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RIP Eric Lomax, River Kwai prisoner who forgave his torturer, and recorded his experience in "Railway Man"
Oct 11 2012:   Eric Lomax, a former British soldier who was tortured by the Japanese while he was a prisoner during World War II and half a century later forgave one of his tormentors - an experience he recounted in a memoir, The Railway Man (1996) - died on Monday in Berwick-upon-Tweed, England. He was...
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Future of Canadian Booksellers Association in the balance
Oct 10 2012:   Members of the Canadian Booksellers Association are being asked to decide on the future direction of the association at its upcoming annual general meeting.

"We feel it’s crucial for the CBA in some form to continue to exist and for booksellers to have a national voice," says...
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National Book Award finalists announced
Oct 10 2012:   The finalists for the National Book Awards have been announced. The winners will be named on November 14:

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Junot Diaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King
Louise Erdrich, The Round House
Ben Fountain, Billy...
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Writer Nguyen Chi Thien, Vietnamese dissident writer who spent 30 years in prison, dies aged 73
Oct 09 2012:   Mr. Thien, a dissident writer who has been called the Solzhenitsyn of Vietnam for the sheaves of poems he wrote opposing the Communist government there - and for the prolonged imprisonment, including torture and solitary confinement, that his efforts earned him - died on Tuesday in Santa Ana,...
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Woman's Prize for Fiction (formerly Orange Prize) to be privately funded in 2013
Oct 09 2012:   The Woman's Prize for Fiction, formerly sponsored by mobile phone company Orange, will be privately funded in 2013 with donors including Christopher Foyle, Joanna Trollope, e-book site Bilbary, Cherie Blair and Martha Lane Fox. Kate Mosse, chair of the Women¹s Prize for Fiction board, said, "We...
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Microsoft and Barnes & Noble seal agreement
Oct 05 2012:   Barnes & Noble and Microsoft have officially completed the strategic partnership they announced at the end of April. The partnership, temporarily called Newco, has the permanent name Nook Media and is a B&N subsidiary that comprises B&N's digital and college businesses and "will continue to have a...
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Publishers and Google reach settlement after seven year lawsuit
Oct 04 2012:   The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Google today announced a settlement agreement that will provide access to publishers' in-copyright books and journals digitized by Google for its Google Library Project. The dismissal of the lawsuit ends seven years of litigation.

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Junot Dias and Dinaw Mengestu among the 22 recipients of this year's MacArthur grants worth $500,000 each
Oct 02 2012:   Authors Junot Díaz and Dinaw Mengestu are among the twenty-two people to be awarded MacArthur "genius" grants. The MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked...
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Amazon ships Kindle Paperwhite
Oct 01 2012:   Amazon is shipping its new Kindle Paperwhite device today. It is a touchscreen high contrast eReader with a built in light for reading in the dark - similar to B&N's Nook with GlowLight that launched in April. Amazon's Paperwhite retails for US$119, as does the Nook...
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A Dozen Fantastic Fiction Recommendations for October
Oct 01 2012:   Tuesday October 2nd is one of the biggest publishing days of the year, if not the biggest, with hundreds of new titles hitting the shelves. None of us have time to read all of them, not even to read about them; so here, for your reading pleasure are half a dozen of the most notable, plus another...
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Banned Books Week "celebrates" 30th Year!
Oct 01 2012:   Banned Books Week (Sept 30-Oct 6) is celebrating, for want of a better term, its 30th year! For a short history of book banning in the USA and links to this year's Banned Books Week events and list of banned and challenged books, please click the link...
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Five finalists of the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize announced
Oct 01 2012:   The following five books have been shortlisted for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The winner of the C$50,000 will be announced at a ceremony on October 30. Fifty-one publishing houses submitted 142 titles for consideration, the three person jury consists of novelists Gary Shteyngart and Roddy...
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