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HarperStudio shutting down

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 ...

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Publishers Weekly sold to former PW publisher

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 ...

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Early reviews of the iPad

Apr 02 2010: Early reviews of the iPad are starting to come in. 'The Week' summarizes and links to a handful

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Publishers bet future on iPad

Apr 01 2010: Publishers are placing big bets that Apple's iPad will kick-start a commercially viable transition to digital magazines and newspapers.

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Harold W. McGraw Jr., publisher, dies at 92

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 .

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Margaret Atwood and Amitav Ghosh share $1m prize

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 ...

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David Almond wins Hans Christian Andersen Award

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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Sherman Alexie wins PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Mar 24 2010: Sherman Alexie's War Dances (Grove Press) has been selected as the winner of the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

The PEN/Faulkner Award is America's largest peer-juried prize for fiction in the United States. As winner, Alexie wins $15,000. Each of the four ...

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