Books/Publishing News

NEW YORK - A rare copy of Edgar Allan Poe's first book has sold for $662,500, smashing the previous record price for American literature. Full Story »

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Novelist Jonathan Lethem's "Gun, With Occasional Music" is being loaded once again. Full Story »

Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback Full Story »

1. "I, Alex Cross" by James Patterson (Little Brown) Full Story »

1. "I, Alex Cross" by James Patterson (Little, Brown) Full Story »

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - She's no longer the chief executive of Alaska, but Sarah Palin should still be called "governor." And in English only, please. Full Story »

"Hollywood Moon" (Little, Brown, 344 pages, $26.99) by Joseph Wambaugh: "Hollywood Moon" is the third novel in Joseph Wambaugh's series about the denizens of the Los Angeles Police Department's Hollywood Division — and it is by far the best. Full Story »

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Collaboration is critical in the workplace, choreographer Twyla Tharp writes in a new book that contends that although most workers do not team up with artistic greats as she does, the secrets to success are universal. Full Story »

Google is changing the way it indexes news in an online world hungry for headlines. In the wake of complaints from media companies, Google has forged a path for paid subscriptions by altering its First Click Free program. Full Story »

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Lynn Giese calls Sarah Palin the best thing that's happened to the U.S. in a long time, and the 57-year-old housewife says she'd work tirelessly for the former Alaska governor were she to run for president in 2012. Full Story »

LONDON - Google Inc. is allowing publishers of paid content to limit the number of free news articles accessed by people using its Internet search engine, a concession to an increasingly disgruntled media industry. Full Story »

SYDNEY (Reuters) - When Suzan Colon was laid off from her dream job as a magazine editor in New York, her mother came up with some advice that has led to the next chapter of her life -- "put up soup," or resort to fortifying foods. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Google, under fire from Rupert Murdoch and some other newspaper owners, said it will let publishers set a limit on the number of articles people can read for free through its search engine. Full Story »

NEW YORK - Julie Powell's new book is not for the squeamish, in more ways than one. Full Story »

NEW YORK - "Going Rogue" has sold a million copies. Full Story »

LONDON (AFP) - Franco-American author Jonathan Littell has won the Bad Sex In Fiction Award for a book that had previously scooped France's top literary award. Full Story »

LONDON - A cringe-inducing passage which compares a sexual encounter to battle with an one-eyed mythological monster was awarded Britain's Bad Sex in Fiction Prize on Monday. Full Story »

LONDON (Reuters) - Jonathan Littell, who won France's prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2006 for "The Kindly Ones," has picked up another prize for the same work -- the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award. Full Story »