Techmeme Launches Media Gazer

Techmeme has expanded its offering with a new service tracking the media called Media Gazer. March 25, 2010

Lost Booker Prize Shortlist Announced

The Booker Prize Foundation is going back forty years to award a book published in 1970, a year that never had a Booker Prize winner. March 25, 2010

JFK Library to Display Letter That J.D. Salinger Sent Hemingway

A letter that a young J.D. Salinger sent to Ernest Hemingway is going to be displayed for the public for the very first time. March 25, 2010

Mary Higgins Clark Buys Seat on Chicago Board Options Exchange

Chicago Crain's Business reports that bestselling novelist Mary Higgins Clark bought a seat on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). March 25, 2010

Sleeping Time Tells You When Twitterers Sleep

Sleeping Time is a Twitter tool that determines a Twitter user's sleeping schedule based on when they tweet. March 24, 2010

St. Martin's Press to Publish Jersey Shore Book

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David Almond, Jutta Bauer Win Hans Christian Anderson Awards

David Almond from the United Kingdom has won the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Author Award and Jutta Bauer from Germany has won the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator Award. March 24, 2010

Sherman Alexie's War Dances Wins 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Sherman Alexie's War Dances (Grove Press) has been selected as the winner of the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. March 23, 2010

Fake Character Twitters Written By Freelancers and Screenwriters

As most people are aware a lot of effort goes into creating the fake Twitter accounts and blogs that tie-in with television shows and movies. March 23, 2010

Top Selling Hardcovers of 2009

Publishers Weekly has published a big list of the top selling books of 2009. March 22, 2010

Lori Degman Wins Cheerios New Author Contest

Lori Degman has won the second Cheerios new author contest. March 22, 2010

Katherine Heigl Talks Stephanie Plum Role

Katherine Heigl has a message for Stephanie Plum fans. March 20, 2010

Ian McEwan's Atonement to Become Opera

The BBC reports that an opera version of Ian McEwan's novel Atonement is in the works. March 20, 2010

Scholastic Signs Four Book Deal With Captain Underpants Creator

Scholastic has signed a new four-book deal with Dav Pilkey, author of the bestselling Captain Underpants series. March 18, 2010

John Grisham Ends Ebook Holdout

John Grisham has ended his long holdout on releasing ebook versions of his bestselling novels. March 18, 2010

Borders Plans to Encourage Book Club Gatherings

The Chicago Tribune reports that Borders has a new plan to get readers into its bookstores. March 17, 2010

Senator Scott Brown Lands Deal to Publish Memoirs

HarperCollins has announced the acquisition of a currently untitled memoir by Senator Scott Brown, the United States Senator from Massachusetts. March 10, 2010

What Does Hurt Locker Mean?

Hurt Locker is an Oscar winning movie but what does the term means. Hurt locker is GI slang for a severe injury. March 10, 2010

Books Now Outnumber Games in the iTunes App Store

Apple's iTunes App store is a growing source for content. March 10, 2010

Hilary Duff Lands Deal for Young Adult Fiction Series

Hilary Duff has signed a deal with Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers to publish a young adult fiction series. March 9, 2010

B&N To Test Book Bundles That Include Ebook and Printed Book

Publishers Weekly is reporting that Barnes & Noble is considering a plan to bundle print books and ebooks. March 9, 2010

Precious Wins Two Academy Awards

The film, Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, won two Oscars at the 82nd Academy Awards including Best Adapted Screenplay for Geoffrey Fletcher. March 8, 2010

Geoffrey Fletcher Wins Best Adapted Screenplay

Geoffrey Fletcher stands next to his Oscar backstage during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre. March 8, 2010

Lindsay Lohan Writing Her Memoirs

Lindsay Lohan is writing her memoirs. March 5, 2010

Why People Hate Dave Eggers

The Awl wants to know why so many people hate Dave Eggers. March 5, 2010