China's Communist government yesterday pledged to end the monopoly held by state publishing houses by allowing private companies to produce books legally for the first time in more than half a century....

China's Communist government has promised to dilute the state publishing houses' monopoly by allowing private companies to produce books for the first time in more than half a century....

If you see groups of people touring the Auburn Public Library or crowding bookstores this week, don't be alarmed. It's a bookworm's convention....

Authors fear the publishing industry could be crippled by the growth of online book piracy websites....

Aimee Strittmatter has been named the new Executive Director of the Association of Library Services for Children (ALSC) a division of the American Library Association....

The Library of Congress has released a report outlining the legal status of early sound recordings held by libraries and archives. The 85-page report outlines the overlapping state and federal laws governing sound recordings made prior to 1972 and the steps that libraries and archives should consider in attempting to preserve and disseminate these recordings. The legal issues are so complex that librarians would be judicious to give attention to this helpful report. ...

The e is italic and lower-case. It hovers over the shallow vee of an open book, as if floating up off the middle pages. Smaller than a thumbnail, this icon appears with 19 titles in the spring 2009 University of Wisconsin Press catalog. It represents the availability of a title in digital ebook format. It also signifies the opportunities the UW Press is pursuing amid the contractions and growing ......

Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company, is delighted to announce the acquisition of world rights to a picture book written by actress Holly Robinson Peete and her eleven-year-old daughter Ryan Elizabeth Peete. "My Brother Charlie," to be illustrated by Shane W....

E-commerce sales at Borders Group Inc. reached $26.4 million in the fourth quarter, equaling 2.4% of Borders' total Q4 sales of $1.08 billion. Because Borders took over operation of its web site last year from Amazon.com Inc., the company did not report Q4 e-commerce sales from the year earlier....

B.C.-based publishing houses watching closely as Amazon, Sony and Google shape the rapidly emerging digital book marketplace......