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Eleven San Francisco bookstores get cash assistance from city

Oct 18 2018: Nearly a dozen San Francisco bookstores received a special gift from the city this week — $103,000 in total grant money to help them through a time when books can be delivered to one’s door at the click of a mouse.

And that’s exactly why the funding is so important, ...

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Random House and Crown Publishing Groups Merge

Oct 18 2018: The Crown Publishing Group has joined the Random House Publishing Group in a newly-combined division reporting to current Random House president and publisher Gina Centrello, who has been named president and publisher of the new supergroup, Penguin Random House US CEO ...

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Milkman by Anna Burns, wins 2018 Man Booker Prize

Oct 16 2018: Anna Burns won the 2018 Man Booker Prize for her third novel, Milkman. Burns, 56, is the first writer from Northern Ireland to win the Booker. She accepted the prize tonight at a lavish ceremony in London.

Burns’s dark, experimental novel is about a bookish 18-year-...

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Alternative Nobel Prize awarded to Guadeloupean author Maryse Condé

Oct 15 2018: The New Academy Prize in Literature 2018 has been awarded to Guadeloupean author Maryse Condé. She is the author of about 20 novels, including I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem; Tales from the Heart: True Stories from My Childhood; Windward Heights; Victoire: My Mother...

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Cyber criminals attempt to steal manuscripts from major publishers

Oct 12 2018: A spate of global phishing scams attempting to access agencies' and publishers' manuscripts and other sensitive information prompted Penguin Random House North America to issue an urgent warning to all staff.

The PRH email was circulated with the subject line "...

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Great American Read Top 10 announced

Oct 12 2018: The deadline is approaching to cast votes for the USA's best-loved novel. To date, more than 3.8 million votes have been cast.

Organizers of The Great American Read have released a Top 10 list of the leading candidates. The winning book will be revealed in the "Grand ...

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The number of self-published books topped 1 million in 2017

Oct 11 2018: The number of self-published books topped the 1 million mark for the first time in 2017, according to Bowker’s annual report on the number of ISBNs that were issued to self-published authors. The total number of ISBNs issued last year rose 28% over 2016, to 1,009,188. ...

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The 2018 National Book Award finalists are in, including a new category for translated literature

Oct 10 2018: The finalists for the National Book Award are in, and this year, there’s more of them than ever before.

For 2018, the National Book Foundation has added a new category for translated literature, in what seems to be an attempt to push back against the idea that ...

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