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'Beneath a Marble Sky' selected by Costco

Mar 31 2008: Costco have picked Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors as their April pick. First published in 2004 (and strongly recommended by BookBrowse at the time), the book tells the story of the building of the Taj Mahal through the eyes of the Emperor's daughter. BookBrowse ...

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Amazon to Encourage POD Publishers to Use BookSurge

Mar 31 2008: On 3/28 Publishers Weekly reported that BookSurge, Amazon’s print-on-demand subsidiary, is making an offer that most publishers would like to refuse, but don’t feel they can. According to talks with several pod houses, Amazon has told them that unless their titles are ...

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Oddest Book Title award winner announced

Mar 31 2008: The winner of the Diagram Prize for the oddest book title of 2007 has been announced. The winner is the self-help manual "If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs", which took an impressive one-third of the 8,500 votes cast. The runner up, "I was ...

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Booksellers incensed over sexual content law

Mar 26 2008: A new state law in Indiana that requires sellers of adult material to register with the state has bookstore owners fuming about government censorship and threatening a legal challenge. "This lumps us in with businesses that sell things that you can't even mention in a ...

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The Seven Deadly Words of Book Reviewing

Mar 26 2008: The New York Times blog "Paper Cuts" offers an amusing piece on the Seven Deadly Words of Book Reviewing ....

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Your name in a book by Lee Child, Ken Follett, Jodi Picoult and others - bid now!

Mar 25 2008: The 'Authors for Autism Research' auction is now live at Ebay. Seventeen authors including Lee Child, Louis de Bernieres, Ken Follett, Jodi Picoult and James Sallis, are taking part in the auction. The winning bidders will have their names included as a character in ...

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B&N launches Quamut.com

Mar 24 2008: Barnes & Noble has launched Quamut.com, a how-to Web site offering free online guides on more than 1,000 topics. Quamut, pronounced kwomut, is Latin for "how to". The company simultaneously publishes all content in two formats: as HTML online and as downloadable PDFs;...

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Hugo Awards finalists announced

Mar 24 2008: The finalists for this year's Hugo Awards have been published. The list includes Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union, which has also been nominated for an Edgar and a Nebula. The Hugos, first awarded in 1953, recognize excellence in the field of science ...

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    In 19th-century France, a girl with a magical taste becomes a duc’s poison taster amid nobility and danger.
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