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Murakami Wins Prize

Oct 05 2006: Haruki Murakami has won the second Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award for Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, published last month in the USA. According to the Guardian, the prize, given to the best new collection published in English in the past...

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Sony Announces New e-book Reader

Oct 05 2006: At the official launch of the Sony Reader last week, the electronics giant filled in some of the questions that had remained open since this past winter, when a prototype of the reading device was first released. Perhaps the most important bit of new information was the...

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US Watches More Television - No Change in Book Readership

Oct 05 2006: According to the Communications Industry Forecast 2006-2010, the amount of time spent reading books is expected to stay effectively static (107 hours per year in 2006, rising to 108 in 2010 - I suspect the 1 hour increase is actually a fob to the book industry, as...

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Bagdad Mourns Lost Books

Sep 20 2006: Baghdad has long been "a city known for its love affair with books." In the words of the well known Arabic proverb "Cairo writes. Beirut publishes. And Baghdad reads." Sadly, this is no longer the case - The Washington Post reports that Mutanabi Street, the ...

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Man Booker Shortlist Announced

Sep 20 2006: The Man Booker Prize shortlist has been announced.  The prize is open to any novel by a citizen of the British Commonwealth or Ireland and the shortlist reflects this diversity, with two Australians, one Indian, one exiled Libyan and two Britons making up the...

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New JRR Tolkein Book Imminent

Sep 20 2006: In April 2007, Houghton Mifflin will publish a new book by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Hurin, one of three "great tales" Tolkien worked on during his life. The book has been completed by Tolkien's son Christopher who has acted as editor of much of his father's ...

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Sobol Award Announced

Sep 20 2006: Sobol Literary Enterprises has announced a contest for unpublished writers - with $100,000 total in cash prizes, and literary representation for the 10 winners.
The Sobol Award is the brainchild of Gur Shomron, a technology ...

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A Million Little Pieces Settlement On Its Way

Sep 06 2006: Random House, publisher of James Frey's memoir A Million Little Pieces, is close to agreeing the terms of a settlement pertaining to 10 (of the 12) class action lawsuits that claim fraud and other allegations relating to the book - stemming from Frey's admission ...

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