US Book News from PW

Kobo Experiments With Experiential Game 

Kobo has ventured into new territory, creating an alternate reality game called The Descent for a three-week contest to help promote the launch of Dan Brown’s new novel Inferno. The Canadian-based company enlisted U.K. self-published author J. F. Penn to write three original short stories in a similar style to Brown’s mysteries, which can be downloaded for free. more »

Twenty Carlos Fuentes Books Come to E
On the first anniversary of his death in Mexico City, more than a dozen works by literary and political icon Carlos Fuentes will be published in the U.S. as e-books for the first time. With this backlist release by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, twenty of Fuentes’s works, as of May 14, will now be available in the digital format, including Where the Air is Clear (1957), The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962) and The Old Gringo (1985). more »

Borders Bankruptcy Wends On
More than 18 months after it closed its last store, the Borders bankruptcy case continues to deal with unresolved issues that will determine how much money publishers and other creditors ultimately receive. Since last fall, the BGI Creditors' Liquidating Trust has been clawing back the $485 million that Borders paid in the 90-day run up to bankruptcy. more »