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Dec 13 2005: A church in Austin, Texas turned down a $3 million donation to its building fund because the conditions of the donation required them to move a book from their 12th grade reading list. In December 2004, Cary McNair, the film producer son of businessman and ...
Dec 13 2005: Harry Potter author J K Rowling says that she does plan to write more books for children when she finishes the last book in the Harry Potter series but will write under a pseudonym. The book she appears to have in mind would be aimed at younger children than...
Dec 13 2005: Stan Berenstain, co-author of the 'Bear Country' books for young children, died of cancer on November 26, at the age of 82.
He met his wife and co-author, Jan, at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, where they were both students. Together ...
Dec 13 2005: Disney plans to mark Winnie The Pooh's 80th anniversary with a new animated series introducing a 6-year-old girl as a central character.
Disney bought the rights to Pooh in the 1960s from the family of Stephen Slesinger, a literary agent who acquired ...
Nov 30 2005: The winners of the 2005 National Book Awards were announced about a week ago:
Fiction: Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
Nonfiction: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Poetry: Migration by W.S. Merwin
Young People: The Penderwicks : A ...
Nov 09 2005: Last month I reported to you that it was rumored Amazon would shortly be launching a micro-payment scheme for reading books online. As of this week rumor has turned to fact with two announcements from Amazon.
The first is the launch of Amazon Pages, a program ...
Nov 09 2005: Over at Random House it's been a busy week for announcements. Firstly, at almost the same time as Amazon announced their micro-payment scheme, Random House announced their own proposed terms of sale for digital viewing, with a plan that will allow online visitors...
Nov 09 2005: Last week a spokesperson for Marvel Comics confirmed that Stephen King has agreed to write a new installment of his Dark Tower series as a graphic novel to be published in 2006. Sources say that the new installment will be published first as a comic book periodical ...
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