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The growing market in 'ghost writers' at Twitter

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-...

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African-American historian John Hope Franklin dies aged 94

Mar 26 2009: John Hope Franklin, a prolific scholar of African-American history who profoundly influenced thinking about slavery and Reconstruction while helping to further the civil rights struggle, died Wednesday in Durham, N.C. He was 94.

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One-third of British find the book world too intimidating

Mar 25 2009: A British report indicates that publishers, retailers and librarians are missing out on a potential market of 20m consumers (about 1/3 of the British population) because the book world is too intimidating.

In many lower-income non-professional families, books were ...

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Fictionwise Launches Free eReader E-book App for Blackberry

Mar 24 2009: Publishers Weekly reports that Fictionwise, the e-book etailor recently acquired by Barnes & Noble, has launched a beta version of its popular eReader app for the Blackberry smartphone. Fictionwise’s 50,000 title catalog is already available for the iPhone, Palm, ...

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Women more avid readers than men

Mar 24 2009: A study of reading habits showed almost half of women are 'page turners' who finish a book soon after starting it compared to only 26 per cent of men. The survey of 2,000 British adults also found those who take a long time to read books and only managed one or two a...

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Sony make half-million books available for free

Mar 19 2009: Aiming to outdo Amazon, Sony has done a deal with Google to make a half million copyright-free books available for its Reader device, a rival to the Amazon Kindle. The books are all out of copyright having been written before 1923.

Sony is hoping that the partnership...

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Half of UK under 16s prefer to read than spend time on social networks

Mar 18 2009: Almost half the UK's under-16s would rather read books than speak to their friends on social networks or other online sites - according to recent research.

The research was commissioned by the UK TV program, The Book Show, produced by Sky Arts. The poll surveyed 2000 ...

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US book sales rise slightly in January

Mar 16 2009: Shelf Awareness reports that January bookstore sales in the USA were $2.286 billion, up $1 million over January 2008, according to preliminary estimates from the Census Bureau. This marked the first gain for bookstore sales in four months.

The slight gain was all the...

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