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Aug 28 2007: According to the Washington Post, Random House Inc is donating $1 million to First Book, a Washington-based nonprofit organization that has given millions of books to needy children since its founding in 1992.
"As publishing professionals who spend our days ...
Aug 24 2007: The blogosphere has been abuzz with the news that J.K. Rowling has been spotted in cafes around Edinburgh working on a crime novel - but they are wrong. The rumor started when Ian Rankin, fellow Scotsman and author of a detective series set in Edinburgh, jokingly told ...
Aug 23 2007: According to a YouGov poll reported in the Guardian, more Britons dream about becoming an author than any other job! 10% of Britons aspire to be an author, followed by sports personality, pilot, astronaut and event organizer. More women than men yearn to write, while ...
Aug 22 2007: According to a poll conducted by Ipsos for the Associated Press, one in four adults read no books at all in the past year. Of those who did read, women and older people were most avid, and religious works and popular fiction were the top choices (sample size 1003, ...
Aug 15 2007: Publishers Weekly reports that the announcement that Beaufort Books will publish O.J. Simpson's If I Did It has created a stir in media and publishing circles. Appearing on the Today Show this morning Kampmann and Denise Brown (Nicole Brown Simpson's sister) ...
Aug 11 2007: CreateSpace, part of Amazon.com since 2005, has launched an online Books on Demand service that will not charge setup fees, will be displayed in Amazon as "in stock" and will be shipped within 24 hours. Books are printed with full-color paperback covers and text may be ...
Aug 08 2007: The longlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize is:
Darkmans by Nicola Barker
Self Help by Edward Docx
The Gift Of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
The Gathering by Anne Enright
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
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Aug 05 2007: On July 30, J.K. Rowling fielded as many questions as possible from the 120,000 submitted by fans during her live 90-minute web chat sponsored by publisher Bloomsbury - even imagining what various favorite characters go on to do after book 7 ends. Click the link under "...
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
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