Hasta La Creative!

In a year that was monopolized by the “Fifty Shades” erotic novels and knockoffs, e-book sales in fiction rose 42 percent over the year before, to $1.8 billion.

The surviving members of the hip-hop group have signed a deal with Spiegel & Grau for a characteristically eclectic book, with a planned fall 2015 release.

The books from the actor, written with a co-author, will be aimed at middle-grade students and published by Random House.

Self-publishing is expanding beyond first-time writers who can’t get deals, as big names like the playwright and author David Mamet are choosing this route, another sign that digital disruption is reshaping the publishing market.

The publishing world — stinging after a 2012 in which the Pulitzer Prize board did not bestow a fiction award — hopes for a winner in 2013.

Amazon’s purchase of Goodreads, a social media site built around sharing books, would give the online bookseller more power in determining which authors get exposure.

The former secretary of state in the George W. Bush administration will examine the creation of democracy, drawing upon her career and personal life.

First Book, a nonprofit that promotes literacy among children in low-income communities, will give two awards through its Stories for All project to publishers offering multicultural books.

Leon Leyson was 10 when the Germans invaded Poland, but was saved, along with some members of his family, by Oskar Schindler, who employed them in his factories.