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David Suchet, best known for playing Hercule Poirot, has said that next year may be his last playing the Belgian detective. He has been playing the part since 1989. Suchet will have participated in adaptations of every Poirot novel and 50 of the 51 short stories the character appears in.

Head of Zeus has acquired the publishing rights for the next six books from C.J. Box. The UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) purchased are for two standalone novels, two Joe Pickett novels and a short story collection of Joe Pickett stories.

Phoenix Pick – a sci-fi publisher – gives away one free eBook per month to members of its mailing list, and now they’re going to give away free eBooks on Tuesdays and Wednesdays until at least June 5th. Phoenix Pick is based is Maryland and publishes both reprints and original books. Its roster includes authors […]

George R.R. Martin is pretty much happy with how well his books were adapted into Cyanide’s Game of Thrones RPG. Still, he realizes not everyone will be as pleased. “Of course I want fans to like it. But nothing pleases everyone, and you can’t let that control what you do,” he told Joystiq.

Rod Reed, an ex-councillor in Beckenham, England, is looking to celebrate the life and accomplishments of one of the town’s most famous residents in the form of a statue. “I carried out research and was amazed to find that there was no statue of Enid Blyton in Great Britain and it has always struck me […]

It appears to be down to Chloe Moretz and Hayley Bennett in the race to play Carrie in the remake of the Stephen King horror film.

Expectations were high for the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins‘ book The Hunger Games, but it more than lived up to every one of them. The first in the trilogy was able to pull in a cool $155 million, making it the third biggest opening weekend of all time, behind the final Harry Potter film […]

As we expected, a deal has been made with E.L. James and her Fifty Shades of Grey series. Universal Pictures and Focus Features have acquired the rights to adapt the series. Considering rumours have it that Sony bid $5 million and didn’t get the rights, we can only imagine what this eBook series sold for.

Hachette UK is the new owner of the rights of Enid Blyton‘s estate with the exception of the Noddy Library (those rights were recently purchased by Classic Media). Hachette Children’s Books rep Marlene Johnson said, “I am absolutely delighted that we have acquired world rights to publish Enid Blyton. Hodder was her original publisher, so […]

So… who ordered the pot? 11 pounds of marijuana valued at $70,000 coming from “ABT Books” in San Diego were seized before they arrived at the St. Martin’s Press New York City offices. Postal workers noticed a “suspicious odour” emanating from them.