Dan Brown's latest book The Lost Symbol is flying off the shelves and Oprah has picked a new book-club book. Things are looking up for the publishing industry, especially since this fall promises books from some of the leading fiction and non-fiction writers working today....

The traditional publishing industry's nightmare may be coming true in Japan: A precious big-name author plans to release a novel directly on Apple's iPad....

Penguin Group chief John Makinson has reinvented the publisher for the digital age - and delivered a healthy bottom line Job: chairman and chief executive, Penguin Group Age: 55 Industry: publishing Turnover: a�1bn Staff: 850 (UK), 3,500 (worldwide) Salary: a�1.43m (including a�655,000 bonus) New entry Penguin reinvented publishing in the 1930s with the invention of the quality paperback . Now its ......

Jane Park, Communications Coordinator for Creative Commons wrote to let me know that Lawrence Lessig has thrown down the gauntlet on behalf of CC against the accusations made by ASCAP. Lessig has challenged Paul Williams, the president and chairman of ASCAP, to a debate. Why? Well, it seems that Mr. Williams is at best uninformed and at worst... um, I think the word is lying about what Creative Commons does. It seems to have started with a tweet from Mike Rugnetta. He got a fund-raising missi...

It's been a rough week for Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis, who has been accused of plagiarism.a� The state's leading newspaper has called on him to end his campaign....

Creative Commons is deeply honored to announce CERN corporate support at the “creator level”. CERN is one of the world’s premier scientific institutions–home of the Large Hadron Collider and birthplace of the web. This donation comes on the occasion of the publication under Creative Commons licenses of the first results of LHC experiments. Dr. Salvatore [...]...

Updated Jul 14, 2010 03:30PM MDT Los Alamos, N.M., is hosting the exhibit "Harry Potter's World: Renaissance Science, Magic and Medicine" through Aug. 9. The exhibit, created by the National Libraries of Medicine and National Institute of Health with support from the American Library Association, includes information on the true history of early science and medicine. From botany to chemistry to ......

a� A new submission model—wherein writers must buy a book if they want their work to be considered for publication—is shaking up the literary world. The publishing industry faces an odd set of supply-demand imbalances. Supply of printed books outstrips demand, which is why remainder tables get piled sky-high, publisher layoffs abound, and author advances have wilted. Supply of writers also ......

President Barack Obama's former publisher has a new job as a literary agent. Abrams Artists Agency said Thursday that Steve Ross is joining the agency, effective Monday. Ross in 2006 released Obama's "The Audacity of Hope" while a publisher in the Crown division of Random House, Inc....

Borders book chain is partnering with a Canadian company to enter the growing e-book market. Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble already have a head start on the small but growing market. Steve Carmody with Michigan Radio reports....