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"The Finkler Question" wins Booker Prize

Oct 12 2010: The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson has won this year's Man Booker Prize. More about the book at BookBrowse (link below):

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Fifth novel in Stieg Larsson's "trilogy" confirmed

Oct 12 2010: Rumors of a completed novel to follow Steig Larsson's first three Millennium series novels (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo etc), has been confirmed, but it doesn't look like it will be publishing anytime soon as the book resides on a computer belonging to Larsson's ...

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Orange Award for New Writers now a year long promotion

Oct 12 2010: The UK's Orange Prize is dropping their award for new writers, in favor of digital promotions and an online book club that they say will "be able to support a greater number of first time writers in a year long campaign."

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Excitement returns to Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association trade show

Oct 12 2010: An atmosphere of excitement and optimism missing in recent years permeated the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association fall trade show held in Portland, Oreg. on October 7-9

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Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel

Oct 07 2010: Mario Vargas Llosa's publisher at Faber (UK) has hailed the 2010 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature as "a writer of enormous range, passion and insight".

Lee Brackstone spoke to The Bookseller (the UK's leading publishing industry magazine) after the Peruvian ...

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C by Tom McCarthy favorite to win Booker Prize

Oct 07 2010: UK bookmaker Ladbrokes has halted betting on this year's Booker after C by Tom McCarthy received a flurry of bets setting "alarm bells ringing". At William Hill, bets are still open, but Tom McCarthy's novel is still the 10/11 favorite.

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Giller Prize Shortlist Announced

Oct 06 2010: The Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada's richest literary award, announced the finalists for their 2010 prize this morning.

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Barnes & Noble officially launches self publishing arm - PubIt

Oct 05 2010: Barnes & Noble has officially launched PubIt, it's first foray into self-publishing, which will allow publishers and authors to distribute e-titles through BN.com. B&N says that "tens of thousands" of titles are already available from "thousands" of publishers and ...

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