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May 13 2008: To celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Booker Prize, six authors are in the running to win a one-off award and be titled The Best of the Booker. The six authors are Pat Barker, Peter Carey, JM Coetzee, JG Farrell, Nadine Gordimer and Salman Rushdie. Voting will end ...
May 12 2008: 88-year-old Doris Lessing told BBC Radio 4's Front Row (May 12) that winning the 2007 Nobel Prize has been a 'bloody disaster' because the increased media interest in her has meant that writing a full novel was next to impossible. She's currently working on a partly ...
May 09 2008: May 10th is the 75th anniversary of the day when the Nazis burned thousands of books banned by Germany's National Socialist regime on the orders of Joseph Goebbels, Minister for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda. AbeBooks marks the anniversary with interviews with ...
May 09 2008: Peter Olson, who has been chief executive of Random House since 1998, is leaving his post in a few weeks. The news has stirred a debate amongst critics as to whether his departure is a result of declining job performance or changes in the publishing industry. "The Week...
May 06 2008: What Kids Are Reading: The Book-Reading Habits of Students in American Schools, from Renaissance Learning, claims to be the first comprehensive report to provide detailed information about the books school children are actually reading. The freely available report lists...
May 05 2008: The London Times reports on Shakespeare and Company, an English language bookstore in Paris, staffed by fresh-faced and optimistic twenty-somethings from around the world who, in return for a night's sleep in one of the 11 beds hidden in the bookshop itself, work in the...
May 03 2008: As British publisher Faber and Faber launches a new print on demand imprint, The Guardian (UK) explores the growing world of POD publishing driven by self publishing companies such as Lulu and PublishAmerica.
May 02 2008: The 2008 Edgar Awards were announced last night by Mystery Writers of America. John Hart won the Edgar for Best Novel for Down River. Best First Novel By An American Author went to Tana French for In the Woods. Megan Abbott’s Queenpin won Best Paperback Original; ...
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