SFWA's Contracts Committee looked into the boilerplate contract Amazon recently posted for authors wishing to make their books available through the booksellers Kindle system. Their annotation raises many questions and concerns...
Borders Group has secured financing from its largest shareholder, Pershing Square Capital Management, and has also retained J.P. Morgan and Merrill Lynch to investigate other alternatives...
Amazon.com had a very good third quarter, with sales and profits up over the previous quarter and a year ago, but managed to lose money selling a lot of copies of the final Harry Potter...
Retail giant Trans World Entertainment (F.Y.E., Coconuts, Sam Goody, etc.) and wholesaler Bookazine and coming together to put a new Popazine section in all 900 of TWE's stores...
Barnes & Noble's new online book review publication, called simply Review, will post daily reviews, essays, columns, and interviews. SF author Paul Di Filippo is on the staff...
Australia's Angus & Robertson, one of Australia's largest and oldest booksellers, has decided they don't need to do business with smaller publishers, and tried to strongarm them with a spectacularly stupid letter...
J.K. Rowling's seventh and final Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, sold more than 8 million copies in its first 24 hours on the stands...
Night Shade Books is offering a 50% off sale through 29 July on orders of four books or more. All in-stock and forthcoming books are included. Some of the new titles they've just added include...
The Nielsen Company has compiled a large report on the Harry Potter series's impact on the entertainment industry, breaking it down by category and country. We've excerpted the 11-page report here, and provide a link to the complete document...
South Africa's Reader's Paradise Bookstore is promoting fantasy and science fiction books and authors by giving a signed bookplate with every purchase during August and September, and entering every purchasing customer in a raffle for signed books...
In addition to selling Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for just over half of cover price, Amazon.com is now offering pre-ordering customers a $5 gift certificate...
To kick off the actual publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Scholastic is hosting a street fair at their New York City headquarters on 20 July. "Harry Potter Place" will feature entertainment, magicians, wand-making...
