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The U.S. copyright register rakes Google over the coals at a hearing on the proposed book settlement.

Raymond Carver's new collection from the Library of America is reviewed in the L.A. Times. We discussed it here.

If you don't like the quality of Chick-Lit out there you can help Dahlia Lithwick write her new novel.

Is The Late Age of Print by Ted Striphas the official eulogy on the age of the in-your-hand, buy-it-at-the-bookstore book? You decide.

But things aren't automatically cheery in the e-book world. Quartet Books has folded before even publishing one text.

2009 Man Booker Prize shortlist announced.

Books with the same cover art.

Publishing executives wax optimistic.

Electric Literature debuts "Single Sentence Animations."