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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.
May 30 2008: In the spirit of the Boston Tea Party, booksellers declared a new era of Independents at Book Expo America on Thursday. The American Booksellers Association - building on a rising tide of localism - launched its new program, IndieBound, to enthusiastic applause. The ...
May 30 2008: The Book Sense Book of the Year Award for fiction has been won by Khaled Hosseini for A Thousand Splendid Suns. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick and Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity by Mo Willems won prizes for Children's Literature, and ...
May 29 2008: Publishers Weekly reports that the production of book titles increased by 39% in 2007 to 411,422 titles. The production of traditional books increased by just 1% to 276,649 but output of on-demand, short run and unclassified titles soared from 21,936 in 2006 to 134,773...
May 27 2008: To celebrate the centennial of the birth of Ian Fleming, Penguin UK and Doubleday in the US have published the 36th Bond book, Devil May Care, written by Sebastian Faulks. There will be also be a yearlong exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum: "For Your Eyes Only:...
May 23 2008: Publishers Weekly reports that Microsoft has pulled the plug on its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects, and has taken down both websites. Through the programs, Microsoft has digitized 750,000 books and indexed 80 million journal articles. Those ...
May 22 2008: Publishers Weekly reports that Barnes and Noble CEO Steve Riggio has given his firm backing to look for ways to end the traditional returns practice and predicts that it could be possible to find a solution "in a year or two." At the moment, about one-third of books ...
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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