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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
Mister Pip ...
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 "...
Aug 02 2007: The New York Times reports that Charles Simic, a writer who juxtaposes dark imagery with ironic humor, is to be named the country’s 15th poet laureate by the Librarian of Congress today.
Mr. Simic, 69, was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and immigrated to the United ...
Jul 23 2007: Scholastic reports that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows sold a record-breaking 8.3 million hardcover copies in the U.S. in its first 24 hours. Random House, USA publisher of the audio book version, says that they sold about 225,000 copies of the audio book - making...
Jul 20 2007: As the countdown to the release of the final Harry Potter book reaches its final hours, Reuters reports JK Rowling's response to US publications, most notably the New York Times, publishing reviews of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ahead of publication.
"I ...
Jul 18 2007: An unknown novel by Alexandre Dumas was recently discovered in the National Library in Paris by longtime Dumas scholar Claude Schopp. The Last Cavalier is a classic Dumas story of revenge set in the Napoleonic era. The book, which was published in France in 2005, ...
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