Books
| Tor offering free e-books by two World Fantasy Award finalists | |||
| News > Books | September 18, 2008 | ||
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Tor Books is offering, for a limited time, free e-books by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly. Bull's Territory and Shetterly's The Gospel of the Knife are both finalists for the World Fantasy Award...
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| LucasBooks and Del Rey renew licensing agreement through 2013 | |||
| News > Publishers | September 16, 2008 | ||
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LucasBooks and Del Rey have extended their 30+ year agreement for another five years, which should see the publication of 35 more novels...
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| Tor.com continues offering free fiction; plans to resume free e-books | |||
| News > Publishers | September 12, 2008 | ||
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Tor.com expects to resume giving away free e-books, but only to registered users. Currently, a free story by Elizabeth Bear is available, with a Terry Bisson story in the works...
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| Cory Doctorow's first essay collection available for free and to donate | |||
| News > Books | September 10, 2008 | ||
 Tachyon Books is publishing Cory Doctorow's essay collection Content. As with most Doctorow titles, the electronic version is available for free. He's also set up a donation program to get the book to libraries in need...
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| Kim Deitch to launch Pictorama with presentation at The Strand | |||
| News > Activities | September 10, 2008 | ||
 Kim Deitch's newest book, a collaboration with his siblings, will be the subject of his Power Point presentation at New York City's The Strand on 18 September. The event will also be webcast...
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| Court rules for J.K. Rowling against Steven Vander Ark's Harry Potter Lexicon | |
| News > Books | September 9, 2008 |
| J.K. Rowling prevailed in her suit against fan web site-turned-book to be Harry Potter Lexicon, stopping publication of the largely derivative reference book... | |
| Stephen Hunt's The Rise of the Iron Moon moved to February publication | |||
| News > Books | September 9, 2008 | ||
 The sequel to The Kingdom Beyond the Waves will be published in hardcover in February. Waves, the sequel to The Court of the Air, was just re-released in paperback. And author Stephen Hunt has something to say about the new book...
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| Audible's Frontiers's September offerings start with a nod to True Blood, debuting this weekend | |||
| News > Books | September 5, 2008 | ||
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Audible.com's sf imprint Frontiers is honoring the launch of HBO's new series True Blood by making series creator Charlaine Harris is Guest Editor for the month...
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| HarperCollins giving away Neil Gaiman and Fiona McIntosh novels as ebooks | |
| News > Books | September 4, 2008 |
  Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere and Fiona McIntosh's Odalisque are both available in a variety of formats for a limited time...
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| Name your favorite first contact story for Marty Halpern's new anthology | |||
| News > Contests | September 3, 2008 | ||
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Editor Marty Halpern is gathering suggestions for a reprint anthology of first contact stories, and offering prizes to readers for suggestions...
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| Readers of Spanish language Plague Year can win a week in Aspen | |||
| News > Books | September 2, 2008 | ||
 Jeff Carlson's Spanish publisher, Minotauro, is running a massive support campaign for their edition of his first novel, including contests with huge prizes...
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| PS Publishing updates books schedule, Postscripts format | |||
| News > Magazines | August 29, 2008 | ||
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PS Publishing is considering increasing the size of quarterly magazine Postscripts and redesignating it an anthology...
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| Lee & Miller's 2008 Yule chapbook announced | |||
| News > Books | August 27, 2008 | ||
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Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's 14th Yule chapbook will contain two original Liaden Universe stories, and is now available for pre-order...
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| Jeffrey A. Carver giving away volumes 1-3 of "The Chaos Chronicles" to prepare for number 4 | |
| News > Books | August 25, 2008 |
 Presaging the publication of Sunborn, the fourth in Jeffrey A. Carver's "The Chaos Chronicles," he's offering the first three volumes as free ebook downloads...
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| The Deadbooks debuts as "the next step in the evolution of the novel" | |||
| News > Books | August 20, 2008 | ||
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Creator Hasso Wuerslin announces the launch of The Deadbooks, and seems intent on issuing a manifesto that this is a new form of entertainment, the new version of the novel...
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| Harry Potter, Bolt, and Twilight do a three-part scheduling dance | |
| News > Film & Television | August 19, 2008 |
| The film version of the sixth Harry Potter novel is moving from November to next July, so Disney's Bolt and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight film are moving up to take its spot... | |
| Audible's Frontier's August Offerings, including Fafhrd | |||
| News > Books | August 15, 2008 | ||
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Audible.com's sf imprint Frontiers is releasing all seven of Fritz Leiber's "Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser" stories with introductions by Neil Gaiman, as well as a host of other new and classic titles...
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| Dorling Kindersley plans two big comic retrospectives | |||
| News > Books | August 13, 2008 | ||
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Dorling Kindersley will be releasing coffee table books covering DC's Vertigo line and the entire Marvel Universe...
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| L. Ron Hubbard's pulp fiction available as paper or audio | |||
| News > Books | August 6, 2008 | ||
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Galaxy Press will be publishing all of L. Ron Hubbard's pulp fiction as both paperback books and audiobooks (filling out the shorter books with short stories)...
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| Stephenie Meyer's Breaking Dawn a publishing phenomenon its first day | |||
| News > Books | August 5, 2008 | ||
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The fourth and concluding volume of Stephenie Meyer's YA vampire love story, Twilight, hit the stores to massive first-day sales...
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| Electric Velocipede cancels Lavie Tidhar chapbook | |||
| News > Books | August 4, 2008 | ||
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Lavie Tidhar's chapbook, Fortean Signs of Rain, which John Klima had expected to publish this Fall, has been cancelled
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| J.K. Rowling's previously unavailable The Tales of Beedle the Bard to be widely published | |
| News > Books | August 1, 2008 |
| J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard, which until now has only existed in seven hand-written copies, will be published by Bloomsburg, Scholastic, and Amazon.com, as a charitable project to benefit... | |
| Judith Moffett concludes Holy Ground Trilogy after 16-year hiatus | |
| News > Books | July 31, 2008 |
| The first two books in Judith Moffett's Holy Ground Trilogy, about the Hefn invasion that saves Earth from human abuse, were published in 1991 and 1992... | |
| WotC cancelling all non-Magic, non-D&D publishing | |
| News > Publishers | July 31, 2008 |
| Wizards of the Coast is canceling its new Discoveries publishing line, and "refocusing" their efforts on Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons... | |
| Clarkesworld still staffing up, but chapbooks now appearing | |||
| News > Magazines | July 29, 2008 | ||
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Neil Clarke is taking longer than expected to replace editor Nick Mamatas, but for good reasons. On the other hand, his planned chapbook reprints of the online 'zine are now reality...
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