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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 ...
Nov 12 2006: American author Jonathan Littell (son of the author Robert Littell) has won the Prix Goncourt, France's top literary honor, for novel, Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones). Harper Collins will publish the US translation in Spring 2008. ...
Nov 12 2006: The battle over searching the entire text of books continues to hot up with Google issuing subpoenas to Amazon, the Association of American Publishers, Yahoo, Microsoft, Random House, HarperCollins and Holtzbrinck Publishers seeking details relating to each ...
Oct 19 2006: Kiran Desai has won this year’s Mann Booker Prize for her novel, The Inheritance of Loss. At 35 Desai is the youngest woman to ever win the award, which is the U.K.’s most prestigious literary honor. The daughter of three-time short listed nominee ...
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