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Apr 24 2008: The New York Times reports that The Mount, Edith Wharton’s house in Lenox, Mass., which has been in financial trouble for months, has been given another reprieve - pushing back the imminent foreclosure for another month. So far $800,000 of the needed $3m has been ...
Apr 23 2008: Today, in may parts of the world, countries are celebrating The International Day of the Book, also known as World Book and Copyright Day. The yearly event has been organized by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) since 1995.
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Apr 21 2008: Publishers Weekly reports that Author Solutions, parent company of AuthorHouse and iUniverse, has acceded to Amazon's recent demand that publishers's print-on-demand titles be printed by BookSurge, Amazon.com’s POD subsidiary, if they wish to continue to make these ...
Apr 21 2008: The Associated Press reports that Signet, an imprint of Penguin Group, will no longer be publishing historical romance author Cassie Edwards's novels after it was shown that her books included numerous passages copied from historical works. Edwards, who has written ...
Apr 17 2008: Estimates from the US Census Bureau show Jan-Feb book sales up 6.7% year on year - a little ahead of total retail sales which are up 5.8%. Apparently Census Bureau definitions of bookstore sales do not include "electronic home shopping, mail-order, or direct sale" or ...
Apr 17 2008: President Bush's proposed 2009 budget eliminates all the funding for Reading Is Fundamental's book distribution program that, since 1966, has provided more than
325 million books to more than 30 million underprivileged children.
“With 13 million children living in ...
Apr 17 2008: A three-day trial over an unauthorized Harry Potter encyclopedia ended Wednesday with J.K. Rowling stating that she is ''vehemently anti-censorship'' and generally supportive of the right of other authors to write books about her novels but that Vander Ark had ''...
Apr 16 2008: A Harry Potter fan who sought to publish an encyclopedic guide to the wildly popular fantasy novels broke down and cried on the witness stand Tuesday as he faced off in court against his idol J.K. Rowling.
According to USA Today, the former middle school librarian, ...
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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