Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2012 shortlist

The shortlist for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2012 has been announced

Anne Rice at Google to discuss "The Wolf Gift" on February 24

Anne Rice, author of Interview with the Vampire, The Witching Hour, and Angel Time: The Songs of the Seraphim will be at Google's headquarters in Mountain View to discuss her latest book, The Wolf Gift, on Friday, February 24 at 10AM PST

Books-A-Million won't carry Amazon titles

Books-A-Million has joined with Barnes & Noble and will not carry Amazon Publishing titles, including those published under Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's New Harvest imprint

Pit Pony author Joyce Barkhouse dies

Joyce Barkhouse, the Nova Scotia-based children's author who wrote Pit Pony, has died. She was 98

Young 'lack attention for Dickens'

Modern-day children are not being educated to read with the attention span necessary for a Dickens novel, a leading expert said as the country prepares to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of the revered author

Barnes & Noble announces finalists for the 21st Annual Discover Great New Writers Awards

Barnes & Noble, Inc. has announced the six finalists for its 2011 Discover Great New Writers Awards. The winners in each category, fiction and nonfiction, receive a $10,000 prize and a full year of additional promotion from Barnes & Noble. Second-place finalists receive $5,000, and third-place finalists, $2,500. The finalists are:

Fiction:
* Alan Heathcock, Volt (Graywolf Press)
* Alice LaPlante, Turn of Mind (Atlantic Monthly Press)
* Scott O'Connor, Untouchable (Tyrus Books, a division of F+W Media, Inc.)

Nonfiction:
* Annia Ciezadlo, Day of Honey (Free Press)
* Joshua Cody, [sic] (W.W. Norton)
* Michael Levy, Kosher Chinese (Henry Holt & Co.)

The winners will be announced on Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at a private awards ceremony. The Discover Awards honor the best works featured the previous calendar year in the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program

Junglee is an online shopping service by Amazon

Junglee is an online shopping service by Amazon which enables customers to find and discover products from online and offline retailers in India and from Amazon.com. Junglee organizes massive selection and multiple buying options from hundreds of sellers, and leverages Amazon's proven technologies and millions of customer reviews to help customers make smart purchase decisions

Shadow culture minister Dan Jarvis is "in the process of developing" a plan for libraries (UK)

Libraries across the UK face closure: why won't the government intervene? Shadow arts minister Dan Jarvis has a plan – even if Ed Vaizey doesn't - Guardian

Theo Walcott backs Daily Mirror's We Love Reading campaign

Theo Walcott backs Daily Mirror's We Love Reading campaign

DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2012 winner

The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2012 was awarded to Singapore based Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka for his book Chinaman (Random House, India), a novel that explores cricket as a metaphor to uncover a lost life and a lost history. Chinaman skilfully uses sport and the notion of fair play to look at Sri Lanka in a fresh and exciting way