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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.
Jun 09 2008: In a Q&A in the Wall Street Journal Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos talks about the future of the book and e-book:
"Over some time horizon, books will be read on electronic devices. Physical books won't completely go away, just as horses haven't completely gone ...
Jun 09 2008: Abebooks reports on the many treasures found in used books - from cash, a diamond ring and a Mickey Mantle rookie baseball card to a marriage certificate from 1879 and World War II discharge papers. One lucky customer found a $1,000 bill worth about $40,000!
Jun 09 2008: The 15-year "Poetry in Motion" campaign on the New York subway system comes to an end in a few weeks time, to be replaced by prose pieces under the name "Train of Thought."
Jun 05 2008: Registration at BookExpo America in Los Angeles was 28,494, down from 36,112 in New York in 2007. The most dramatic decline was in book buyers and librarians. The cost of travel, the fact ALA will be held in California in less than a month plus the fact that most of ...
Jun 05 2008: The anticipated cuts at Borders were announced this morning with the bookstore chain saying that it has eliminated a total of 274 positions.
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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