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Book Sales Static Year-on-Year, Gains for Adult Paperbacks, Losses for Audio & Children

Feb 08 2007: According to the Association of American Publishers (AAP), net book sales in 2006 were effectively static year on year at approximately $10,000 billion, although net book sales fell in December by 0.6%. 

Big gains were shown by e-books, up 24% year on year ...

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National Book Network Make Offer For Bankrupt PGW

Feb 07 2007: National Book Network has proposed taking over the distribution contracts of PGW clients, offering to pay 85 cents for every dollar owed publishers in the AMS bankruptcy and asking for a three-year contract extension. The proposal, compares to the 70 cents/four year ...

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Harry Potter Book 7 Publication Date Announced

Feb 01 2007: Harry Potter Book 7, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be simultaneously released in a number of English speaking markets on sale July 21. In the USA the hardcover will be priced at $34.99, the first price increase since 2003. Amazon have already announced ...

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Iconic Texas Columnist Molly Ivins Dies

Feb 01 2007: Molly Ivins, author, syndicated columnist, former co-editor of the Texas Monthly and author of many books, died on Jan 31 of breast cancer, she was 62. Her books included Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush; Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush'...

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Sidney Sheldon Dies Aged 89

Jan 31 2007: Bestselling author Sidney Sheldon died on Jan 30, 2007, at the age of 89.  During his long life he enjoyed three careers —a Broadway playwright, a Hollywood TV and movie screenwriter, and a best-selling novelist. Some of his most famous TV works include I ...

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Bookstore sells 30,000 Bush Countdown Clocks

Jan 29 2007: Bookshop Santa Cruz in California is selling a "Bush Countdown Clock" keychain for $9.95 at nationalnightmare.com, including free shipping. In the past year, the store has sold some 30,000 units, about 82 a day or 3.4 an hour. This is not the first time the left-...

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Oprah Chooses Sidney Poitier Memoir

Jan 26 2007: Oprah has chosen Sidney Poitier's autobiography The Measure of a Man as her first book club selection after a hiatus of more than a year, following the debacle over James Frey's memoir.

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New Literary Award for Unpublished Novelists

Jan 25 2007: Boaz Publishing have announced a $10,000 award for unpublished novels. The Frances Fabri Literary Prize for Fiction honors the memory of holocaust survivor Frances Fabri, an unpublished poet and fiction writer who spent much of her later years recording oral histories ...

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