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Harry Potter 7 breaks records

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...

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JK Rowling responds to US publications breaking embargo on Harry Potter 7

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.

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New novel by Alexandre Dumas

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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Commission for Racial Equality pushes to ban "Tintin"

Jul 17 2007: Last week, Britain's Commission for Racial Equality, an official British racism watchdog group, recommended bookshops across the U.K. ban copies of Tintin in the Congo (1931) by Herge following a consumer complaint from David Enright, a human rights lawyer who ...

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Harry Potter security tightens as books start to ship!

Jul 16 2007: The London Daily Telegraph reports on the 10 million pound (~$20 million) security operation to ensure that details of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows do not leak ahead of time. In Britain, print workers have been threatened with the sack if they leak any details...

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First review of Harry Potter 7

Jul 14 2007: With the frenzy over Harry Potter 7 growing, the media will be vying to be the first to review the book the morning after publication. In an article on the perils of instant reviewing, John Crace offers his tongue in cheek review of the much awaited book: "The book ...

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Sebastian Faulks to write James Bond novel

Jul 12 2007: Sebastian Faulks (author of Charlotte Gray, Birdsong etc) has been commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications Ltd to write a James Bond novel. Faulks says, "My novel is meant to stand in the line of Fleming's own books, where the story is everything." With this in mind,...

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Novelist & cartoonist Doug Marlette dies

Jul 11 2007: Novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Doug Marlette died yesterday in a single-car accident in Mississippi at the age of 57, when the car that he was a passenger in struck a tree. Marlette won a Pulitzer in 1988 for his cartoons in the Observer and Atlanta ...

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