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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks wins BookBrowse Best Book Award

Jan 12 2011: 4045 votes were cast by BookBrowse subscribers to decide the 2010 BookBrowse Award winners ... and the winners are:

Best Book of 2010:The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Best Debut of 2010: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

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J.D. Salinger Estate, Swedish Author Settle Copyright Suit

Jan 11 2011: The estate of J.D. Salinger and Swedish author and publisher Fredrik Colting have entered into a consent agreement to end the copyright battle over Colting's book 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye - a purported sequel to Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. The ...

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Newbery Medal won by first novelist Clare Vanderpool for Moon over Manifest

Jan 10 2011: Clare Vanderpool has won the John Newbery Medal, awarded for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature for her first novel, Moon over Manifest.

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Children's book author, Dick King-Smith, dies

Jan 06 2011: Dick King-Smith, creator of more than 100 wonderful books for children, including The Sheep Pig, has died aged 88.

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Amazon withdraws ebook explaining how to manipulate its sales rankings

Jan 06 2011: The author of an ebook that gives details on how easily Amazon's bestseller rankings can be manipulated has accused the online retail giant of "hypocrisy" after the title was temporarily removed from the website over the new year.

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Edmund de Waal leads Costa book awards finalists

Jan 05 2011: Best-selling novelist Maggie O'Farrell has won her first major literary prize, the British Costa novel award, for The Hand That First Held Mine putting her in the running for the Book of the Year Award which will be announced January 25.

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Borders in trouble, delays payment to publishers

Jan 04 2011: Borders Group, which has suffered several years of sales declines, layoffs, store closings, a revolving door at the executive level, a plummeting stock price and unsuitable ownership, hit a new low this past week: the company began delaying payments to some suppliers, ...

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Lending Kindle Books

Dec 30 2010: Amazon has now made it possible for owners of some Kindle books to lend a book for a one-time period of two weeks (during which time the lender cannot read the book). The borrowed book can be read on a range of devices. Not all books can be loaned - the decision to ...

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