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Palin Bow-Out: Boon to Her Book Sales?
Time - 10 Hours ago
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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Gunning out at Foyles as iconic bookshop restructures management
The Bookseller - 102 Minutes ago
Foyles' head of buying Kate Gunning is to leave the independent bookshop after a restructure of its middle management. Sam Husain, chief executive of Foyles, said that the 'rationalisation' was prompted
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Erotica on hold for Black Lace and Nexus at Virgin
The Bookseller - 102 Minutes ago
Virgin Books will not publish any new titles in its Black Lace and Nexus erotica lists next year, although the publisher has said the imprints will remain 'active'. John Sadler, m.d. of Virgin Books,
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Headline acquires "Saturday Kitchen" wine man Smith
The Bookseller - 102 Minutes ago
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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Swann defends Penguin deal, BAA says WHS will 'evaluate'
The Bookseller - 102 Minutes ago
W H Smith chief executive Kate Swann has defended the exclusive travel book deal with Penguin in a letter to the British Guild of Travel Writers (BGTW). Airports operator BAA has also written to the Guild
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Borders UK launches £189 e-book reader
The Bookseller - 103 Minutes ago
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
The Bookseller - 103 Minutes ago
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
The Bookseller - 103 Minutes ago
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
The Bookseller - 103 Minutes ago
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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Penguin's Shore moves to group role at Pearson
The Bookseller - 2 Hours ago
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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Penguin to publish Vikram Seth's sequel to A Suitable Boy
The Bookseller - 2 Hours ago
Penguin UK has acquired A Suitable Girl, the long-awaited sequel to Vikram Seth's 1993 international bestseller . Penguin imprint Hamish Hamilton bought world English language rights (excluding the US)
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Waterstone's and WHS lead race for Bookseller Awards
The Bookseller - 2 Hours ago
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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London Stock Exchange Revamps Order Book Pricing
Advanced Trading - 7 Hours ago
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
London Stock Exchange tariff change sends its shares lower City A.M.
London Stock Exchange Drops Windows System PC World
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Radio Talk Show on Happiness and Success Inspires Self-Published Book
PR-GB - 8 Hours ago
Share Your Mission focuses on the lives of radio talk show guests to give encouragement to those seeking meaning and purpose in life. Based on the international radio talk show Share Your Mission, the
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Amazon Wants Patent For Inserting Ads Into Books
Slashdot - 12 Hours ago
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'Michael Jackson: The World Says Goodbye to the King of Pop' Available Today at
Interest!ALERT - 11 Hours ago
128-Page Book of Tributes & Memories from Friends and Fans Worldwide ATLANTA, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- He was named 'The Most Successful Entertainer of All Time' by The Guinness Book of World Records.
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Tributes to Jackson spring up in unlikely locales High Point Enterprise
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MicroStrategyâ??s BI reports available on Amazon Kindle DX
Computer Business Review - 7/3/2009
MicroStrategy has announced the availability of its business intelligence reports, dashboards and scorecards on the Amazon Kindle DX. The company said that its BI users can store, retrieve and review
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Bookmarks: Literary library trucks, Catcher in the Rye sequel banned, the rest of
National Post - 7/3/2009
Kansas City libraries have been advertising fake literary businesses on their library trucks. From the If delivery trucks driving around Johnson County emblazoned with ads for peculiar businesses prompt
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Kindle DX: A little ungainly
MSNBC - 7/2/2009
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
Chicago Tribune - 7/2/2009
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
Variety - 7/2/2009
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
Wired News - 7/2/2009
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
Tehran Times - 15 Hours ago
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
Individual.com - 17 Hours ago
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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COHA Research Fellow Brian Nelson Publishes Book, Begins Lecture Circuit
Council on Hemispheric Affairs - 20 Hours ago
Brian Nelsonâ��s New Book on Venezuela COHA Research Fellow Brian Nelsonâ��s recently published book, entitled The Silence And The Scorpion (The Coup Against Ch�¡vez and the Making of A Modern
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