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Jul 13 2009: Publishers Weekly's annual survey of publishing employees, published this week, paints a grim picture of the book industry, reporting that a 70% of the more than 1,400 respondents saw hiring freezes at their companies.
Jul 10 2009: Amazon have recently applied for patents that will enable them to run embedded ads on their $299+ Kindle electronic book reader. Although there's no sign that they plan on implementing the patent anytime soon, assuming its granted - their application indicates how they...
Jul 09 2009: A 44-year project to create the world's largest thesaurus is near completion. With 800,000 meanings for 600,000 words organized into more than 230,000 categories and subcategories, the thesaurus is twice the size of Roget's version.
It contains almost the entire ...
Jul 09 2009: The Library of Congress, organizer and sponsor of the National Book Festival, has announced an author line-up that includes John Grisham, David Baldacci, Jodi Picoult, Kate DiCamillo, Rick Riordan, Jeannette Walls, John Irving, Lee Child and many more. The event, that ...
Jul 08 2009: Playboy has acquired the first serial rights to The Original of Laura, the final, unfinished novella of the late Vladmir Nabokov.
For years, Nabokov's son Dmitri indicated that, per his father's dying wishes, Laura would never see the light of day. Then last spring ...
Jul 07 2009: The Daily Beast reports on the growing phenomenon of authors marketing themselves directly to book clubs by chatting with, sometimes, hundreds of book clubs by phone. A process that author and "Buzz, Balls and Hype" blogger MJ Rose describes as "Suicide by Bookclub" (...
Jul 02 2009: Publishers Lunch reports that while there are a number of issues of contention between the late Stieg Larsson's heirs and his partner of thirty years Eva Gabrielsson, one matter has unfortunately been resolved. Both parties say "we have an agreement not to publish" the ...
Jul 02 2009: J.D. Salinger has scored a legal victory in his attempt to block publication of 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye by Fredrik Colting under the pseudonym John David California. Lawyers for Salinger contended that the novel was derivative of Catcher in the Rye and ...
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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