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...
The text of Congressman Charles B. Rangel's proclamation honoring Tor Books Publisher Tom Doherty, as presented the this year's Nebula Awards Banquet...
Bertelsmann, just after taking control of Bookspan, is cutting about 15% of its workforce and closing or merging many clubs. The Science Fiction Book Club is...
New small-press publisher Paper Golem will be publishing its first book Prime Codex, to coincide with Balticon 41 at the end of the month. Prime Codex is the result of...
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller are two of the authors directly affected by the closure of Meisha Merlin. They're offering copies of their Meisha Merlin titles directly, have seen two projects...
Neil Clarke is closing down Clarkesworld Books, in part because he and his wife lost a baby in early March. He will, however, continue publishing Clarkesworld Magazine, and is launching a new...
Debuting with Wired in July, Dorchester's new Shomi imprint will bring a manga feel to speculative romance. Inspired by manga, but focusing on the prose, the first three books...
Bertelsmann is buying TimeWarner's half of their joint Bookspan venture, bringing pretty much all of the Book Clubs under the BMG Columbia House unit. Bertelsmann paid an estimated...
