Hasta La Creative!

Apple will face restrictions in its agreements with publishers, but not the extensive government oversight sought by the Justice Department.

Mr. Shear, the publisher of St. Martin’s Press, helped writers like Janet Evanovich and Augusten Burroughs climb the best-seller lists.

Barnes & Noble, the nation’s largest book chain, had been locked in a disagreement with Simon & Schuster over how much it was willing to pay for books.

The journalist Glenn Greenwald, who first reported on the documents leaked by Edward J. Snowden, has a deal with Metropolitan Books.

Booksellers who struggled to sell a book by Robert Galbraith are now struggling to get hold of the same book, whose author was revealed to be J. K. Rowling.

A federal judge’s antitrust finding against Apple over e-book prices underscores how much the book industry has changed and bolsters the advantage held by the online retailer.

The new company, Penguin Random House, will control more than 25 percent of the trade book market in the United States.

The Justice Department has claimed that the publishers used Apple as a conduit to communicate with each other; Apple lawyers have sought to portray the conversations as normal business proceedings.

The former congressman, defense secretary and C.I.A. director said his book, bought by Penguin Press, would go behind the scenes of government.

Flash sales have taken hold in the book business, helping older books soar from the backlist to the best-seller list.