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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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 below:
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...
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
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