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Battle ahead for 'cigarette pack' books

Jan 16 2008: The Guardian reports on "Tales to Take Your Breath Away" - abridged classic books designed to mimic cigarette packs (the same size, packaged in flip-top cartons with silver foil wrapping and sealed in plastic) that innovative UK publisher and design company Tank started...

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Guardian names top 10 bookstores worldwide

Jan 16 2008: From Buenos Aires to Brussels, Kyoto to Los Angeles, a Guardian reporter names, what he considers to be, the top 10 bookstores in the world. At #5, Borders appears to be the only chain store to make it into the list - but not one of the flagship USA branches, instead ...

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ALA announce winners of Newbery, Caldecott etc

Jan 14 2008: The American Library Association has named its annual winners of more than 10 awards.  Most notably, the Newbery Medal goes to Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices From a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick) and the Caldecott Medal goes to The Invention...

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115 new independent bookstores opened in 2007

Jan 11 2008: In an age when people bemoan the loss of independent bookstores, the American Booksellers Association reports on the 115 new bookstores that opened in 2007. The article includes a list of all the stores and the cities in which they are located.

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Book censorship in Iran increasing

Jan 08 2008: The Guardian (UK) reports on the increasingly draconian censorship of books in Iran which began after the 1979 Islamic revolution, when the government imposed strict rules on book publishing. Since then, the Ministry of Culture has been charged to vet all books before ...

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The revival of the Mutanabi Street book market in Baghdad

Jan 07 2008: The Associated Press reports on the slow revival of the Mutanabi Street book market in Baghdad ten months after a car bomb blamed on al-Qaida militants ripped the market apart, killing at least 38 people and wounding more than 100 (see March 6 2007).

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Banished words list published

Jan 05 2008: Lake Superior State University have published their latest list of banished words, or to be more exact the list of words that contributors which could be banished! The list has been published every New Year's Day for 32 years. This year's list of banished words ...

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Stinky Cheese Man to be National Ambassador for Young People's Literature

Jan 04 2008: The Washington Post reports that Jon Scieszka, author of The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales and the Time Warp Trio series is to be the first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.

"We think it's very important to have an evangelist for ...

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