Beastie Boys memoir scheduled for 2015
NEW YORK (AP) - The iconic hip-hop group has a deal with Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House Inc., for an illustrated oral history...
Authors of color accuse big publishers of showing no love
POSTSCRIPT'D - All over the Internet and the blogosphere, writers of color lament the difficulty in getting a deal from mainstream publishing’s Big Six: Hachette Book Group, Harper Collins, Macmillan, Penguin Group, Random House and Simon & Schuster...
Manie Barron, agent and editor, dies at age 55
NEW YORK (AP) - Barron, an editor and literary agent, worked on and advocated for African-American books through much of a 23-year publishing career...
Obama's kids book sells 50,000 copies in 5 days
NEW YORK (AP) - President Obama is donating his proceeds from it to a scholarship fund for children of disabled and fallen soldiers...
Obama children's book 'Of Thee I Sing' out Nov. 16
NEW YORK (AP) - Random House children's president and publisher Chip Gibson lauded the new Obama book, which is intended for readers ages 3 and up...
