The Roundup with PW

Profits Rose 14% at B&N in Third Quarter
Net income increased 14% at Barnes & Noble in the third quarter ended January 31, 2015, to $72.1 million. Total revenue fell 1.7%, to $1.97 billion. Core comp store sale rose 1.7%, though total comps fell 0.3% due to lower Nook product sales. more »

Crown's Image Books Halts Acquisitions
In the latest change in Crown's Christian Publishing Group, the company has announced it will stop acquiring new titles for its Catholic imprint, Image Books. The decision will result in the departure of Carie Freimuth, v-p, associate publisher, WaterBrook Multnomah, Convergent, and Image Books. more »

2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival Announced
Daniel Alarcón, Kwame Alexander, Walter Isaacson, Ha Jin, David McCullough, Marilynne Robinson and Jane Smiley are among the authors participating in the 15th annual event, to take place on September 5 in Washington, D.C. »

Triangle Award Finalists Unveiled
The finalists for the 27th annual Triangle Awards, which will honor the best LGBT fiction, nonfiction, and poetry published in 2014, have been announced. The winners will be revealed on April 23 at the Auditorium of the New School in New York City. »

Straight to Audiobook: Authors write original works meant to be heard.

Bailey's Longlist Revealed: Twenty books are on the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist, including five debut novelists and eight previously shortlisted authors.

Tech Blog GigaOm Shuts Down: Gigaom, a pioneering technology blog that became a fixture in Silicon Valley and claimed 6.4 million monthly readers, abruptly announced on Monday that it would shut down.

Piketty Clarifies Findings in 'Capital': French economist Thomas Piketty, author of 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century,' sought to clarify his findings on the causes of rising inequality in a new paper published in the 'American Economic Review.'

Wellcome Trust 2015 Book Prize Finalists: The shortlist, which celebrates the finest recently published books in health, medicine and medical science, includes two novels and four nonfiction books.

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