The book world plans a low-key remembrance of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Most of the works about the events will be reissues and updates of older works, from CBS News' "What We Saw" to Noam Chomsky's word-of-mouth (...)
As the publishing industry wrapped up four days of digital talk at its annual national convention, Amazon.com's Kindle was seen as the clear, if not dominant, player in the growing e-market; Barnes & Noble's Nook was considered a pleasant surprise (...)
NEW YORK (AP): The Google executive credited with helping to inspire the uprising in Egypt has a lucrative book deal.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced Monday that Wael Ghonim's "Revolution 2.0" would come out Jan. 25. The book generated strong (...)
At age 88, author Paula Fox is the settled survivor of a disrupted life.
She was abandoned as an infant, frequently moved through much of her childhood, a teen mother who gave up her daughter for adoption, a witness to the devastation of (...)
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has finally agreed to participate in a book about his life.
Simon & Schuster announced Sunday that Walter Isaacson's "iSteve: The Book of Jobs" will be published in early 2012. Isaacson has been working on the long-rumored (...)
Whether or not Borders survives closing some 200 stores, the "superstore" boom of the past two decades has busted, authors and publishers face a market minus millions of square feet of physical shelf space and communities once crowded with (...)
Dead men were big sellers in 2010, from Stieg Larsson and his Millennium trilogy to Mark Twain and the autobiography he wanted withheld until 100 years after his death.
Among the living, George W. Bush's "Decision Points" became a quick million (...)
The crowd sang happy 175th birthday to Mark Twain before the lights went down at the Clemens Center, then laughed along with the nearest incarnation of the late author and humorist: Hal Holbrook.
The 85-year-old actor once again put on his white (...)
Like the first line of a novel, the idea for a letter could occur to Saul Bellow at any time. The words might have come on a daily walk or during a drive to the grocery store. Perhaps he had just finished a bath, a bubble bath, or awakened in the (...)
Nora Ephron is thinking about algorithms.
She wonders what they are. It's one of those concepts, such as Twitter and heavy metal, that exist only to remind her she has lived too long. Unsure of her own definition, she takes a little nip from that (...)
Former President George W. Bush has written a blockbuster.
Bush's "Decision Points" sold 775,000 copies through its first week of release, Crown Publishers, an imprint of Random House Inc., announced Tuesday. An initial print run of 1.5 million (...)
Push the play button and hear the famous teenager's lament. It is recited in a sly, middle-aged twang, like an adult reading in a grade school classroom, one about to be told that the grown-up world is a nest of phonies.
"I mean I've left schools (...)
Lynn Redgrave, an introspective and independent player in her family's acting dynasty who became a 1960s sensation as the unconventional title character of "Georgy Girl" and later dramatized her troubled past in such one-woman stage performances as (...)