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 ...
Jan 22 2007: The American Library Association have announced the winners of the ALA Awards.
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, ...
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, ...
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:
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 ...
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 ...
Jan 19 2007: Political humorist and columnist Art Buchwald died on Wednesday 17th Jan of kidney failure at the age of 81. He wrote more than 8,000 newspaper columns and more than 30 books.
L.A. Women by Ella Berman
Two ambitious writers in 1960s LA face betrayal when one writes a novel based on the other's life.
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