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AuthorHouse acquired by Bertram Capital

Jan 24 2007: The 10-year-old print on demand publisher AuthorHouse has been acquired by Bertram Capital, a private equity firm in Palo Alto, Calif. AuthorHouse has published some 40,000 books by 30,000 writers. In 2006, AuthorHouse released 6,000 books.

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Borders and Walden Customers Raise Money For Kids

Jan 24 2007: In the last two months of 2006 customers of Borders and Walden Bookstores (both part of Borders Group) raised $830,000 for First Book, a nonprofit organization that provides books to children from low-income families. $780,000 was raised by customers making ...

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American Library Association Announce 2007 Winners of Newbery, Caldecott etc.

Jan 22 2007: The American Library Association have announced the winners of the ALA Awards.

• The Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature was awarded to The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
• The Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most ...

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National Book Critics Circle Announce Nominees

Jan 22 2007: The National Book Critics Circle have named the 2006 nominees for the organizations top annual honors.  Contenders include Michael Pollan for The Omnivore's Dilemma, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Half of a Yellow Sun, Kiran Desai for The Inheritance of Loss, ...

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Perseus Books Group To Acquire PGW

Jan 22 2007: The Perseus Books Group have made an offer to acquire substantially" all of the distribution contracts of PGW, the distribution arm of bankrupt Advanced Marketing Services (AMS). The deal is subject to approval by the bankruptcy court, but PGW's two largest clients, ...

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Poe Award Nominee List Announced

Jan 22 2007: The 2007 nominees for the Edgar Allan Poe Awards awarded by the Mystery Writers of America have been announced:

The nominees for Best Novel are:

• Louis Bayard for The Pale Blue Eye
• Jason Goodwin for The Janissary Tree
• Joanne Harris for Gentleman and Players
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First Biography of Barack Obama

Jan 19 2007: Publishers Black Dog & Leventhal plan to be the first to publish a biography (unauthorized) of 2008 Democratic presidential hopeful—Barack Obama. "The Story of Barack Obama" by People magazine writer Steve Dougherty is scheduled for release in February with a 100,000 ...

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James Patterson #1 Bestselling Author

Jan 19 2007: According to his Little, Brown publisher Michael Pietsch, James Patterson was the #1 bestselling author in America in 2006, selling 12 million books. He sold a further 12 million in the UK. When asked about the novelist's practice of working with co-writers Pietsch ...

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