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Apr 06 2009: New York Times Co. has told employees at the Boston Globe it is prepared to shut down the newspaper within a month unless it gets labor concessions - a move that reflects both the financial pressure the Times Co. is under and the depths to which its once-prized property...
Apr 03 2009: On the week that President Barack Obama paid his first official visit to the UK at the G20 summit, he left with an unexpected piece of luggage - a British Book Awards Nibbie as the winner of the Biography of the Year for Dreams From My Father. Other winners include:
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Mar 31 2009: The Daily Telegraph (UK) reports on research that shows that just six minutes of reading can reduce stress levels by 2/3rds:
"Subjects only needed to read, silently, for six minutes to slow down the heart rate and ease tension in the muscles, he found. In fact it got...
Mar 31 2009: To the relief of book publishers, it appears that Borders has been given another 12 months to sort itself out financially with the announcement that leading shareholder and lender of last resort Pershing Square has extended their $42.5 million loan until April 1, 2010 -...
Mar 30 2009: Galley Cat reports on the ongoing problems with pirated copies of books such as J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Ken Follett's World Without End appearing on the popular file-sharing site, Scribd.
Mar 30 2009: The New York Times has seen a fall in stock price from $50 in 2001 to $4 today. Mark Bowden, writing in Vanity Fair, offers an extensive profile of the newspaper and its fourth generation publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.
Mar 27 2009: The Diagram Prize for oddest book title of the year has been won by "The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage Frais". "Baboon Metaphysics" and "Curbside Consultation of the Colon" finished second and third.
Mar 27 2009: The New York Times reports on the new and fast growing market for "ghost Twitterers" to write the pithy 140 Twitter postings for famous people.
As the NY Times puts it, "The famous, of course, have turned to ghostwriters for autobiographies and other acts of self-...
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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