When you’re richer than the Queen, you’re bound to attract some money-hunting crazies. J.K. Rowling and her publisher Bloomsbury are rejecting “unfounded, unsubstantiated, and untrue” plagiarism claims from the estate of...

New Star Books launched George Bowering’s short story collection The Box last week at the Sylvia Hotel in Vancouver. Above, Bowering reads to the crowd. New Star publisher Rolf Maurer, former managing editor Carellin Brooks, and assistant editor...

Illustrator Evan Munday (who sunlights as Coach House Books’s publicist) and YA author Natalie Ghent ran the Test Pilot edition of Small Print’s Volume One Project, a new writing workshop series for pre-teens and tweens, at Humber College in Toronto on...

The Original of Laura, Vladimir Nabokov’s final work, has just been released. To coincide with its publication, Vintage has commissioned new cover designs for the 21 Nabokov backlist titles to which it owns rights. Of course, publishers do this kind...

A BBC article reports that Borders U.K. has ceased taking online book orders and suggests that the company “does not have enough cash to last until Christmas.” The article caps a bad year for the beleaguered company, which operates 45 stores throughout...

Yes, Virginia, you can now self-publish your banal tweets for everyone to enjoy. TweetBookz is a new company that will publish your Twitter feeds as a hardcover book (for $30) or a softcover (for $20). Works can be published in English, French,...