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Jan 27 2009: Mediabistro reports on the possible imminent arrival of the Kindle 2.0 based on the press conference booked for Feb 9th in midtown Manhattan. The last time Amazon held a press conference in Manhattan was in November 2007 to unveil the Kindle 1.0.
Jan 27 2009: In a story to warm the hearts of every author who's received a rejection letter or missed a deadline, The Daily Beast reports that Barack Obama received a $100,000 advance from Simon & Schuster to write Dreams From My Father (1995), but when the first two parts of...
Jan 26 2009: Amazon.com has notified its publisher and author clients that it plans to cease offering e-books in the Microsoft Reader and Adobe e-book formats. In the future, the online retailer says it plans to offer only e-books in the Kindle format (for wireless download to its ...
Jan 26 2009: The American Library Association have announced the winners of the Caldecott, Newbery and other awards for the best in children's books.
The John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature has been won by Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard ...
Jan 26 2009: The National Book Critics Circle have announced their 2008 award finalists in fiction, nonfiction, criticism, poetry, biography & autobiography. The winners will be announced in March.
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Aleksandar Hemon,
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Jan 23 2009: Films based on novels have, once again, proved to be a winning formula when it comes to Oscar nominations which include:
Jan 20 2009: Publishers Weekly report on the "e-book rush" with Simon & Schuster and Random House reporting a 400% increase in e-book sales year on year, and the Association of American Publishers reporting that total e-book sales ending September 2008 surged 51% over the same ...
Jan 16 2009: The BBC reports on the death of Sir John Mortimer, author of the Rumpole of the Bailey series. He was 85.
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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