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British Book Awards Shortlist

Mar 15 2008: The British Book Awards shortlist has been announced with Khaled Hosseini up for three awards and Doris Lessing making her first appearance. The Galaxy British Book Awards are sponsored by W H Smith, Readers Digest, Waterstones, Sainsburys, Tesco and other well known ...

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Harry Potter: 7 books, 8 movies. Theme park in 2009

Mar 14 2008: It has been announced that the final book in the Harry Potter series is just too big to be contained in a single movie, so will be made into two films, one to be released in November 2010, the other in May 2011. Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, who is currently filming ...

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Borders about-face on shelves

Mar 13 2008: The Wall Street Journal reports on Border's decision to display "as many as three times the titles as in the past" face out, and to remove 5-10% of the average store's titles (many of which sell only one copy a year per store). This move has apparently led to sales ...

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No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency coming to HBO

Mar 12 2008: HBO recently completed a two-hour pilot based on the No. 1 Ladies Detective series; a further 13 shows will be filmed this summer on location in Botswana. Jill Scott plays Precious Ramotswe. Other cast members include Anika Noni Rose as Ramotswe's quirky secretary and ...

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Oprah likes it, so it must be good. Right?

Mar 11 2008: The Guardian UK comments in less than glowing terms on Oprah Winfrey's judgment in touting her latest book club pick, The New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, and suggests that "enlightenment in the U.S. has always come at a price." "Like any self-respecting guru, Tolle is ...

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Towards a greener future for publishing

Mar 10 2008: Publishers Weekly reports on the just-released report, Environmental Trends and Climate Impacts: Findings from the U.S. Book Industry, which was coordinated by the Book Industry Study Group and the Green Press Initiative in an effort to establish benchmarks relating ...

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National Book Critics Circle Award winners

Mar 07 2008: The winners of the National Book Critics Circle awards, presented last night in New York City, are:

• Fiction: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
• Nonfiction: Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from ...

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Rowling goes to court

Mar 05 2008: Library Journal reports that J.K. Rowling will be in court March 13 in an attempt to block the publication of The Harry Potter Lexicon, written by librarian Steve Vander Ark. The book is based on Vander Ark's Harry Potter Lexicon website which, apparently, Rowling has ...

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