American best-selling horror novelist Stephen King testified on Aug. 2 in an anti-trust trial to block the $2.2 billion merger of the two biggest book publishers in the United States. … Read more
Amazon announced on Thursday the closing of the Kindle e-bookstore in China next year amid retreats of U.S. tech giants from the market. According to Amazon, it had just stopped … Read more
Fiji-based authors published adventure series for children that talked about critical ocean themes from sea-level rises and pollution to ocean acidification and deforestation to inspire the children of the Pacific … Read more
A Dutch publishing house has apologized for a new book that claimed to identify a Jewish notary as the prime suspect for the betrayal of Anne Frank and her family … Read more
United States federal agents arrested on Jan. 5 a suspect in a years-long scheme in which he impersonated figures from the publishing industry to steal unpublished book manuscripts. Authorities arrested … Read more
The United States Justice Department sued Penguin Random House on Nov. 2 to stop it from purchasing rival publisher Simon & Schuster, arguing that the merge “would likely harm competition … Read more
Frances Haugen, the Facebook Whistleblower who leaked tens of thousands of pages of company documents to the U.S. authorities and the press has secured a book deal. Little, Brown & … Read more
Acclaimed author and activist Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, died on Dec. 15 at the age of 69. “The family of Gloria Jean Watkins … Read more
Acclaimed Irish novelist Sally Rooney has refused an offer from an Israeli publisher to have her new book translated into Hebrew due to her political stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict. … Read more
German media giant Axel Springer announced on Thursday that it struck a deal to purchase digital media site Politico for more than $1 billion, stepping up its efforts to grow … Read more