Author Lois Lowry Discusses Her Input on the The Giver

Author Lois Lowry and director Phillip Noyce discuss collaborating on the film version of her Newberry award-winning YA novel, The Giver. August 15, 2014

David Letterman is a Finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor

David Letterman joins cartoonist Liza Donnelly and novelist John Kenney as finalists for the 2014 Thurber Prize for American Humor August 14, 2014

Douglas Preston Leads the Charge Against Jeff Bezos, Amazon Blasts Hachette in Response

Douglas Preston got 899 of his author friends to sign an open letter asking readers to email Jeff Bezos, Amazon retaliates by giving out Hachette CEO's email address. August 11, 2014

2014 National Book Festival Poster Created by Bob Staake

The poster for the 2014 National Book Festival has been revealed. The festival takes place on August 30. August 10, 2014

Hachette Will Not Be Acquiring Perseus Book Group

Hachette's proposed acquisition of Perseus Book Group fell apart and the deal is dead. August 9, 2014

Longlist for 2014 Guardian First Book Award Announced

An eclectic group of titles was announced as the longlist for the 2014 Guardian First Book Award, including the reader's choice pick, Things to Make and Break by May-Lan Tan. August 8, 2014

Frozen Screenwriter Jennifer Lee to Adapt A Wrinkle in Time Into a Feature Film

Frozen screenwriter and co-director Jennifer Lee to adapt Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time into a feature film for Disney. August 6, 2014

Tor to Republish George R.R. Martin's The Ice Dragon

George R.R. Martin's children's book, The Ice Dragon, will be released this fall by Tor with all new artwork by Luis Royo. August 5, 2014

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