall 2015

Burt Reynolds has a new memoir coming out next year. The forward is by Jon Voight. July 10, 2014

National Portrait Gallery Opens Virginia Woolf Exhibit

The National Portrait Gallery is showing a new Virginia Woolf exhibition, with paintings, letters and never before seen photographs of the writer and activist. July 9, 2014

Scarlett Johansson Wins Libel Case Against French Novelist

Scarlett Johansson won her lawsuit against French novelist Gregoire Delacourt on the grounds of defamation of character, but the settlement was small. July 7, 2014

Ehern Kruger Talks Writing Transformers: Age of Extinction

Screenwriter Ehern Kruger discusses writing Transformers: Age of Extinction and hints that Unicron could be coming to the Transformers franchise. July 5, 2014

Kylie and Kendall Jenner's Ghostwriter Maya Sloan Speaks Out

Maya Sloan, the ghostwriter for Kendall and Kylie Jenner's YA dystopian novel, spills the dirt on the collaboration and dealing with all the drama. July 4, 2014

World Book Night to Shut Down For Lack of Funds

World Book Night announced that it is shutting down operations due to insufficient funding. The valuable program gave away 500,000 books in the U.S. in 2014. July 2, 2014

Neil Gaiman's American Gods to be TV Series on Starz

Neil Gaimain's award winning novel American Gods will be a television series on Starz. Bryan Fuller will write the pilot. July 2, 2014

Google to Shut Down Orkut on September 30, 2014

Google has announced that it will close its Orkut social network. The site will close on September 30, 2014. July 1, 2014

Hillary Clinton's New Book, Hard Choices, is Effectively Banned in China

Hillary Clinton's new memoir of her time as Secretary of State, Hard Choices, has been effectively banned in China. No publisher will touch the book which is critical of China. June 30, 2014

Judy Blume to Publish First Book for Adults in Sixteen Years

Judy Blume is writing a novel for adults, her first in 16 years. The drama will explore family, friendship and dealing with tragedy. June 30, 2014

Author Tom Perrotta and Damon Lindelof Talk Adapting The Leftovers into a TV Show

HBO's The Leftovers premieres tonight. Author Tom Perrotta and Damon Lindelof explain the changes they made to adapt the book to a television series. June 29, 2014

Barnes & Noble to Spin Off Nook Business

Barnes & Noble plans to separate its Nook business. The company recently partnered with Samsung to make the devices. June 26, 2014

Daniel Handler to Host the National Book Awards Ceremony

Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, will act as master of ceremonies for the National Book Awards in November. June 26, 2014

Kyle Mills Will Take Over the Bestselling Mitch Rapp Series by the Late Vince Flynn

Vince Flynn's family and his editor announced that author Kyle Mills will take over writing the bestselling Mitch Rapp political thriller series. June 25, 2014

Hachette to Buy Perseus Book Group

Hachette confirmed it is acquiring independent publisher Perseus Book Group, denies the move is to get leverage over Amazon.com. June 25, 2014

Bob Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone Lyrics Sell for More Than $2 Million at Auction

Sotheby's auctions off the original handwritten lyrics to Bob Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone for more than $2 million. The manuscript also has notes and doodles by Dylan. June 24, 2014