Teens know what to read at teenreads.com Carol Fitzgerald is co-founder and president of the popular teen-books website Teenreads.com, which offers teens everything from book reviews and author information to contests. Founded in 1997 as part of the Book Report Network, it draws 300,000 visitors per month. Q: How would you describe Teenreads in a … Read more
J.K. ROWLING WRITES ‘CASUAL VACANCY’ FOR ADULTSBy Deirdre Donahue and Craig Wilson Once upon a time, J.K. Rowling set children’s imaginations on fire. Can the creator of Harry Potter ignite a similar conflagration for a grown-up audience? The British author will find out on Sept. 27, when more than 2 million hardcover copies of her … Read more
OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB 2.0 GOES DIGITALBy Bob Minzesheimer When Oprah Winfrey, then the brightest star on daytime TV, began her book club in 1996, inexpensive e-books and e-readers seemed more futurist rumor than everyday reality. Social media could have meant friendly reporters. Now, as Winfrey, co-owner of a struggling cable network, launches Oprah’s Book Club … Read more
OPRAH WINFREY REVIVES HER BOOK CLUB THIS MONDAY WITH ‘WILD’By Deirdre Donahue Borders may be gone, but the Queen has returned. As publishing prepares for its annual convention, BookExpo America, which opens Tuesday in Manhattan, Oprah Winfrey announced she will revive her fabled book club. Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 will launch Monday, this time with … Read more
FICTION CONTINUES ITS RISE AS READERS’ GO-TO GENRE By Carol Memmott and Anthony DeBarros Fiction — led by Kathyrn Stockett’s The Help as the year’s No. 1 seller — was 2011’s go-to genre for the majority of book readers, analysis of data from USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list shows. Choosing novels over non-fiction is a … Read more
New Weekly Newsletter Keeps Readers in Touch with New Releases NEW YORK — April 13, 2011 — Bookreporter.com and Teenreads.com, two websites in TheBookReportNetwork.com have launched On Sale This Week Newsletters, alerting readers of the books that go on sale each week. The Bookreporter.com newsletter can be found here and the Teenreads.com newsletter can be … Read more
Teenreads.com Expands Ultimate Teen Reading List for Five-Year Anniversary NEW YORK — March 24, 2011 — Teenreads.com, a website in TheBookReportNetwork.com, has updated its Ultimate Teen Reading List. The list includes nearly 400 titles, ranging from fiction to nonfiction that are recommended pleasure reading for teens aged 12-17. Twenty-one graphic novel and manga titles appear … Read more
40% of Book Groups Reported Having Read The Help in 2010 NEW YORK — March 21, 2011 — ReadingGroupGuides.com, a website from TheBookReportNetwork.com has announced the Top 25 Book Group Discussion Books of 2010. Between mid-December and mid-February, book groups were asked to submit a list of the books that its members discussed in 2010. … Read more
Surprise Finding: Majority of Bookreporter.com’s Survey Respondents Read Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Series in Hardcover and Paperback, Not eBooks NEW YORK – February 14, 2011 — Bookreporter.com, a website in TheBookReportNetwork.com, has released the results of its recent Millennium Series Survey, in which they asked readers to answer questions about Stieg Larsson and his bestselling Millennium … Read more
NEW YORK—October 1, 2010—The Book Report Network has announced plans to develop a book website for readers in college and twenty somethings. This website will have suggestions of books to read for personal pleasure, non-required reading. The expected launch date is early 2011. “At this time, we are not seeing this key market of readers … Read more