IDW Publishing library comes to comiXology

IDW Publishing and comiXology have partnered to make the publisher's complete library available digitally across all comiXology platforms - iOS, the Android and the Web

Google Books returns to the Annual Boston Book Festival

From Inside Google Books: Bostonian bookworms curious about ebooks and the latest talented writers are in for a treat this Saturday, October 15 at the third annual Boston Book Festival – a free one-day event celebrating books and authors that's expected to attract more than 30,000 people. We'll be there hosting a Google eBooks Petting Zoo inside the main Boston Book Festival tent at Copley Square, as well as sponsoring two panel discussions

National Book Awards 2011 finalists

Winners of the National Book Awards 2011 will be announced November 16 in New York City. This year's shortlisted titles are:

Fiction:
* The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obrecht (Random House)
* The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka (Knopf)
* Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (Bloomsbury USA)
* The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak (Bellevue Literary Press)
* Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman (Lookout Books)

Nonfiction:
* The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism by Deborah Baker (Graywolf)
* Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution by Mary
* Gabriel (Little, Brown)
* The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt (Norton)
* Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable (Viking)
* Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss (It Books)

Poetry:
* Head Off & Split by Nikky Finney (TriQuarterly)
* The Chameleon Couch by Yusef Komunyakaa (FSG)
* Double Shadow by Carl Phillips (FSG)
* Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010 by Adrienne Rich (Norton)
* Devotions by Bruce Smith (University of Chicago Press)

Young People's Literature:
* My Name Is Not Easy by Debby Dahl Edwardson (Marshall Cavendish)
* Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai (HarperCollins)
* Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy by Albert Marrin (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
* Chime by Franny Billingsley (Dial Books)
* Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion Books)
* Shine by Lauren Myracle (Amulet Books)

75th Governor General’s Literary Awards finalists (Canada)

The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the 68 finalists for the 2011 Governor General's Literary Awards. The GGs, Canada's national book awards celebrate the excellence of Canadian writers, illustrators and translators. The English and French awards are in the categories of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, children's literature (text and illustration) and translation

Book Review: London Unfurled By Matteo Pericoli

Have you ever held a book that is seven times your height? London Unfurled is a remarkable, accordion-style object (book is perhaps the wrong word) containing an even more remarkable panorama. Artist Matteo Pericoli has painstakingly drawn the Thames riverscape, on both north and south banks, between Hammersmith and Greenwich. It's all here; every building, bridge, pier, chimney, steeple. The Shard looms out of the page, half-built. The angles shift and warp, depending on the artist's choice of vantage point

Anne Rice is signing books at Foyles Charing Cross Road (UK)

Internationally bestselling author, creator of the vampire Lestat in Interview with the Vampire and an inspiration to current favourites such as such as Charlaine Harris and Stephanie Meyer, Anne Rice has created some of the most memorable and chilling stories in the history of horror writing. Anne returns to the UK for the first time in over a decade to sign copies of her books exclusively in London for Foyles on October 15, 2011

Jarvis Cocker to be Faber and Faber editor-at-large

Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker has been appointed editor-at-large with book publisher Faber and Faber. The singer will work in a "broad commissioning role" with Faber's publishing and editorial directors. Cocker follows in the footsteps of The Who guitarist Pete Townshend, who was appointed the role at the publisher in the 1980s

Natasha Kaplinsky joins Orange Prize jury (UK)

Newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky and BBC Radio 5 live host Victoria Derbyshire are to join the judging panel for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction. The jury, chaired by bestselling author Joanna Trollope, will also include writer Lisa Appignanesi and broadcaster Natalie Haynes. The £30,000 annual prize recognises the work of fiction written in the English language by women. The winner will be announced on 30 May next year

Barnes & Noble yanks Kindle exclusive comics from its shelves

Don't share with Barnes & Noble, and you'll face the book behemoth's wrath. One week after DC Comics handed over exclusive digital rights for some of its comic books to Amazon, B&N fired back by yanking physical copies of those books off its store shelves. Barnes & Noble said it is following its usual proceedure for dealing with publishers that release digital versions of their books but withhold those e-books from B&N - CNN

Maney Publishing partners with the European Medical Writers Association

Maney Publishing has announced a new publishing arrangement with the European Medical Writers Association to relaunch its journal in 2012. EMWA has been publishing The Write Stuff since 1998. The title will change to Medical Writing from Volume 21, to reflect more clearly the interests of the journal's authors and readership. The re-launch will take place at the EMWA conference in London on 3–4 November 2011