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Palin Bow-Out: Boon to Her Book Sales?
- 12 Hours ago
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One project that will receive a boost from Sarah Palin's plan to step down as the governor of Alaska is her much-touted autobiography, for which it will provide a hotly anticipated chapter. In May, HarperCollins
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Headline acquires "Saturday Kitchen" wine man Smith
- 3 Hours ago
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Headline has acquired the first title by 'Saturday Kitchen' wine expert Olly Smith, billed as 'an essential guide to matching good food with wine'. Non-fiction publisher Emma Tait bought the book from
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Borders UK launches £189 e-book reader
- 3 Hours ago
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Borders UK has unveiled its new 'cheaper' ebook reader. The Elonex ebook has been launched in all of the bookshop chain's stores today (30th June), and is being marketed at £189 as a cheaper option to
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Borders UK moves into online dating
- 3 Hours ago
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Borders UK has launched an online dating service called 'Happily Ever After' on its website borders.co.uk The new site offers its members the chance to find like-minded people who share similar interests
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Macmillan orders 85k reprint of Jackson biography
- 3 Hours ago
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Macmillan is rushing through a reprint of 85,000 copies of J Randy Taraborrelli's Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness in anticipation of a surge in demand for Jackson products following the pop
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Children's publishers back call to sell more hardbacks
- 3 Hours ago
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Children's publishers have backed a call made by Andersen Press m.d. Klaus Flugge to make more hardback picture books available in the high street. Writing to The Bookseller last month Flugge argued that
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Waterstone's and WHS lead race for Bookseller Awards
- 4 Hours ago
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Waterstone's and will slug it out for bookselling supremacy after being nominated for five awards each in this year's Bookseller Retail Awards. Ten independent bookshops, including a former winner The
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Penguin's Shore moves to group role at Pearson
- 4 Hours ago
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Pearson has appointed Genevieve Shore to the new position of director of digital strategy for the whole group. Effective from 1st September Shore will co-ordinate the company's digital strategy. She has
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London Stock Exchange Revamps Order Book Pricing
- 9 Hours ago
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The London Stock Exchange will introduce a new, simplified fee structure for trading on its U.K. order books beginning September 1, 2009. The new price list includes balance charges applicable to each
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Kindle DX: A little ungainly
- 7/2/2009
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The Kindle DX is not a rock star like its sibling, the Kindle 2. The DX is bigger, more expensive and can be tedious to use. If you're a college student schlepping a half-dozen textbooks in a backpack
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Iran book publisher recalls weeklong ordeal in prison
- 7/2/2009
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The man, mistakenly detained, was crammed into a cell with hundreds of others seized in the election unrest. They were threatened by a pistol-wielding young man and interrogated. Some were beaten. The
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Literary agent taps exec trio
- 7/2/2009
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New York-based literary agency Rob Weisbach Creative Management has tapped a team of senior associates -- Erin L. Cox, David Groff and Jake Bauman -- to maintain and support the company's comprehensive
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Cool-er E-Book Reader Leaves Us Feeling So Very Cold
- 7/2/2009
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Product: Cool-er Manufacturer: Coolreaders Wired Rating: 5 Amazon and Sony opted to go the Neiman Marcus route with their e-book readers, dog-piling extra features, fat content catalogs, and hefty price
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Iranian author nominated for Japanese literary award
- 17 Hours ago
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The prize is dedicated to new writers of serious fiction for a story written in Japanese, the report said adding that Nezam-Mafi is the sixth candidate from a foreign country to be nominated for the award.
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Crisis provokes sharp drop in book sales in Spain
- 19 Hours ago
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The economic crisis has reached the world of culture and is severely affecting the Spanish publishing industry, whose sales fell in the first half of the year by 6 percent relative to the same period
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Amazon Kindle DX
- 7/1/2009
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The new Kindle DX. Photograph: amazon.com The Kindle DX has a lot to live up to. At its grand unveiling in New York in February, Amazon's chief executive, Jeff Bezos, Âsuggested this large ebook reader
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