You're not a chef, but you can cook well enough to get by, so you grab your best cookbook and get to work. That's the idea behind O'Reilly's Linux Networking Cookbook, by Carla Schroder. Carla has gathered a group of

André Breton, the apostle of surrealism, would probably have been amused rather than annoyed. Art historians and critics are puzzled and angry.

Same store sales of books at Hastings Entertainment had a solid first quarter, up 5.6%, the company reported this morning. Hastings said sales of new trade paperbacks, including Eckhart Tolle's New Earth, as well as higher sales of used trade

Harry N. Abrams has appointed Chuck Lang managing director of its U.K. office, Abrams UK. Lang, most recently v-p of publishing and marketing at Langenscheidt Publishing Group, had previously been with Dorling Kindersley where he was senior v-p, publishing, and

Two stories of neglected history have won this year's Commonwealth writers' prizes. African-Canadian novelist Lawrence Hill has won the headline prize for his novel The Book of Negroes, based on the true story of a Malian woman's journey from enslavement

Before inviting the web to create a collaborative novel using a wiki in 2007, Jeremy Ettinghausen asked, "Can a community write a novel?" The answer is yes but a terrible one! A year later the Penguin publisher told researchers at

Random House's Vintage Anchor has lost a longtime editor: Marty Asher, head of the highbrow paperback imprint, has stepped down to become an editor at large for Knopf.

German media giant Bertelsmann AG has tapped the head of its printing unit, Markus Dohle, to head its Random House unit, a move that could shake up the big and influential book-publishing business, says a person familiar with the situation.

He fought and defeated the Germans in two world wars. He foiled plans for a Russian invasion of Britain and scuppered a Japanese plot to poison Allied pilots with chewing gum and chocolates.