This is page 10 of the book publishing news archives.

News Corp Wants to Buy Simon and Schuster, Combine With HarperCollins (2012-11-22): The consolidation of the major book publishers continues.

Britney Spears to Write Novel For HarperCollins (2012-11-09): The Hollywood Reporter reveals that pop superstar Britney Spears is about to become a published novelist.

Authors Guild Extremely Critical of Penguin Random House Merger (2012-11-05): The Authors Guild is not happy with the prospect of a merger between Penguin and Random House, which it calls "unsettling".

Penguin and Random House Confirm They Are Merging (2012-10-29): The New York Times reports that Random House and Penguin will merge.

Spoiler for Random Penguin Merger: News Corp Wants to Buy Penguin (2012-10-28): The Wall Street Journal reports that there may be a spoiler in the merger talks between Random House and Penguin.

Bowker Report: Self Publishing Trend Shows Robust Growth With Ebooks Dominating (2012-10-27): In its new report on self-publishing trends Bowker reports that the number of self-published books produced each year has increased by 287% since 2006.

Random House and Penguin in Merger Talks (2012-10-25): The Financial Times reports that Pearson (which owns the Financial Times) and Bertelsmann are in talks to merge Random House and Penguin.

Johnny Depp Gets His Own Book Imprint at HarperCollins (2012-10-16): Johnny Depp just got his own book imprint.

Federal Judge Rules Against Authors Guild in Hathitrust-Google Book Scanning Case (2012-10-11): Publishers Weekly reports that the Authors Guild suffered a stinging defeat in the Google scanning/Hathitrust lawsuit.

HarperCollins Launches New Lifestyle Imprint Called HarperWave (2012-10-11): HarperCollins is launching a new imprint called HarperWave, a health, wellness and lifestyle imprint.

The First Chinese Laureate: Mo Yan Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature (2012-10-11): Mo Yan has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Harper Voyager Accepting Unagented Manuscripts For Two Weeks in October (2012-09-12): Writers, fire up your computers.

Federal Judge Approves Settlement in Ebook Price Fixing Case (2012-09-07): The New York Times reports that a federal judge has now approved the ebook price fixing case settlement between the Justice Department and the three settling book publishers.

Amazon Buys 1,000 Dorchester Book Contracts at Auction, Pays Full Back Royalties to Authors (2012-08-31): Amazon Publishing announced that it has purchased more than 1,000 book contracts from Dorchester Publishing.

Self Published Author Colleen Hoover Inks Two Book Deal With Atria (2012-08-12): Self-published author Colleen Hoover just inked a two book deal with Simon and Schuster imprint, Atria Books.

James Patterson Tops Forbes' List of Top Earning Authors (2012-08-10): The prolific James Patterson has topped a new Forbes' list of top earning authors.

HarperCollins Forms New Christian Publishing Division (2012-07-31): HarperCollins announced today that it is launching a new Christian publishing division.

Media Mogul Barry Diller and Producer Scott Rudin in Talks to Start Ebook Business (2012-07-22): Billionaire media mogul Barry Diller is considering getting into the ebook business.

Scholastic Releases Updated Hunger Games Sales Figures (2012-07-20): Scholastic has released updated figures for Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games trilogy.

Pearson Buys Author Solutions for $116 Million (2012-07-19): Pearson announced that it has purchased self-publishing firm Author Solutions, Inc.