The humble board book, with its cardboard-thick pages, gently rounded corners and simple concepts for babies, was once designed to be chewed as much as read.
In 2002, a novel thought to be the first written by an African-American woman became a best seller, praised for its dramatic depiction of Southern life in the mid-1850s through the...
The Penguin Group USA has agreed to pay $75 million to settle accusations of e-book price fixing, the publisher said on Wednesday.“Penguin has reached a comprehensive...
Forty years after being written, an unpublished novel by Pearl S. Buck, the Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, will be released this fall, her publisher said on...
"Southern Cross the Dog," a new novel by Bill Cheng, features the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 as a plot point. Above, a photograph of Greenville, Miss., after the flood.From its...
At the Community Bookstore in Park Slope in Brooklyn last Wednesday, booksellers were happily engaged in an annual parlor game of the publishing industry: guessing which title...
