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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.
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 ...
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, ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Mar 16 2009: Despite being mired in recession sales of books in Europe are up - although sales are flat in Britain, they are up in much of Continental Europe.
For example, the number of books sold in France rose 2 percent in December from a year earlier and 2.4 percent in January...
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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