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World's largest thesaurus completed after 44 years

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 ...

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National Book Festival author line-up announced

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 ...

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Playboy acquires first serial rights to Nabokov's novel

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 ...

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The Book-Club Hustlers

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" (...

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Stieg Larsson's heirs agree no fourth book

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 ...

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Judge rules in favor of J.D. Salinger

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 ...

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'E-fairness' fight gathers momentum

Jul 02 2009: The 'e-fairness' battle is gathering momentum. Rhode Island's govenor has now signed the state's budget becoming the second state after New York to require online retailers with affiliates in the state to collect tax on sales made to in-state residents over the ...

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'Lurch', the Espresso Book Machine doing good business in Vermont

Jul 01 2009: The publishing world is closing following the Northshire bookstore in Manchester Center, Vermont - the first independent bookstore to install an Espresso Book Machine, that can print books on demand in a matter of minutes.

The machine, which the staff lovingly ...

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