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Aug 26 2008: Book social networking site Shelfari has announced that Amazon, already an investor, is buying the company.
Amazon also has a minority stake in LibraryThing which they acquired as part of the recent AbeBooks purchase a few weeks ago.
Aug 18 2008: Up to 12 bidders submitted first-round offers for Reed Elsevier's Reed Business Information division (parent company of Publishers Weekly and many other publications), which is valued at between $1bn and $1.25bn.
Aug 17 2008: With the title Unfit for Publication, Senator Barack Obama's campaign has issued a 40-page rebuttal to The Obama Nation, authored by Jerome Corsi, who co-authored Unfit for Command, part of the "Swift Boating" campaign against John Kerry in 2004.
Aug 17 2008: Salman Rushdie strongly criticized his publisher for pulling a historical novel about the prophet Muhammad and his child bride over concerns about angering Muslims.
Rushdie, whose The Satanic Verses led to a death decree in 1989 from Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah ...
Aug 13 2008: Yesterday,
The New York Times gave front page coverage to Jerome Corsi's new book The Obama Nation saying:
"In its timing, authorship and style of reporting,
the book is strikingly reminiscent of the one Mr. Corsi wrote with John O’Neill about Mr. Kerry, ...
Aug 11 2008: To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year, the UK trade publishing magazine, The Bookseller, has announced the "Diagram of Diagrams" – a public vote to find the oddest book title of the past 30 years.
The ...
Aug 08 2008: The Edinburgh Book Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. It was founded as a biennial event and has become the largest festival of its kind in the world. This year's festival runs from the 9th to 25th August with appearances by Sean Connery, Charlie ...
Aug 08 2008: The Daily Telegraph (UK) reports on the 800-word Harry Potter prequel by JK Rowling (written for a charity fund raiser) that became the fastest-selling short story of all time when the entire print run of 100,000 copies was snapped up in a single day.
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