Hollywoodhasalwaysadaptedtheclassicsbutfilmandtelevision'svoraciousappetitefornewmaterialnowhasfilm-makersraidingthebookshelveslikeneverbefore.Sixofthemoviesint
It was "day one" at Amazon Books, the tech giant's first brick-and-mortar store in New York City.
A children's book is at the centre of a controversy in Indonesia because it teaches children about masturbation.
An animal rights row has erupted in India over a school textbook which tells children how to suffocate kittens.
An animal rights row has erupted in India over a school textbook which tells children how to suffocate kittens.
A Japanese hotel chain is refusing to remove copies of a book, written by its CEO, from rooms despite complaints from guests that it denies the wartime massacre of Chinese civilians by Japanese troops.
The Nepali edition of Chinese President Xi Jinping's book "The Governance of China" has been released on Sunday in Nepal's capital city Kathmandu.
Over 3,000 titles and 50 publishing houses from China are being showcased at the Gaudeamus International Book Fair that kicked off on Wednesday in Bucharest, capital of Romania.
Lucky subway and taxi passengers in Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai might stumble upon a hidden book during their commutes.
Paul Beatty has become the first US author to win the Man Booker Prize with his racial satire The Sellout.
Despite an easy access to reading material available through a variety of digitally connected devices, print books remain much more popular than books in digital formats among Americans, a new Pew survey showed.
The second edition of a book about Karl Marx, aimed at boosting the 19th-century thinker's appeal among young people, was published on Friday.
A 132-meter-long ship is laden with more than 5,000 titles and manned by 400 volunteers from 60 countries. Most of the books are rare educational and Christian titles.
Female Australian authors are being shunned by professional book reviewers, while there is also an underrepresentation of women reviewing books, a literature expert from the Australian National University (ANU) told Xinhua on Friday.
Su Chengfen has spent all his life fishing in the reef-filled South China Sea, guided by a handwritten book more than 600 years old that depicts routes to various remote islands from Hainan province.
Tokyo exhibition of photos from a 1992 book about the notorious high-rise slum - one of three published in Japan before any appeared in Chinese - the latest example of a Japanese fascination with Kowloon Walled City, writes Violet Law
A new book on relations between Singapore and China has been launched at the National University of Singapore (NUS).
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