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Lawsuit: Lohan Didn't Write Book, Kept Advance
Lindsay Lohan accepted a $365,000 advance to write a book but never turned in a word, despite a 2-year extension, according to a lawsuit from HarperCollins. The publisher filed a lawsuit in New York...
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Family Stunned by Scholastic CEO's Will
Scholastic, the world's largest publisher of children's books, was handed down from founder Maurice Robinson to son Richard Robinson in 1975—but when the younger Robinson died suddenly in June at age...
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The Publishing World Has Been Battling a Truly Bizarre Thief
Reeves Wiedeman has spent years trying to unravel a literary-world mystery, and his lengthy recap of his digging for New York Magazine is confounding at times. As is the mystery. In simplest terms, for...
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DOJ Doesn't Want Publishing's 'Big Five' Becoming 'Big Four'
The Justice Department is suing to block a $2.2 billion book publishing deal that would have reshaped the industry, saying consolidation would hurt authors and, ultimately, readers, the AP reports....
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Widow of Pulitzer Winner Getting His Books Reissued
From the moment the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Oscar Hijuelos died in 2013, at age 62, his wife Lori Carlson-Hijuelos has been on a quest to make sure he wasn't forgotten. “Every day this has been...
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Stephen King Will Be Star Witness in Publishing Antitrust Trial
The government and publishing titan Penguin Random House exchanged opening salvos in a federal antitrust trial Monday as the US seeks to block the biggest US book publisher from absorbing rival Simon...
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Stephen King Testifies for Justice Department
Bestselling author Stephen King stepped up to the witness stand Tuesday in a federal antitrust trial . Tracing his own history, he laid out a portrait of a publishing industry that has become...
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Sci-Fi Publisher Shuts Down Submissions After AI Spam
The Hugo Award-winning magazine Clarkesworld is one of the few paying publishers to welcome open submissions for science fiction short stories from new writers, per the Guardian . But it's now put an...
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Roald Dahl's Publisher Is Releasing Unaltered 'Classic' Versions
The controversy over edits to Roald Dahl's children's books has been resolved in a way that would probably have amused the wry author himself: Publisher Puffin says it will sell two versions of the...
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