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Feb 26 2008: Reed Elsevier, parent company of Reed Business Information which includes Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Variety, and other top trade journals, recently announced that the magazines were up for sale. In the wake of this it has also been ...
Feb 25 2008: The single-biggest winner at last night's Oscars was No Country for Old
Men, based on Cormac McCarthy's book, which won best picture, best director,
best supporting actor and best adapted screenplay.
The Bourne Ultimatum, based on Robert Ludlum's book, won...
Feb 23 2008: Novelist Zadie Smith, who has received a number of awards including the Whitbread First Novel award for White Teeth and the Orange Prize for Fiction for On Beauty, has caused a stir in the blogosphere and the mainstream media with a blistering attack on literary prizes....
Feb 22 2008: Bestselling author Robin Moore, with more than 80 books to his credit, best known for writing The French Connection and The Green Berets, died Feb. 21 at the age of 82 in Kentucky.
Feb 19 2008: The Times of London takes aim at the monolithic chain stores and questions if they even offer good "value", whether it be for food, clothes or books:
"These days, how you decide to shop defines you as much as how you choose to dress. We treat supermarket shopping as ...
Feb 18 2008: The London Times reports on the realities of being a published author. Of the 200,000 books published in the UK last year, 190,000 sold fewer than 3,500 copies, with about 60,000 selling less than 18 copies. Things aren't much different in the US, where it's ...
Feb 16 2008: The London Times offers a thoughtful article on the merits of electronic books versus the traditional paper variety, concluding that "The books of all time will remain on paper, but those of the hour will increasingly be digital: the airport novel, the reference book, ...
Feb 15 2008: More than a quarter of a million people have signed up for the interactive webinar that Oprah Winfrey is conducting with Eckhart Tolle, author of her latest book club pick, A New Earth. The ten week webinar starts March 3.
L.A. Women by Ella Berman
Two ambitious writers in 1960s LA face betrayal when one writes a novel based on the other's life.
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