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Stephen King on his latest novel, and why he loves writing crime stories: 'If it doesn’t fit a particular genre, that’s good'

His new novel has a lot of crime in it but, as King’s narrator suggests, it might actually be a horror story.

Hillary Clinton to team up with novelist Louise Penny on new mystery novel, State of Terror

Fiction writing and worst-case scenarios have become a favorite pastime for Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

Tata Literature Live 2019: Shortlists for five awards, including Book of the Year, announced

The Tata Literature Live! Mumbai LitFest, scheduled to take place from 14-17 November 2019, announced the final shortlists for five awards. The Tata Literature Live! Mumbai LitFest, scheduled to take place from 14-17 November 2019, announced the final shortlists for five awards.

Amazon's Audible sued by HarperCollins, Penguin Random House and other publishers

Audible wants to provide the text as well despite only having the right to sell audiobooks

Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature offers a portrait of the late prime minister as an environmentalist

Jairam Ramesh's book — Indira Gandhi: A Life In Nature — is a decent effort, coming during Mrs Gandhi’s birth centenary year, to piece together a life immersed in nature although her day job would have been to cater to needs of a developing nation.

Milo Yiannopoulos, far-right firebrand, quits Breitbart over pedophilia remarks

Serial provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, a conservative firebrand and staunch fan of President Donald Trump, resigned Tuesday from the right-wing news site Breitbart amid a storm triggered by comments in which he seems to condone paedophilia.

Oyster to launch online e-book store to take on Amazon

Oyster, an e-books subscription service, has announced to foray into online retail with an e-book store to take on Amazon.

Canadian agency expects lower e-book prices after deal

Court hears terse testimony in e-book trial

Macmillan CEO John Sargent, who testified this week at a trial over alleged price-fixing of e-books, was no one's idea of a friendly witness. Of the five publishers the U.S. Justice Department sued last year, Macmillan was the last to settle and the most defiant...

Apple denies colluding with eBook publishers to undermine Amazon

Apple said the publishers had decided, independent of Apple, to eliminate discounts on the wholesale book prices of e-books and to take other measures to push Amazon to raise prices.