Reuters - Amazon.com said its best-selling Kindle device was currently out of stock, leading one Internet analyst to surmise the online retailer was poised to launch a new version....

The leading e-commerce site and the leading social network just shook hands on a tie-up that could lead to social shopping. Amazon.com launched a new beta feature Tuesday that lets shoppers connect their Amazon and Facebook accounts. The feature serves up gift recommendations for users and their friends based on the information stored in Facebook profiles....

Wylie Agency's deal to bypass conventional publishers for digital sales is sending shockwaves around the industry Fear and loathing among the movers and shakers of America's publishing industry reached new heights late last night with both Random House and Macmillan denouncing top literary agent Andrew Wylie's move into digital publishing. Home to 700 authors and estates, from Philip Roth to ......

Two publishing industry titans smashed into each other last week, and it couldn't have come sooner. Basically, Random House has been screwing authors by......

The iPhone ecosystem, which Apple protects with the ferocity of a Smoke Monster, is about to get wilder. And we have the Library of Congress anda�the Electronic Frontier Foundationa�to thank for it....

The Authors Guild Gave a Mixed Reponse to Wylie Agency's Exclusive E-Book Agreement with Amazon.com...

The blockbuster novelist Janet Evanovich has taken her scrappy bounty-hunter heroine Stephanie Plum to Random House, leaving her longtime publisher, St. Martin's Press, after more than two months of contract negotiations fell through. ...

Stories about sober, upstanding Dutch trading clerks on assignment in Tokugawa-era Japan aren't exactly trendy in the publishing industry ... but that didn't stop David Mitchell. Critic Michael Schaub finds Mitchell's latest novel so inventive and complex that he expects it to easily qualify as one of the best books of 2010....

NEW YORK - A LITERARY agency's decision to publish e-editions of 'Lolita,' 'Invisible Man' and other classics and sell them exclusively through Amazon.com received a mixed response from the Authors Guild, which represents thousands of published writers. In an e-mail sent on Monday to authors, the Guild defended the Wylie Agency's right to sell e-books of older works without the publisher's ......

A literary agency's decision to publish e-editions of "Lolita,""Invisible Man" and other classics and sell them exclusively through Amazon.com received a mixed response from the Authors Guild, which represents thousands of published writers. In an e-mail sent... Amazon.com - Publishing - Authors Guild - Business - Publishing and Printing...