HarperCollins Creates New Digital Imprint for YA Market

HarperCollins is launching a new digital YA imprint for short stories and novellas. The new imprint, which they've called HarperTeen Impulse, will start sales on December 4th.

HarperCollins Imprint Aims at Lucrative Young Adult Market

Scholastic News

Scholastic is having a tougher year than expected:

Scholastic Reduces Earnings Estimates

E-Publishing News

There are a lot of interesting things coming to e-books. Which ones are you most looking forward to?

Choose Your Own Adventure

Babysitters Club

5 amazing iPad e-books for kids

Sweet Valley High

Is Another Major Publishing House Merger In The Works?

Random House and Penguin's merger last month was big news in the publishing world. Is there another big merger in the works between Simon and Schuster and HarperCollins?

News Corp. Interested in Buying Simon and Schuster

Who Is Moving Where?

Read about the staffing changes in the children's publishing world over the last year and a half:

Who's Moving Where? News and Staff Changes at Children's Book Publishers

Random Book Dispenser

While this doesn't really have anything to do with children's books specifically, I thought some people might find it interesting anyway. A bookstore in Toronto has created a Random Book Dispenser.

Scholastic Donates to Sandy Victims

NY, NJ and beyond continue to rebuild after Hurricane Sandy's devastation. We are heartened to see Scholastic assist in the recovery effort by donating books and other educational information to aid in the recovery efforts:

Scholastic Donates One Million Books