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Sale of Waterstones to hedge fund likely to complete by end of April

Apr 09 2018: UK bookstore chain Waterstones will likely be sold to hedge fund Elliott Advisors by the end of April, the end of the store's fiscal year, according to the Bookseller, which cited "a source with knowledge of the situation." Neither Waterstones nor Elliott Advisors has ...

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Amazon Study Reveals Explosive Growth of Third-Party Sales, Sales Tax Avoidance

Apr 05 2018: A new report from the American Booksellers Association (ABA) and Civic Economics reveals the continuing — and increasing — loss of jobs and essential state and municipal revenue as a result of the growing retail dominance of Amazon.com. The report documents both Amazon’...

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Joan Silber's 'Improvement' wins PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Apr 04 2018: Joan Silber has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for her novel Improvement (which won the NBCC Award last month.)

All five finalists (Silber, Hernán Díaz, Samantha Hunt, Achy Obejas and Jesmyn Ward) will read from their work at the ceremony on May 5 at the Folger ...

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Canadian Independent Bookstore Day

Apr 02 2018: When U.S. booksellers celebrate Independent Bookstore Day on April 28, their neighbors to the north will be taking part in Canadian Independent Bookstore Day, a "new look" version of Authors for Indies Day, which was launched in 2015 and had announced last fall that ...

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Sing, Unburied, Sing wins Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

Mar 30 2018: The winners of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards for "literature that confronts racism and examines diversity" are:
Fiction: Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward
Nonfiction: Bunk, by Kevin Young
Poetry: In the Language of My Captor, by Shane McCrae
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Anita Shreve, best-selling author of 'The Pilot’s Wife,' dies at 71

Mar 30 2018: Anita Shreve, author of 20 books including The Pilot's Wife and The Weight of Water, died of cancer Thursday at home in southern New Hampshire, she was 71. She had announced her illness almost a year ago,writing on Facebook: "This is a hard post to write. I have so been...

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Jacqueline Woodson wins $600,000 Astrid Lindgren prize

Mar 27 2018: Jacqueline Woodson, author of 30 books including the National Book Prize winner Brown Girl Dreaming (a memoir of her childhood written in verse) has won The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world's largest prize for children's writing. She will receive five million ...

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Tracy K. Smith Gets Second Term as U.S. Poet Laureate

Mar 26 2018: Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has appointed Tracy K. Smith to serve a second term as the nation's 22nd poet laureate. During her second year, Smith plans to expand her outreach efforts to rural communities and unveil a new anthology to be published in the fall.

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