Philadelphia Media Network to Cut 37 Newsroom Jobs

The Philadelphia Media Network Inc. February 18, 2012

HarperCollins Acquires Rights to Amanda Knox Memoir

HarperCollins has announced it will publish a memoir by Amanda Knox. February 18, 2012

Trial Date Set in Lawsuit Over Writing Royalties for Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark

Director Julie Taymor's lawsuit against the producers of the Broadway show Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark is going to trial. February 18, 2012

John Wiley and Sons Buys Inscape

John Wiley & Sons announced that it has acquired Inscape Holdings Inc. February 18, 2012

Active Interest Media Acquires Marine Group From Source Interlink

Active Interest Media, Inc. February 16, 2012

Disney Announces One Million Copy First Print Run for Final Artemis Fowl Novel

Disney Publishing's Disney-Hyperion imprint has announced a one-million copy first printing for The Last Guardian, the eighth and final book in the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer. February 16, 2012

R.L. Stine Shares Short Story on Twitter

Author R. February 16, 2012

Wine Publication to Cease Publishing After 35 Years

Min Online reports that the Quarterly Review of Wines is ceasing publication after 35 years. February 15, 2012

Scholastic Announces New Series by Maggie Stiefvater

Scholastic has announced it will publish a new series, The Raven Cycle, by author Maggie Stiefvater. February 15, 2012

Gal Beckerman Wins 2012 Sami Rohr Prize

The Jewish Book Council has announced that Gal Beckerman is the winner of the 2012 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. February 15, 2012

Academy Launches 2012 Nicholl Screenwriting Competition

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has started accepting entries for the 2012 Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. February 15, 2012

Oprah Winfrey Forced to Delete Promotional Nielsen Tweet

Oprah tweeted a self-promotional tweet on Sunday that got her into trouble with the Nielsen ratings people. February 14, 2012

Reader's Digest Sells Weekly Reader to Scholastic

Reader's Digest has sold its educational Weekly Reader brand to Scholastic. February 14, 2012

2012 BAFTA Screenplay Winners Announced

The winners of the 2012 BAFTA Awards have been announced. February 12, 2012

Adam Mars-Jones Wins Hatchet Job of the Year Award

Adam Mars-Jones has won the Hatchet Job of the Year award. February 8, 2012

Charles Dickens' 200th Anniversary Celebrated in London

Charles Dickens was born 200 years ago on February 7, 1812 in Landport, England. February 7, 2012

Facebook Includes Users Who Don't Visit Facebook in Active Users Figure

Facebook claims an enormous amount of monthly active users (845 million peeps) and daily active users (483 million peeps). February 6, 2012

SNL Skit: Newt Gingrich, Moon President Starring Bobby Moynihan and Kristen Wiig

The Cold Open for Saturday Night Live was a skit in which Newt Gingrich (Bobby Moynihan) has left the Earth to become president of the Moon Colony. February 5, 2012

Books-A-Million Won't Stock Books Published by Amazon

Books-A-Million will not be stocking any books published by Amazon. Barnes & Noble is also refusing to stock Amazon published titles. February 5, 2012

The End May Be Near for Dorchester Publishing

Publishers Weekly reports that the end may be near for Dorchester Publishing. February 4, 2012

Hyperion Signs Two-Book Deal With Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick

Hyperion will published two nonfiction books by Deval L. February 2, 2012

Winners of the 2012 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Announced

Claremont Graduate University (CGU) has announced the winners of the 2012 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards. February 2, 2012

Barnes & Noble Won't Stock a Single Book Published by Amazon

Barnes & Noble has decided it will not carry any books published by Amazon. January 31, 2012

Study Finds Inc. 500 Companies Are Blogging Less

A study of the blogging habits of the 2011 Inc. 500 companies found that they are blogging less than last year. January 30, 2012

Jonathan Franzen is Very Concerned About Technology, Ebooks

The Telegraph reports that author Jonathan Franzen is very concerned about the future of printed books. January 30, 2012