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Amazon and Simon & Schuster reach multiyear deal

Hillel Italie · October 21, 2014 1:51 am

This photo provided by Scholastic shows the cover of the book, "Minecraft: Essential Handbook." (AP Photo/Scholastic)

Minecraft now publishing sensation

Hillel Italie · September 3, 2014 4:26 pm

Orwell rep accuses Amazon of doublespeak

Hillel Italie · August 14, 2014 5:49 pm

FILE - This Jan. 21, 1969 file photo shows President Richard Nixon at his desk at the White House in Washington. Nixon suffered a stroke in 1994 and died days later at age 81. Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014 marks the 40th anniversary of his resignation. (AP Photo/File)

Nixon’s back! (At least on Twitter)

Hillel Italie · August 7, 2014 5:47 pm

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2008 file photo, author and biographer Robert Allan Caro smiles during an interview in New York. Caro, Stephen King and Nora Roberts are among the hundreds of authors who have added their names to an online letter criticizing Amazon.com for restricting access to works published by Hachette Book Group.(AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, file)

King, Tartt among those backing anti-Amazon letter

Hillel Italie · July 3, 2014 9:47 pm

Starbucks chair co-writing book on military vets

Hillel Italie · June 30, 2014 3:36 pm

Hachette Book Group buys Perseus

Hillel Italie · June 24, 2014 11:18 pm

John Green criticizes Amazon.com in book dispute

Hillel Italie · June 2, 2014 10:17 pm

Publishers, public meet at BookExpo

Hillel Italie · June 1, 2014 4:31 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2014 file photo, actress Lena Dunham attends "Howard Stern's Birthday Bash," presented by SiriusXM, at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York. From Wednesday, May 28, 2014 to Saturday, tens of thousands of publishers, authors, agents and librarians will meet at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York for a convention predominantly organized by whites, spotlighting books predominantly written, edited and published by whites. Tavis Smiley is the only non-white among the 15 scheduled marquee author speakers, who also include Dunham and Anjelica Huston. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, file)

Diversity an issue as book convention opens

Hillel Italie · May 27, 2014 7:44 pm

Membership rises again for indie bookstores

Hillel Italie · May 27, 2014 12:30 pm

Amazon escalates standoff with publisher Hachette

Hillel Italie · May 24, 2014 2:52 am