March 23, 2011  |   In New York on Tuesday, federal Judge Danny Chin overturned a settlement between Google and the national trade organizations that represent American authors and publishers which dictates terms of a massive book digitalization project, led by Google.

February 16, 2011  |   On Wednesday, the bookstore chain Borders filed for Chapter 11 reorganization after accumulating more than $1 billion in debt and failing to pay publishers that supply its inventory.

October 1, 2010  |   The scorching 93 degree heat on Saturday was not enough to deter throngs of book lovers from coming out for the 10th Annual National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Library of Congress. Art Beat took to the National Mall for some "reader-on-the-street" -style interviews.

July 30, 2010  |   On July 22, literary agent Andrew Wylie announced an exclusive partnership with retailer Amazon to begin selling digital versions of many classic backlist titles by authors such as Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, Evelyn Waugh, Hunter S. Thompson, Salman Rushdie and many others, that would be accessible only on Amazon's Kindle e-reader.

June 29, 2010  |   This week, librarians from around the country have gathered in Washington for the annual meeting of the American Library Association to meet with authors, share experiences and discuss topics ranging from budget cuts, branch closings and staff reductions, to technology upgrades and innovations.

May 27, 2010  |   On Tuesday, a panel of publishers, book agents, authors and booksellers kicked off Book Expo America 2010 -- the major annual U.S. publishing convention and exposition held in New York each year -- by asking a fundamental, but newly challenging question confronting the changing publishing industry: What is the value of a book? Jonathan Galassi moderated that panel. Galassi is the president of the distinguished publishing house Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

March 26, 2010  |   Open Letter Books, a small press operating out of the University of Rochester in New York, is trying to offer those readers a head start. Unlike some large publishing houses that occasionally release translated works, Open Letter only publishes works in translation.

March 12, 2010  |   In 2005, the Authors Guild brought a lawsuit against Google for digitally scanning books without permission of the books' authors. In November 2009, a court approved an amended settlement between the Guild and Google that gives authors the option of opting out.

February 19, 2010  |   Jeffrey Brown talks Alberto Manguel, author of "The Library at Night," a series of essays on the "idea" of the library through time and place, from ancient Alexandria to cyberspace, with stops along the way at his personal library of some 30,000 books.

February 12, 2010  |   Ursula Le Guin, best for her works of science fiction and fantasy, has been writing and publishing novels, children's books, poetry and drama for over four decades. In December, she withdrew her membership from the Author's Guild because she disagreed with the organization's stance on the author settlement offered by Google in its plan to digitize millions of books.

January 15, 2010  |   Katherine Paterson, the author of many beloved children's novels such as "The Bridge to Terabithia", was last week named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.

December 31, 2009  |   In another in our series about the future of literature and literacy, Spencer Michels looks at internet giant Google's controversial plan to offer millions of books online.

December 10, 2009  |   Author Rick Moody has just published a new short story titled "Some Contemporary Characters." But the delivery system was unusual: The story was "published" on a Twitter feed in serial tweets every 10 - 20 minutes over three days, with a few reported kinks in transmission.