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Dec 17 2008: A BBC survey suggests that nearly half of all men and one-third of women have lied about what they have read to try to impress friends or potential partners. But they're not necessarily lying about books they claim to have read; 74% of teenagers said that they've have ...
Dec 16 2008: The drumbeat of grim news from the publishing industry continues a Macmillan, the company that operates imprints including Farrar, Straus and Giroux, St. Martin's Press and Henry Holt, laid off about 4% of its staff and restructured its children's book division. Layoffs...
Dec 15 2008: During October, bookstore sales slipped for the second month in a row, falling 5.6%, according to preliminary estimates from the Census Bureau. In September, bookstore sales fell 4.5% compared to the same period a year earlier. For the year to date, bookstore sales have...
Dec 10 2008: Despite reaching near-record audiences, NPR say it will be reducing its workforce by 7% and cutting expenses to compensate for the sharp decline in current and projected revenues from corporate underwriting. A significant number of the personnel cuts result from the ...
Dec 10 2008: After almost a year of trying to sell their magazine unit, which includes Publishers Weekly, Reed Elsevier announced "it has terminated discussions with potential bidders for Reed Business Information ("RBI"). In view of the recent deterioration in macro-economic ...
Dec 09 2008: 2008 Nobel laureate JMG le Clezio gave his acceptance speech on December 8 in which he warned of the dangers of information poverty and called for publishers to increase their efforts to put books in the hands of people around the world.
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Dec 05 2008: Three Percent editor Chad Post recently announced their list of 2008 best translated books.
Three Percent launched in the summer of 2007 with the goal of becoming a destination for readers, editors, and translators interested in finding out about modern and ...
Dec 04 2008: The National Retail Federation's good news of a three-percent bump in this year's Black Friday sales was tempered, since many retailers had slashed prices so deeply to reap modest results. Some indie booksellers contacted by BTW enjoyed the upside of an increase in ...
L.A. Women by Ella Berman
Two ambitious writers in 1960s LA face betrayal when one writes a novel based on the other's life.
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