Awards

Amazon wins control of .book domain name; AMIBA offering buy local resources in Spanish; Indies Introduce author wins 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize; National Readathon Day to support NBF’s literacy efforts; First Amendment Groups express concern over Kings Canyon School Board review process; Courtney Muller named executive vice president at Urban Expositions; 2014 National Outdoor Book Award winners announced

Richard Flanagan wins Man Booker Prize for Fiction; First Amendment groups challenge Idaho school’s parental consent form; Eric Schwartz joins Columbia University Press as editorial director

France’s Patrick Modiano wins Nobel Prize for Literature; Mary Rasenberger named Authors Guild executive director; Policy research institute says Amazon should collect sales tax in Ohio; Free speech groups caution Waukesha School Board; Ingram Content Group opens POD facility in California; Winners of European Union Prize for Literature announced at Frankfurt

Egmont USA for sale; Authors Guild seeks investigation into Amazon’s practices; Persepolis reinstated in Ball-Chatham classrooms; Kirkus announces finalists for 2014 prize; John Kenney wins Thurber Prize for American Humor; National Book Foundation names 5 Under 35