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Jul 22 2008: Publishers Weekly's regular "By The Numbers" olumn focuses on children's books, noting that over 900 million children's books sold in the USA in 2007 for a total market value of $3.7 billion. The number of new titles and revisions published in 2007 was 30,...
Jul 22 2008: Publishers Weekly reports on the imminent closure of the standalone Sunday book review section in the Los Angeles Times. Nancy Sullivan, executive director of corporate communications at the paper, confirmed that the book review staff has been cut from five to three and...
Jul 21 2008: The Guardian reports on the modest feud between Salman Rushdie and Malcolm Gluck. Rushdie recently claimed to have signed 1,000 copies of The Enchantress of Florence in 57 minutes (full signatures, not just initials), breaking the previous book signing record held by ...
Jul 18 2008: Independent bookstores in the USA and their customers are invited to take part in a unique reading experience this coming October. Booksellers will host 24-hour reading marathons in their stores, designed to highlight the importance of reading to our culture, as well ...
Jul 18 2008: Known for her sly, compact poems that revel in wordplay and internal rhymes, Kay Ryan has been named the 16th poet laureate of the U.S.
Jul 15 2008: Publishing News, one of Britain's leading book trade publications, is to cease publication with effect July 25. Founded in 1979, the magazine has been hit by the same problems that have affected all magazines and newspapers, as advertisers have shifted increasing ...
Jul 14 2008: Violence has driven many of the well educated middle-classes out of Iraq, but there are some that have stayed behind, such as Nabil al-Hayawi, whose Renaissance bookshop has just reopened, having risen from the ashes a year after a car bomb killed Hayawi's son and ...
Jul 14 2008: Bookshop Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, California have sold nearly 64,000 George Bush Countdown Clocks in the past two years. Now they've introduced a new clock - the Countdown to President Obama Hope Clock. The clock retails at $9.95 with 10% of the purchase priced going ...
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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