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Feb 16 2011: Margaret K. McElderry, the grande dame of children's book publishing, has died aged 98, having continued to edit books into her 90s. According to the New York Times, as a book editor she "employed shrewd intuition, critical acumen and a nurturing way with authors to ...
Feb 16 2011: Citing a lack of capital and a desire to "reposition itself successfully for the long term," Borders Group has filed for bankruptcy owing $1.29 billion, at least $230 million of which is owed to book publishers and distributors. It's supposed assets are listed at $1....
Feb 14 2011: J K Rowling was awarded the "Outstanding British Contibution to Cinema" at the British Academy Film Awards (Baftas) last night as "The King’s Speech" swept the boards...
Feb 14 2011: As early as today or tomorrow, Borders will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, close between 150 and 250 of its 500 superstores and 165 smaller stores and lay off thousands of its 19,500 employees, the Wall Street Journal reported. Shelf Awareness analyzes ...
Feb 08 2011: A former merchant sailor whose children's books sold millions worldwide has died aged 71.
Brian Jacques' Redwall series of books were translated into 29 languages and sold 20m globally.
He died after a heart attack at the weekend and leaves a wife and two grown up...
Feb 08 2011: Owners of latest generation Kindle and Kindle 3G will be getting new features soon including the ability to share notes about their books publicly, real page numbers that correspond to the print copy, and a 'before you go' feature that lets them immediately rate each ...
Feb 04 2011: H.B. Fenn, Canada's largest book distributor and owner since 2004 of Key Porter Books, has filed for bankruptcy.
Feb 03 2011: Charles Sellier - creator of the book, film and TV series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams - has died aged 67.
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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