News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Miramax Faces Lawsuit for Mr. Holmes movie. (GalleyCat) The Conan Doyle estate is suing the film company as well as Mitch Cullin (the author… Read more »
Tag: author obituaries

News & Notes – 5/09/15
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Over 100 stories & letters by Mark Twain uncovered by scholars. They were written while Twain was a journalist in San Francisco. (To clarify,… Read more »

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015)
Much sadness. The BBC reported this morning that Terry Pratchett, beloved author of the Discworld novels, has died. His official Twitter account announced his death with a series of emails: (ETA: The character Death speaks in all caps in the Discworld novels. Also, I am not sure but I suspect… Read more »

News & Notes – 2/28/15
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News The 2014 Nebula Award nominees were announced on Feb 20. (SFWA) You can see the entire list here. Hitler’s Mein Kampf returns to Germany… Read more »

News & Notes – 2/21/15
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Princeton alum bequeaths rare book collection worth $300 million to the university. The collection includes Shakespeare folios and a Gutenberg Bible, along with music… Read more »

News & Notes – 1/31/15
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News The Andersons Make Bid to Buy Books-a-Million (Publishers Weekly), but the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC is investigating to see if… Read more »

News & Notes – 9/20/14
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. I had a spectacularly busy week on the non-blogging front, so this week’s News & Notes is a little sparse,… Read more »

News & Notes – 8/02/14
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: News Corp, HarperCollins Complete Purchase of Harlequin. Harlequin will operate as a subsidiary of… Read more »

News & Notes – 7/05/14
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: “Please Look After This Bear. Thank You.” BookBench painted by artist Michelle Heron. Situated… Read more »

News & Notes – 6/28/14
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. I had to skip News & Notes last week because I was out of town with very limited Internet, so… Read more »































