Publisher warms to Scribd store, offers books by Dan Brown, Stephen King

October 4th, 2009 German media tycoon REINHARD MOHN has died. He was 88. Mohn was the fifth generation to head Bertelsmann AG - turning the company his family founded in 1835 into one of the world's largest media conglomerates.

September 24th, 2009 'Da Vinci Code' publisher resigningNEW YORK — The man who published "The Da Vinci Code" is resigning. Stephen Rubin, a publishing executive since 1984 whose authors have included Dan Brown, John Grisham and Pat Conroy, said Thursday that he was stepping down as executive vice president and publisher-at-large of Random House Inc., effective Oct.

September 9th, 2009 LED ZEPPELIN star JIMMY PAGE has turned down a string of lucrative offers to lift the lid on his time in the legendary band - insisting he's just "not interested" in writing a book. The veteran guitarist admits he has been approached by numerous publishing houses over the years, all eager to sign him up to pen his autobiography.

September 8th, 2009 Former SPICE GIRLS star MELANIE BROWN is to give up the trappings of her lavish lifestyle for a new U.K. reality show, which will see her move in with a low-income family.

September 4th, 2009 Former SPICE GIRLS star MELANIE BROWN was left in London with no luggage after her flight from the U.S. was disrupted by heavy storms.

September 2nd, 2009 Coolerbooks.com to get 1M books from Google scansSAN FRANCISCO — Interead, a British company that sells the COOL-ER e-book reader, is adding more than 1 million free public-domain books to its online bookstore. The texts are available from Google Inc.

September 1st, 2009 Former SPICE GIRL MELANIE BROWN has filed a $7 million (£4.7 million) lawsuit against a former business partner for fraud and breach of contract. According to court documents, Brown and her husband Stephen Belafonte claim they partnered with Dan Catullo in 2008 to set up a company to profit from her "music, touring, merchandising (and) public appearances".

August 27th, 2009 Emmy Award-winning director JASON BROWN has shot a new documentary about the town that is home to the TWILIGHT movie saga. Twilight in Forks takes a look at the real people and places of the remote Washington state town, where the vampire film franchise, adapted from Stephenie Meyer's books, is based.

August 25th, 2009 Sony plans a Kindle rival with wireless downloadsNEW YORK — Sony Corp. plans to offer an e-book reader with the ability to wirelessly download books, injecting more competition in a small but fast-growing market by adopting a key feature of the rival Kindle from Amazon.com.

August 12th, 2009 Tabloid book publisher Michael Viner diesBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Michael Viner (VEE'-nuhr), who helped popularize audio books and published a line of tabloid tell-all books that included O.J.

August 5th, 2009 R&B star CHRIS BROWN has pulled out of a reported appearance on CNN news show LARRY KING LIVE. The interview with King - Brown's first since his fight with ex-girlfriend Rihanna in February (09) - was allegedly scheduled for Wednesday night (05Aug09), after the singer had been formally sentenced for his attack on the Umbrella star.

July 18th, 2009 Pirated copies of Orwell books pulled from KindleNEW YORK — A pirated e-book of "1984" led to an Orwellian moment for Kindle customers. Users of Amazon.com's e-reader device were surprised and unsettled over the past day to receive notice that George Orwell works they had purchased, including "1984" and "Animal Farm," had been removed from their Kindle and their money refunded.

June 22nd, 2009 Books by Martin Luther King Jr. to be republishedATLANTA — Four books that have been long out of print by the Rev.

June 16th, 2009 Publisher of 'Harry Potter' denies plagiarismLONDON — The publisher of the wildly popular and very profitable "Harry Potter" books says it intends to fight a lawsuit alleging that author J.K. Rowling stole the idea for the series about the boy wizard.

May 4th, 2009 Beck is Back, with 3 booksNEW YORK — Glenn Beck loves the publishing game. The conservative commentator and best-selling author has reached an agreement with Simon & Schuster for a series of books — fiction and nonfiction, for young and for old, in a variety of formats — the publisher announced Monday.