The New York Times

The deal between private equity firm Najafi Cos. and The Borders Group, which filed for bankruptcy protection in February, is off.

Friday marks the end of an era. Some, like Warner Bros. executive Dan Fellman, compare its finality to the breakup of the Beatles.

When Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the eighth and presumably final film based on the phenom that has sold 450 million books and close to a billion movie tickets, opens this week in theaters from Lahore to Los Angeles, it will be twilight in the Potterverse.

This week, the iPad app world is frantically sorting through some recent changes in its environment. Apple has quietly altered its app approval policies in a way that will make publishers – in particular, subscription-based publishers like The New York Times – much happier.

Specifically, Apple has relaxed its control over whether apps can access content paid for outside of the App Store’s purchase APIs. The company has also given control over pricing content back to publishers, allowing them to price however they want, both outside and inside of the app.

Today, less than four years after introducing Kindle books, Amazon.com customers are now purchasing more Kindle books than all print books.

Enthusiast publisher F+W has announced its entry into trade fiction publishing with the purchase of Tyrus Books and launch of its newest special interest community, F+W Crime.

Disney Publishing Worldwide will launch The Kane Chronicles, Book Two: The Throne of Fire with a 1.5 million-copy first printing on Tuesday, May 3, 2011.

Here in Philadelphia, I'm settling back into office life after nearly a week in New York City at the annual Publishing Business Conference & Expo (PBC). And while of course I'm going to sound biased, considering I'm one of the event's conference program editors, PBC is my favorite industry event. I always come home with a notebook full of inspiration and new ideas, and I always have the opportunity to meet and interact with some of the most brilliant minds in publishing.

Available for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, "Peter Rabbit: Buddy Edition" incorporates technology allowing two people to remotely read aloud together.

98% of more than 600 respondents to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch poll who said changes to "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" should not be made.

Since the beginning of 2010, for every 100 paperback books Amazon sold, the company reportedly sold 115 Kindle books across Amazon.com's entire U.S. book business.