Tesco buys e-book store Mobcast for £4.5m

Tesco has bought an online e-book store co-founded by Bravo Two Zero author Andy McNab, in the retailer's latest push into the digital sector

Book trailer: Reign of the Night Creatures (The Everafter Chronicles, Book 1) by Casey Sean Harmon

Tate Publishing presents a new young adult adventure novel by author Casey Sean Harmon. Coming Spring 2013

Book trailer: Splintered by A.G. Howard

Splintered is an eerie and whimsical young adult fantasy spin-off of Lewis Carroll's beloved Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

The Penguin Podcast: Action & Adventure feat. Jacqueline Wilson, Karen Maitland and Michelle Paver

Today's podcast is all about adventure - from medieval crime and Bronze Age Gods to ancient fairies

2012 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel winner

Neil Cross was announced as the winner of the 2012 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel for his book "Luther: The Calling"

Layoffs at Perma-Bound books as schools shift towards digital reading

Perma-Bound books let go of 23 employees this week. Company president Jim Orr says about the same number of people were furloughed last year. He says some of this week's layoffs were people who were brought back. Perma-Bound employs about 280 people

Kobo and Independent bookstores join forces to expand eReading across the U.S.

Kobo and the American Booksellers Association have announced a new partnership to bring Kobo's eReading platform to independent bookstores across the United States

Brill launches domain Brill.com for website and email addresses

Academic publisher Brill has announced the migration to Brill.com as the new domain for the corporate website and the employees' email addresses. As of this week, Brill.com will replace the previous domain Brill.nl. In its 330th year, Brill's headquarters are still based in the Netherlands, but the new domain more accurately conveys the company's long standing tradition as an international publisher. "Moving to a .com domain is an adequate reflection of Brill's global scope and ambitions," says Herman A. Pabbruwe, CEO of Brill. Existing URLs and email addresses with the old domain Brill.nl will continue to be redirected indefinitely

Score free audiobooks from Audible with a simple Google search

If you love audiobooks but don't want to empty your wallet paying for them, this simple search trick will show you all the free audiobooks on Audible.com. While a lot of sites have a dedicated section to their free offerings (Amazon and iTunes, to name two), Audible does not - in fact, you can't even arrange your search results by price. Redditor Parrot0123 discovered a trick, though: just search Audible for "$0.00" using a site-specific Google search

2012 Tony Hillerman Writers Conference (USA)

2012 Tony Hillerman Writers Conference - November 8–10. 2012 - Santa Fe, NM. Established to honor mystery author Tony Hillerman, the conference keeps Hillerman's legacy alive with workshops on the art and craft of writing and welcomes writers of all genres and abilities