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Library users searching for e-books will soon get to look through a much bigger catalog and help decide what their local branch might carry.
Charla Krupp, a popular author and commentator on fashion and beauty whose best-sellers included "How Not to Look Old" and "How to Never Look Fat Again," has died at age 58.
This year's winners of the top prizes in children's literature were honored for stories of resilience over the most everyday troubles: a boy grounded by his parents, a dog that loses its favorite toy.
Novelist Jeffrey Eugenides, science-technology writer James Gleick and the late historian Manning Marable were among the nominees announced for the National Book Critics Circle awards
Burt Bacharach will be handling the words for his next project: a memoir.
Jill Biden, after years of teaching English to college and high school students, has written a book of her own.
Cancer weakened but did not soften Christopher Hitchens. He did not repent or forgive or ask for pity. As if granted diplomatic immunity, his mind's eye looked plainly upon the attack and counterattack of disease and treatments that robbed him of his hair, his stamina, his speaking voice and eventually his life.
Diana Joy Colbert, the wife of author Charles Bock whose battle with leukemia inspired widespread sympathy and support among the New York literary community, died Thursday. She was 41.
The publisher of a novel about Edgar Allan Poe's child bride defended the book against allegations that its author, Lenore Hart, lifted material from another work about Poe's young wife.
At age 91, Ray Bradbury is making peace with the future he helped predict.
Ruth Stone, an award-winning poet for whom tragedy halted, then inspired a career that started in middle age and thrived late in life as her sharp insights into love, death and nature received ever-growing acclaim, has died in Vermont. She was 96.
In a Nov. 21 story about digital book security, The Associated Press erroneously reported on the publishers involved in Amazon.com's Prime lending program, which allows members to rent one book a month from a selection of titles. Books from Penguin Group (USA) are not included.
The National Book Awards ceremony, held just blocks from the Occupy Wall Street protests, was a gilded tribute to the 99 percent.
Here's an unusual way to boost sales: Have the publisher withdraw a novel because it contained passages lifted from other authors.
On a night he was honored for his way with words, Keith Richards was clearly winging it.
A debut spy novel, Q.R. Markham's "Assassin of Secrets," was pulled Tuesday after its publisher said it discovered that numerous passages had allegedly been taken from other sources.
Robert A. Caro's quest to narrate the life of Lyndon Johnson, and document how Johnson handled and created political power, has lasted longer than LBJ's time in government.
The Wall Street Journal has an agreement with Nielsen BookScan to publish best-seller lists that include both physical books and e-sales.
Fifty years after the publication of "Catch-22," author Joseph Heller is long dead and his editor has finally gotten around to re-reading it.
This year's National Book Awards have become a story of embarrassment a month before the winners are to be announced.
Manning Marable didn't live to hear the praise, or respond to the controversy.
After stops in the ancient worlds of Egypt and Greece, Rick Riordan's ever-traveling mind has booked a flight North.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican and tea party favorite seen as a rising political star, said Monday that he will be writing a memoir.
For Bill Clinton, it is again the economy, stupid.
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