Amazon.com, responding to criticism that a text-to-speech feature on its new Kindle book reader helps it sidestep royalty payments, plans to allow the audio function to be disabled. ...

*The former manager of Ol' Dirty Bastard is suing a publishing company over allegedly defamatory comments made about him in the late rapper's biography, reports Allhiphop.com....

In living rooms and libraries, bookstores and over the Internet, readers are coming together to discuss books. It's an old idea that's been popularized anew by Oprah's Book Club, now nearly 2 million strong....

LOS ANGELES, US: Amazon.com Inc, responding to criticism that a text-to-speech feature on its new Kindle book reader helps it sidestep royalty payments, plans to allow the audio function to be disabled....

Shevonne Polastre is a freelance Technical Writer who assists companies and non-profits. She authors FreeAgentWriter , a blog about the technology world. Online self-publishing services have given users the tools they need to create, publish and promote their work. These sites allow authors to bypass the process of finding an agent and pitching to publishing houses, a venture that can ......

Yume-Hotaru's first novel was a best-seller in Japanese bookstores, and he wrote it entirely with his thumbs....

Yume-Hotaru's first novel was a best-seller in Japanese bookstores, and he wrote it entirely with his thumbs....

Mohammed Khalaf Al Mazrouei, Director General of the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH) announced that major publishing houses from more than 50 countries from around the world will be participating in the next session of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair....

Until now, the only way to mix your microblog and Creative Commons licenses was to sign up for the free-as-in-speech service identi.ca (or run your own instance of Laconica), which requires all posts to be under our Attribution license. But as of February 18th, thanks to the work of UK author Andy Clarke, you can [...]...

The publishing industry is led by experienced professionals with deep knowledge of literary appeal. So if they say Kathy Griffin deserves a $2 million book deal, who are you, the public, to argue?... ...