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Jun 16 2010: Overall, April book sales in the USA were up 24.8 percent compared to April last year with significant gains in adult hardcovers (up 49 percent) and ebooks (up 127.4 percent). All book sales for the year to date are up almost 12 percent.
Jun 15 2010: The vetting scheme that, in its original proposal, would have required one in four British adults to go through a government approval process before being allowed contact with children and vulnerable adults, has been scrapped by the new British government as draconian. ...
Jun 09 2010: Barbara Kingsolver has won the Orange Prize for Fiction for The Lacuna. The Orange Prize carries a 30,000 UK pound award (about US$48,000) award, and winners receive a bronze figurine nicknamed the "Bessie."
According to Daisy Goodwin, chair of judges, The Lacuna ...
Jun 08 2010: Apple announced today that iBooks, its electronic reader application and e-bookstore, is getting new new features, including the ability to make notes, create bookmarks and read PDF documents. The app, which debuted on the iPad, is also coming to the iPhone and iPod ...
Jun 08 2010: Following up on a survey of readers first presented at the Winter Institute in San Jose, California, Jack McKeown, director of new business development for Verso Digital--and now a bookstore owner --presented findings at BEA based on the initial surveys as well as ...
Jun 03 2010: The New Yorker has chosen its "20 Under 40" list of fiction writers worth watching. The last list was published in 1999 and included future literary stars such as Jhumpa Lahiri, Nathan Englander and Junot Díaz; plus the likes of Michael Chabon, Jeffrey Eugenides, and ...
Jun 01 2010: Wallander author Henning Mankell is one of nine Swedes being held in Israel after landing from the aid flotilla attacked by Israeli commandos yesterday morning
May 25 2010: Martin Gardner, who teased brains with math puzzles in Scientific American for a quarter-century and who indulged his own restless curiosity by writing more than 70 books on topics as diverse as magic, philosophy and the nuances of Alice in Wonderland, died Saturday in ...
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