Sep 16 2010: Yet to be confirmed but the word on the street is that Oprah's next book club pick is Jonathan Franzen's Freedom..
Sep 10 2010: Thomas Guinzburg, an editor and publisher who helped create The Paris Review, the enduring lion of American literary magazines, and who later became president of Viking Press, the publishing house founded by his father, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 84.
Sep 10 2010: Defense Department officials are negotiating to buy and destroy all 10,000 copies of the first printing of Operation Dark Heart, an Afghan war memoir they say contains intelligence secrets... the only catch is that some copies have already been released to reviewers ...
Sep 10 2010: At a time when book coverage is gradually disappearing from newspapers nationwide, Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal plans to launch a weekly book review within the next few weeks as a pull out section for the Weekend Journal...
Sep 07 2010: The shortlist for the Man Booker Prize has been announced:
The Long Song by Andrea Levy
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Room by Emma Donoghue
C by Tom McCarthy
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
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Sep 07 2010: Reed Exhibitions, parent company of BookExpo America, is in discussion with the American Library Association (ALA) about taking over the organization's two main meetings--the June annual convention and the January midwinter meeting.
The process is far enough along ...
Aug 26 2010: Publishers Weekly, one of the USA's oldest publishing industry magazines, today announced that they are accepting registrations from self-published authors who want to appear in its December self-publishing supplement. Cost of inclusion is $149 with a number of added ...
Aug 23 2010: Stieg Larsson would not have approved of the renaming of the opening book to his Millennium trilogy from "Men Who Hate Women" to "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", the late author's partner has claimed saying, "The theme of all three books is the subjugation of women, ...
To make a library it takes two volumes and a fire. Two volumes and a fire, and interest. The interest alone will ...
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