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Books and the Media By the Numbers
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Sep 06 2008: Publishers Weekly provides top line stats from the Veronis Suhler Stevenson Communications Industry Forecast, including the following:
109: Hours adults spent reading a book for pleasure, 2007
85: Hours persons 12+ spent playing videogames, 2007
1,613: Hours...
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Controversial Jewel of Medina to be published in UK
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Sep 04 2008: Sherry Jones's The Jewel of Medina, a fictional account of the life of Aisha, one of the Prophet Muhammad's wives who married him when she was nine years old, will be published by British publisher Gibson Square next month.
Publisher Martin Rynja says:
"In an open society...
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Sarah Palin, book banner?
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Sep 04 2008: Galleycat reports on Presidential VP nominee Sarah Palin's efforts to fire
librarian Mary Ellen Baker for not banning books that Mayor Palin considered
objectionable. Books that it is said she wanted to ban include:
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine...
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Stephenie Meyer abandons final Twilight book after her draft was illegally posted on the internet
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Sep 02 2008: Stephanie Meyers, author of the blockbuster Twilight series for teens has decided not to complete the last volume in the series, Midnight Sun, but instead has posted a partial draft on her website after one of her drafts was illegally posted on the Internet and virally distributed without...
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'Girl with a Pearl Earring' to open in London theater in late September
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Sep 01 2008: Girl with a Pearl Earring, a new play by David Joss based on the book by Tracy Chevalier will open at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London on 29th September for a limited one month...
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Borders sales fall, stock rises
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Aug 27 2008: The Wall Street Journal reports that in the second quarter (to Aug 2), sales at Borders Group bookstores fell 6.9% to $758.5 million with a net loss of $9.2 million, an improvement on the net loss of $25 million this time last year. The company said that though US superstore sales were down 9%...
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Co-author of '100 Things to Do Before You Die' dies at 47
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Aug 27 2008: Dave Freeman, co-author of 100 Things to Do Before You Die: Travel Events You Just Can't Miss (1999), which started a trend of similar books, died last week after falling and hitting his head. He was 47. Freeman's
co-author, Neil Teplica, says, "you should live every day like it...
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Amazon buys Shelfari
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Aug 26 2008: Book social networking site Shelfari has announced that Amazon, already an investor, is buying the company.
Amazon also has a minority stake in LibraryThing which they acquired as part of the recent AbeBooks purchase a few weeks...
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12 bidders for Publishers Weekly's parent company
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Aug 18 2008: Up to 12 bidders submitted first-round offers for Reed Elsevier's Reed Business Information division (parent company of Publishers Weekly and many other publications), which is valued at between $1bn and...
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