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Jun 12 2008: According to the Association of American Publishers, sales for 2008 are up 1.3% year on year to $1.71 billion but sales in March declined 11%. Growth came from categories including ebooks, children's and adult paperbacks and children's hardcovers. Losses were recorded...
Jun 12 2008: DeNiro's Game by Rawi Hage is this year's winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the largest and most international prize of its kind. It involves libraries from all corners of the globe, and is open ...
Jun 12 2008: Eliot Asinof, best known as the author of Eight Men Out, about the 1919 Chicago "Black Sox" cheating scandal, died on Tuesday at the age of 88.
Jun 12 2008: J.K. Rowling's "storycard" prequel to the Harry Potter series (written purely for the fundraiser and not planned to be a book), which sold for £25,000 (~US$49,000) at a charity auction this week, is now available at Waterstone's website, along with contributions by 12 ...
Jun 12 2008: Although the U.S. and Canadian dollars have had about the same value for a year, Canadian consumers are still paying up to 18% more than Americans for the same products. For example, a recent study found that a hardcover book selling for $30.79 in Canada costs only $...
Jun 11 2008: Saad Eskander, director of Baghdad's national library, wants to 'help Iraqis understand their past and build their future' through education. The former Kurdish fighter tells Stuart Jeffries why culture is the key, why the US must surrender looted papers - and why he ...
Jun 11 2008: In a bid to wed the comprehensive, grassroots information factory of Wikipedia with the authority of the traditional encyclopedia, Encyclopaedia Britannica is opening the floodgates for online user submissions into its 240-year-old publication -- a move it long resisted...
Jun 11 2008: J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter books, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” to Harvard's 2008 graduates.
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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