Mommas Gone City Blogger Jessica Shyba Lands Two Book Deal With Macmillan

Jessica Shyba, who writes the Momma's Gone City blog, inked a two book deal with Feiwel & Friends. The book came out of cute photos she posted of her son and his puppy napping. December 28, 2013

Shia LaBeouf Facing Possible Legal Action for Plagiarism

Shia LaBeouf is facing possible legal action from several parties over multiple allegations of plagiarism. December 27, 2013

Author and Screenwriter Ned Vizzini Dead at 32

Author and screenwriter Ned Vizzini has died of an apparent suicide at the age of 32. December 20, 2013

David Lagercrantz Hired to Pen More Books in Stieg Larsson's Millenium Series

David Lagercrantz has been hired to write more books in Stieg Larsson's Millenium series, which began with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. December 17, 2013

Cary Elwes Writing Book About the Making of The Princess Bride

Cary Elwes is writing a book about the making of the film, The Princess Bride. Cary played Westley in the film. December 12, 2013

New University of Colorado-Ricoh Study Finds Readers Won't Give Up Printed Books

Ricoh and the University of Colorado study finds consumers won't give up on printed books for ebooks. Says 60% of downloaded ebooks are never read. December 9, 2013

Amazon.com Launches Short Story Imprint Called StoryFront

Amazon.com launches new short story imprint called StoryFront. It will publish short works and poetry by emerging and established authors. December 8, 2013

New York Magazine Goes From a Weekly to Biweekly Schedule

New York magazine is the latest casualty in the industry. It's going from a weekly to a biweekly publishing schedule, but no layoffs are expected. December 2, 2013

President Obama and Daughters Sasha and Malia Visit Independent Bookstore for Small Business Saturday

President Obama kept up his family tradition of visiting an independent bookstore on Small Business Saturday. First daughters Malia and Sasha accompanied him on the trip. December 1, 2013

Rare Book of Psalms Sells for $14.16 Million at Auction

A rare 1640 Book of Psalms is now the most expensive printed book: it sold at auction for $14.16 million to a collector. December 1, 2013

Three Unpublished J.D. Salinger Manuscripts Leaked Online

Three J.D. Salinger manuscripts that are only available to scholars at Princeton and UT have been leaked online after a strange Ebay auction. November 30, 2013

Apple Objects to Mega Bill Submitted by Court Ordered Antitrust Monitor

Apple has objected to the massive invoice submitted by the court ordered monitor in the antitrust case. The invoice is for nearly $140k for two weeks' work. November 29, 2013

Buttercupgate: Suzanne Collins Forces Director of Hunger Games to Fire Cat Who Played Buttercup, Part Recast

Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins forced the director to fire the black and white cat cast as Buttercup in the movie. A new more buttery colored cat has now been cast in the role November 27, 2013

E.L. Doctorow's Accepts the 2013 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters

E.L. Doctorow gave an interesting speech about the Internet and free speech as he accepted the 2013 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters November 26, 2013

James McGrath Wins the National Book Award for Fiction

James McGrath won the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction for his novel, The Good Lord Bird November 26, 2013

Oxford Dictionaries Names Selfie the Word of the Year

Selfie is the new word of the year, according to The Oxford Dictionaries. November 19, 2013

Screenwriter and Teacher Syd Field Dies at 77

Syd Field, known as the guru of screenwriting, has died at the age of 77. November 19, 2013

Nobel Prize Winning Author Doris Lessing Dead at 94

Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing has died at the age of 94. November 18, 2013

Derek Jeter Gets His Own Book Imprint at Simon & Schuster

Derek Jeter gets his own book imprint at Simon & Schuster which will publish adult and children's books. Could his retirement from baseball be next? November 16, 2013

Google Wins Big as Judge Rules Against Authors Guild in Decade Long Book Scanning Case

Google is celebrating tonight as Judge Denny Chin rules that the book scanning project constitutes fair use under copyright laws. Authors Guild is devastated, vows to appeal. November 15, 2013

Artie Lange Reads Terrible Reviews of His Bestselling First Book, Too Fat to Fish

Comedian Artie Lange reads awful reviews of his bestselling book, Too Fat to Fish. He promises fans they will hate his next book just as much. November 12, 2013

Spike Lee Discusses His Legacy and How He'd Like to Be Remembered

Filmmaker and screenwriter Spike Lee sat down with Oprah Winfrey to discuss his life and work. Here he reveals that most of all he'd like to be remembered as a storyteller. November 9, 2013

Bestselling Author Michael Palmer Dies at 71

Medical thriller author Dr. Michael Palmer has died at the age of 71. His 20th book will be released in May, 2014. November 9, 2013

Nerdist Industries Launches Nerdist News

Nerdist Industries has announced the launch of Nerdist News. The video news service will be hosted by Jessica Chobot. November 5, 2013

Disney Publishing Announces Zodiac Legacy Novel by Stan Lee

Disney Publishing Worldwide has announced it will publish a book about the Chinese zodiac by Stan Lee. Andie Tong will illustrate the book. November 1, 2013