The idea of negotiating as a group for better discounts, more author appearances, and more has excited a group of independent bookstores in the UK.

 

Some publishing players in the UK are protesting the Man Booker Prize for Fiction's eligibility rules, saying that the Booker should reimpose a 'ban on American writers.'

 

In France, an exhibition on Arab comics launches at the Angoulême Comics Festival. And in the States, Scholastic's nonfiction imprint will tackle history and social issues.