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Mar 24 2008: Barnes & Noble has launched Quamut.com, a how-to Web site offering free online guides on more than 1,000 topics. Quamut, pronounced kwomut, is Latin for "how to". The company simultaneously publishes all content in two formats: as HTML online and as downloadable PDFs;...
Mar 24 2008: The finalists for this year's Hugo Awards have been published. The list includes Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union, which has also been nominated for an Edgar and a Nebula. The Hugos, first awarded in 1953, recognize excellence in the field of science ...
Mar 21 2008: The annual BookSense awards have been announced with little in the way of surprises. Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns won for fiction; Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver for nonfiction; and The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick and ...
Mar 21 2008: British memoirist Sebastian Horsley's book tour ended before it started this week when he was denied entry into the U.S. Horsley, who boasts of having consorted with 1,000 prostitutes, was turned away on the grounds of "moral turpitude". The irony of this happening ...
Mar 21 2008: Author Jon Hassler, who chronicled the foibles of small-town life in Staggerford, Grand Opening and other novels after starting his career late in life, has died. He was 74.
Mar 20 2008: A rare 1937 first issue of the first edition of Tolkien's The Hobbit sold at Bonhams today for 60,000 UK pounds (~ US$120,000), going for twice its pre-sale estimate. The copy, inscribed by the author with a message of thanks to his friend Elaine Griffiths, who helped ...
Mar 20 2008: Facing a liquidity crisis, unable to borrow in today's nervous credit markets, with a plunging stock that valued the entire company at about $400 million yesterday (and less today), Borders has suspended its quarterly dividend and enlisted JPMorgan and Merrill Lynch to ...
Mar 20 2008: The Scotsman reports that a rare copy of the first Harry Potter book fetched almost 4000 UK pounds (~$8000) at auction after being sold by a library for 2 pounds (~$4). A total of 20 Harry Potter books were sold for a combined 36,560 pounds (over $70,000)
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