A few days ago, The Virginia Quarterly Review (VQR) broke the story that Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson’s upcoming book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, contained uncited passages from WikiPedia. Waldo Jaquith discovered the passages while reading the book to review it for VQR. Jaquith’s blog post on the VQR site includes images with [...]

FiledBy has added new and enhanced features and functionality to help authors better promote themselves and connect with readers. Pre-publication website: Add a new book to your author site before it’s published or set up a pre-publication website!  The work appears under a “Coming Soon” heading on your page and includes links to retail sites [...]

>> Carrie Prejean, the dethroned Miss California USA 2009, has reportedly been shopping her story around to various publishers. Lawyers for Miss California USA now say that Prejean was never given permission to write a book about her experiences in the pageant. The lawyers contend that writing the book would be a further violation of [...]

In one of the biggest science fiction contracts ever, UK writer Alastair Reynolds signed a £1 million book deal (about $1.65 million) with his publisher, Gollancz. The contract with the Orion imprint is for ten books over as many years. He’s already written eight books for Gollancz in the past decade. In 2004, Reynolds quit [...]

HarperCollins is using 2D barcodes in the promotion of the new book L.A. Candy by Lauren Conrad of TV show The Hills. The barcode is printed on the book’s back jacket and when scanned with a cell phone, it takes the reader to content relating to the book, such as video clips. The content can [...]