EXCLUSIVE: Fox stepped up to acquire screen rights to author Jessica Townsend's Nevermoor, a novel that created buzz at the Frankfurt Book Fair and just sold publishing rights to Hachette Book Group, which landed English-language rights in an eight-publisher auction. Pub deals have closed in 16 territories so far for…

UPDATES with more information: More than 900 authors including heavyweights Stephen King and John Grisham lent their names to a Sunday New York Times ad decrying Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for pressure tactics hurting writers published by Hachette. The Paris-based owner of Little, Brown, Grand Central, Hyperion and other…

Dominic Patten contributed to this report. Amazon is bumping chests yet again with a media giant, this time with the House That Mickey Built. At issue are contract terms for some of Disney’s biggest DVD/Blu Ray titles — including Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Maleficent, Muppets Most Wanted and Million Dollar Ar…

One week after declaring war on Amazon, Stephen Colbert announced on his show last night that his campaign had resulted in the ordering of 6,400 copies of Edan Lepucki’s new novel California from the independent bookstore Powell’s Books. While maybe an impressive number in the book publishing world, where 15,00o books…