BOOKS

Yes, it's true: LeVar Burton is convening a flash mob, in what could be a zany, enthralling blast to the past for many Millennials.

The YA author has a follow-up essay today, after the storm caused by her last one, titled My 'Reprehensible' Take on Teen Literature.

Making a family history happen doesn't mean you have to put everything else aside, lock yourself in your attic and bang away at the computer until the manuscript is done, writes Biff Barnes of Stories To Tell Books.

For its You Are What You Read campaign, Scholastic has just released Daniel Radcliffe's bookprint.

Those topics, four titles on Moammar Gadhafi, a cool stop-motion animation short and more in today's blog report.

Today's books video pulls back the curtain a bit on J.K. Rowling's Pottermore press conference, where recording was restricted.

When she was given the project of explaining a bit of modern technology to a person who lived and died before 1900, the Cardiff School of Art & Design student created a version of the Kindle to show Charles Dickens in terms that he would understand.

In a bankruptcy court filing, Borders said that it has $714.3 million in both assets and liabilities.

For the second straight week, State of Wonder by Ann Patchett tops the latest hardcover bestseller fiction list from IndieBound.

With President Obama's announcement that America will begin withdrawing from Afghanistan, the International Business Times reviews a book which argues that the Afghan-Pakistani border is the vanishing point for the American empire.

ARGENTINA -- Blogger Patricio Tarantino says that when Pottermore first emerged last week, he thought it would be something amazing and that it would change the Harry Potter fandom. Not so much.

Jessica Ciaramella, the blogger of thelastmuggle.com, returns to the International Business Times Books section to give her take on Pottermore.

Pottermore is a website about all things Harry Potter in a digital format. Fans can download Harry Potter e-books there. There will be games. J.K. Rowling will spill some secrets she'd been hoarding for years about the world of Harry Potter.

The digital countdown is over, the owls have vamooshed, and Pottermore is finally here -- sort of -- with all of its attendant expectations and implications.

The online reading experience of Pottermore will begin with users traveling through book 1, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's (Sorcerer's) Stone.

No new Harry Potter books on the way.

Good morning, Harry Potter fans. Check here for live blog coverage of J.K. Rowling's Pottermore announcement.

Today's books video is from Matti McLean, who just had a book published called Catalyst: Saga of the Radicals.

A writer explores computer bookmarks in this original piece of poetry for the International Business Times Books section.

From a tome of wizard info to Pottermort, the blogger behind thelastmuggle.com explores some theories flying around like pixies loose in a Defense Against the Dark Arts class about you-know-what.

In today's blog report you'll find various morsels to chew on from the world of books, beginning with writers wrestling with how to make the most of e-publishing.

Literary critic John Granger, the original Hogwarts Professor, says his two responses to the new website are so what? and please don't patronize me.

As Pottermore approaches, author Dee Garretson looks at how the Harry Potter creator fixes characters' images in readers' minds.

To celebrate summer's arrival, a blogger has picked out nine books from her shelves that she is going to give away to one of her readers.

The author of A Writer's Guide to Harry Potter breaks down the clues she believes J.K. Rowling is releasing through the Pottermore YouTube video.

Google and the British Library announced a partnership on Monday to digitize 250,000 out-of-copyright books from the library’s collections. The entire digitization cost will be covered by Google.

Today's books video is an interview with Carlos, a 21-year-old writer.

His name: John Locke.

Kate Austen is heading somewhere even more wondrous than a mystical island in the South Pacific this time.