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Judith Regan Dismissed Over If I Did It Debacle

Jan 04 2007: Judith Regan, publisher of Regan Books, the HarperCollins imprint responsible for a number of controversial but highly profitable titles such as three books about Scott Peterson, was dismissed shortly before Christmas following the furor over the planned memoir by O....

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Tougher Guidelines For Rowdy Students in Libraries

Jan 04 2007: On Jan 2nd The New York Times reported on the difficulties faced by public libraries faced with "rowdy students" with nowhere else to go after school. This has led Maplewood Memorial Library, in Essex County, New Jersey, to close its doors on weekdays between 2....

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The Glass Castle On Stage

Dec 15 2006: A one-woman show based on Jeannette Walls The Glass Castle opened in New York a few days ago.  The show will now travel to schools around the country as part of The Literature to Life program that presents performances of "significant American literary works".&...

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Book Sales Up In October

Dec 15 2006: According to the Association of American Publishers, which compiles sales data from 81 publishers, book sales in October were up 14% year on year, but sales for the year as a whole are down by 0.3% to $7.8 billion.  The categories that made significant gains in ...

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Eragon Hits Big Screen

Dec 15 2006: Eragon the movie (based on teen author Christopher Paolini's books Eragon and Eldest) opened Friday, December 15 (to generally terrible reviews), with 18-year-old unknown Edward Speleers as Eragon.  Speleers has had no prior film experience, in fact his only ...

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Unauthorized Oprah Bio?

Dec 15 2006: Notorious unauthorized biographer Kitty Kelley has chosen Oprah Winfrey as the subject of her next book, publication date to be announced.  Kelley's previous books include bios of Jackie Kennedy, Nancy Reagan, the Bush family and the British Royal family. ...

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Running with Scissors: The Furor Continues

Dec 06 2006: The family depicted in Augusten Burrough's Running with Scissors, his 2002 memoir of a hyper-dysfunctional childhood, is telling its side of the story for the first time publicly in Vanity Fair in January (out next week). Members of the ...

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Bebe Moore Campbell Diess Age 56

Dec 06 2006: Bebe Moore Campbell, journalist and author of a range of adult and children's books that explored racial and social issues, died on November 27 in Los Angeles of brain cancer. She was 56. Her husband, Ellis Gordon Jr., was quoted by the New York Times as saying, "...

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