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Dec 06 2006: Houghton Mifflin is to be acquired by Riverdeep, an Irish-based software publisher. The deal is expected to go through before the end of the year. Under the structure of the deal, a newly formed company, HM Rivergroup, will acquire both HM and ...
Dec 06 2006: Ian McEwan, one of Britain's best known and most lauded authors, has been accused of copying phrases and sentences for his best-selling novel Atonement (2001) from a memoir published in 1977 by Lucilla Andrews, a former nurse and an acclaimed writer of romantic ...
Dec 06 2006: An investor group led by Ripplewood Holdings has agreed to buy Reader's Digest. They plan to pay $17 per share and will assume all Reader's Digest debt. Reader's Digest had sales of $2.39 billion for the fiscal year ending June 30 and an operating loss...
Dec 06 2006: Simon & Schuster have announced that they will publish the top three manuscripts from the Sobol Awards as hardcovers under the Touchstone imprint. Mark Gompertz, senior v-p and publisher of S&S's Touchstone/Fireside imprint, commented, "We were...
Dec 06 2006: As you may already have heard, this week ReganBooks (a Harper Collins imprint run by Judith Regan) were planning to publish a book by O.J. Simpson titled If I Did It, in which he planned to tell the world how he would have committed the murders if he were the ...
Dec 06 2006: Vintage (part of Random House) have won the rights to publish the Iraq Study Group Report in book form. They plan to rush the book to press as a paperback so that it is in stores on December 6, the same day that the report is scheduled to be released to the public...
Dec 06 2006: William Diehl, author of thrillers such as Sharky's Machine, Primal Fear, Thai Horse and Eureka, died on 26 November in Atlanta, Ga., of an aortal aneurysm. He was 81. He started writing his first novel at the age of 50 while serving on a jury; at his ...
Nov 12 2006: The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) is asking booksellers to post a new statement in their stores. "To Our Customers" explains the bookstore's support of free speech and readers' privacy. It comments on why booksellers believe it is ...
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
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