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Aug 27 2008: The Wall Street Journal reports that in the second quarter (to Aug 2), sales at Borders Group bookstores fell 6.9% to $758.5 million with a net loss of $9.2 million, an improvement on the net loss of $25 million this time last year. The company said that though US ...
Aug 27 2008: Dave Freeman, co-author of 100 Things to Do Before You Die: Travel Events You Just Can't Miss (1999), which started a trend of similar books, died last week after falling and hitting his head. He was 47. Freeman's co-author, Neil Teplica, says, "you should live ...
Aug 26 2008: Book social networking site Shelfari has announced that Amazon, already an investor, is buying the company.
Amazon also has a minority stake in LibraryThing which they acquired as part of the recent AbeBooks purchase a few weeks ago.
Aug 18 2008: Up to 12 bidders submitted first-round offers for Reed Elsevier's Reed Business Information division (parent company of Publishers Weekly and many other publications), which is valued at between $1bn and $1.25bn.
Aug 17 2008: With the title Unfit for Publication, Senator Barack Obama's campaign has issued a 40-page rebuttal to The Obama Nation, authored by Jerome Corsi, who co-authored Unfit for Command, part of the "Swift Boating" campaign against John Kerry in 2004.
Aug 17 2008: Salman Rushdie strongly criticized his publisher for pulling a historical novel about the prophet Muhammad and his child bride over concerns about angering Muslims.
Rushdie, whose The Satanic Verses led to a death decree in 1989 from Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah ...
Aug 13 2008: Yesterday,
The New York Times gave front page coverage to Jerome Corsi's new book The Obama Nation saying:
"In its timing, authorship and style of reporting,
the book is strikingly reminiscent of the one Mr. Corsi wrote with John O’Neill about Mr. Kerry, ...
Aug 11 2008: To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year, the UK trade publishing magazine, The Bookseller, has announced the "Diagram of Diagrams" – a public vote to find the oddest book title of the past 30 years.
The ...
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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