Last night Publishers Weekly reported that Amazon had removed buy buttons from graphic novels from major comic book publishers like Marvel, IDW, Dark Horse, and Image Comics--apparently to rectify a pricing problem with graphic novels. Amazon customers are already wondering about the situation in the online retailer's forums. Here's the scoop: "A source knowledgeable about the situation ...

Title: The Difference Engine Author: William Gibson and Bruce Sterling Genre: Science Fiction / Steampunk Publisher: Spectra (US) / Gollancz (UK) Publication Date: 1992 / 1996 (First published: 1990) Paperback: 448 pages / 384 pages The computer age has arrived a century ahead of time with Charles Babbage’s

Title: Meridian Days Author: Eric Brown Publisher: Pan SF Format: Paperback Pages: 176 Release Date: 13th August 1993 Bob lives on a planet patronized by artists and their friends. Involved in a terrible accident, for which he blames himself, Bob now lives in a semi-reclusive manner. When a concerned neighbour, Abe, drags him to a party he becomes involved with Fire, the daughter of a sculptress a...

Dennis Lehane's Shutter Island holds the top spot for the fourth consecutive week on Amazon.com's list of bestselling Kindle e-books, released March 9 by Publishers Marketplace. Holding on to second and third place for the week ending March 6 are longtime bestsellers The Help by Kathryn Stockett and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson.

American actress and singer Hilary Duff is set to publish a series of young adult novels, announced publisher Simon & Schuster on March 9. The first novel in the series, Elixir, will be published in hardcover in October 2010.

The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Werewolf Smackdown by Mario Acevedo.About the book, from the publisher: Felix Gomez, Latino vampire detective extraordinaire, tackles a dangerous werewolf cabal in the fifth installment in Mario Acevedo's satirical supernatural seriesA sure-to-be-bloody civil war is brewing between rival werewolf factions, and P.I . Felix Gomez will do anything he can to

As Disney rebrands Rapunzel as Tangled, we imagine what other children's stories and fairy tales could be made more appealing to boys Disney is taking no chances. Book publishers have long since realised that anything that sounds too obviously girly is a complete no-no for the unfairer sex – hence JK Rowling's books weren't published under the name of Joanne Rowling. Hollywood...

I got some awesome books from Jonathan Ball Publishers today, and without further ado, here they are: The Passage by Justin Cronin Afterlight by Alex Scarrow Wolfsangel by MD Lachlan The Castle Omnibus by Steph Swainston Above the Snowline by Steph Swainston Horns by Joe Hill Spirit by Gwyneth Jones Archangel’s Kiss by Nalini Singh Angel’s Blood by Nalini Singh WWW: Wake by Robert J

Today Penguin's Portfolio imprint launched Current, a new imprint for science books--hoping to bring science titles to a general audience. Portfolio and Sentinel publisher Adrian Zackheim will helm the new science imprint as well--using the marketing and publicity resources at Portfolio for the new imprint. The imprint expects to publish between five to eight titles a year. Zackheim had this ...

(View entire post here) PENGUIN GROUP (USA) TO LAUNCH A NEW SCIENCE IMPRINT CALLED CURRENT First Current Titles to be Published in July and September 2010 Susan Petersen Kennedy, President of Penguin Group (USA), announced today that the company is starting a new imprint for science books for general readers that will be called Current. Adrian Zackheim, the president and publisher of Penguin Group...