Apr 09 2010: The American Booksellers Association announced the winners of the 2010 Indies Choice Book Awards:
Fiction
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (Knopf)
Nonfiction
The Lost City of Z by David Grann (Doubleday)
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Apr 05 2010: HarperStudio, the unusual imprint founded two years ago by Bob Miller, is being shut down and its books and staff will land at other HarperCollins imprints. In its brief life, HarperStudio published mainly nonfiction, offered low advances with profit-sharing and tried ...
Apr 05 2010: Publishers Weekly (the US's leading publishing industry mag) has been acquired by PWxyz, LLC, a newly formed company headed by one-time PW publisher George Slowik. The new company will retain all of PW's editorial, art, and advertising employees and the magazine will ...
Apr 02 2010: Early reviews of the iPad are starting to come in. 'The Week' summarizes and links to a handful
Apr 01 2010: Publishers are placing big bets that Apple's iPad will kick-start a commercially viable transition to digital magazines and newspapers.
Mar 25 2010: Harold W. McGraw Jr., who as leader of McGraw-Hill, his family’s publishing business, helped build it into a billion-dollar enterprise in the 1970s and ’80s, died on Wednesday at his home in Darien, Conn. He was 92 .
Mar 24 2010: Margaret Atwood and Amitav Ghosh will share $1 million as recipients of the 2010 Dan David Prize, awarded annually for achievements in science, technology and culture.
Three prizes of US$ 1 million each are annually awarded for achievements having an outstanding ...
Mar 24 2010: Every other year IBBY (The International Board on Books for Young People) presents the Hans Christian Andersen Awards to a living author and illustrator whose complete works have made a lasting contribution to children's literature.
This year's winners are:
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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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