Disney Publishing Worldwide, the umbrella for Disney's children's publishing, is moving most all of its operations to a new office in White Plains, New York, vacating space in lower Manhattan...
Houghton Mifflin sold children's book publisher Kingfisher, which publishes fiction and non-fiction, to the UK's Pan Macmillan. In the US, it will be run by...
In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day, BOOM! Studios is having a sale on Pirate Tales, and because they've decided there's a connection, Ninja Tales...
PS Publishing has announced its list of forthcoming titles through the end of 2008. Authors include Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip Jose Farmer...
An electrical fire at Prometheus Books forced evacuation of the building (there were no injuries), and brought down the Prometheus and Pyr web sites...
Juno Books, which publishes "fantasy with a focus on the female," has just updated its schedule through the end of 2008. This schedule reflects their newest venture: publishing mass market paperbacks. The new schedule is: The Eternal Rose by Gail...
Tor Books will begin producing podcasts during WorldCon. The shows from Japan will be hosted by Tom Doherty and Patrick Nielsen Hayden, and available for downloading...
The full 15-page text of the settlement between Harlan Ellison and Fantagraphics is now available on the latter's web site. The key provisions of the agreement are...
Sourcebooks will be introducing their first fiction titles this September, with a paranormal romance called Hundreds of Years to Reform a Rake, about a ghost and...
The supermarket tabloid (and web site) Weekly World News is being shut down by owner American Media. No reason was given, although there were offers...
Harry Potter Place is now open in New York City, on Mercer Street between Prince and Spring Streets. The festivities there will run through tonight's midnight release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows...
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...
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...
Circlet Press, "the independent publisher of erotic science fiction," has moved and inaugurated a new web site, with articles, essays, and information...
Simon & Schuster executives met with representatives of the Association of Authors' Representatives to clarify their position, that they are willing to negotiate...
Bertelsmann confirms that SFBC is not going out of business, but Senior Editor Ellen Asher is leaving 1 June, and Editor Andrew Wheeler appears to be no longer in the SFBC office...
