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Apr 07 2006: The Campaign for Reader Privacy, the joint initiative of the American Booksellers Association, PEN American Center, the American Library Association, and the Association of American Publishers, is accusing President Bush of undermining the privacy safeguard amendments...
Apr 07 2006: April 12th is National Drop Everything and Read Day" in the USA, organized by Harper Collins and several other organizations, in honor of author Beverly Cleary's 90th birthday. The initiative is meant to encourage families to enjoy books together. Cleary's ...
Apr 07 2006: After enduring a months-long trial in London over claims that he had lifted the central idea for The Da Vinci Code from a non-fiction book, The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail, Dan Brown and his publisher, Random House, have received the expected outcome - with the court ...
Apr 07 2006: April 13 is the 100th birthday of Samuel Beckett, the great Irish playwright, poet and novelist and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize.
Apr 07 2006: Despite intense lobbying from the Society of Authors and Publishers Association, Britain's Competition Commission yesterday gave provisional approval to a proposed takeover of Ottakar's bookstore chain by HMV, the parent company of the country's largest bookseller, ...
Apr 07 2006: Author John Reynolds Gardiner died on March 4th, at the age of 61. He is best known for his 1980 novel Stone Fox(HarperCollins). He is also the author of Top Secret (Little, Brown) and General Butterfingers (Houghton).
Apr 07 2006: Sean Penn is planning to direct a movie based on Jon Krakauer's Into The Wild
Apr 07 2006: Scholastic, which disappointed investors in previous years by failing to hit its financial targets, announced third quarter earnings and warned that it will miss its projections for the current fiscal year. Higher promotion expenses in its book clubs, higher staffing ...
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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