Fri, 18 May 2012
People cannot be prosecuted for posting content constitutionally protected for adults on generally-accessible websites, and are not required by law to label such content that they do post, U.S. District Judge Dee Benson held May 17.
Thu, 17 May 2012
Because of the success of their recent Children's Book Week supplement, the San Francisco Book Review and Sacramento Book Review have announced they will include the popular child-reviewed feature every month, beginning with the next issue in June.
Thu, 17 May 2012
By now most people know the story of Stephen Colbert showing his picture book I Am a Pole (And So Can You!) to Maurice Sendak during their January interviews on the Colbert Report. But what was the genesis for the book?
Thu, 17 May 2012
Daniel Nayeri has been appointed to the newly created position of digital editorial director of the HMH Children's Book Group. PW caught up with Nayeri, who is finishing his job as editor at Clarion Books, an HMH imprint, to talk about his new post, which he starts on May 27.
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This week's print issue of PW
This week is (almost) all about audiobooks, plus we talk to authors including Michael Showalter and Peter Lovesay. Plus, we look at the return of Weinstein books.
PW's Week Ahead Podcast, Friday May 11, 2012
This week, we discuss the missive the board of the Association of Authors’ Representatives (AAR) wrote to the US Department of Justice expressing its opposition to a proposed settlement with three publishers over alleged e-book price fixing, as well as the best upcoming books.
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The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit by Emma Thompson, illus. by Eleanor Taylor
BEA Children's Art Auction Preview Live
More than 100 pieces of original children’s art that will be auctioned during BookExpo America are now available for preview online as part of the Annual Children's Art Auction and Reception on the evening of June 6.
Publishing People for Obama to Host Event
Barbara Lowenstein, Roger Cooper, Tom Dunne and Bob Miller have organized a book industry fundraiser for Barack Obama, with 83 publishing executives now at the "host" level ($1,000 or more), in addition to many more donating and buying tickets for the event. Debbie Wasserman Schultz will be the guest speaker.
Espresso Book Machine Agrees with Red Wheel/Weiser
Red Wheel/Weiser, the metaphysical and self-help book publisher, has joined On Demand Books’ growing Espresso Book Machine program (EBM), via arrangement with Lightning Source.
| Guilty Wives | Audio Fiction |
| Killing Lincoln (unabr.) | Audio Nonfiction |
| Serpent's Shadow | Children's Fiction |
| Duckling Gets a Cookie!? | Children's Picture Book |
| Hunger Games | Children's Series & Tie-ins |
| Blue Exorcist, Volume 3 | Graphic Novels |
| Deadlocked: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel | Hardcover Fiction |
| Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson | Hardcover Nonfiction |
| The Lucky One | Mass Market Paper |
| Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy | Trade Paper |
Publishing news from across the Web
The Millions: Could geeking out over a mutually beloved novel surpass even alcohol as the ultimate social ice-breaker?
The Bookseller: Booksellers must address their "toxic" real estate and band together to compete in an "omni-channel marketplace" against some of the richest corporations the world has ever seen, former Borders U.K. chief executive Philip Downer has said. Bookshops, he advised, need to develop personalities because the day of the "general bookshop" was over.
DC Comics publisher defends prequels.
Salon: The maker of the documentary film "Inside Job" has a new book excoriating Wall Street and President Obama.
