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Peter Benchley Dies

Mar 02 2006: US author Peter Benchley, whose novel Jaws was made into one of Hollywood's most famous films, died on February 13, from complications relating to the pulmonary fibrosis that he was diagnosed with about a year ago. He was 65.

Raised in New York City and a graduate of...

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The Future: Long-Distance Book Signings!

Mar 02 2006: A new device allows authors to sign books long distance. The LongPen is a 'remote signing device' that consists of two units (each with a video screen) that lets the author sign with a magnetic pen on one machine, while the second machine duplicates the notation with ...

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World Book Day

Mar 02 2006: On March 2nd Great Britain celebrated World Book Day, with twelve of the biggest names in fiction and non?fiction publishing short, fast-paced new books designed to encourage reluctant readers to get hooked on books.  The twelve authors include Ruth Rendell, ...

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Hippo and Tortoise Freindship Inspires Book

Feb 15 2006: An unlikely friendship sparks the creation of two books.  Over the last year a baby hippo named Owen and Mzee, a 130-year-old male Aldabra tortoise whose name means wise old man in Swahili, have become inseparable.  Their friend began in the aftermath of...

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Time Warner Book Group acquired by Hachette

Feb 15 2006: Last week, Lagardère, the French owner of Hachette Publishing, acquired the Time Warner Book Group for $537.5m - about $235 million more than Bertelsmann and/or Perseus were willing to pay for TWBG in 2003. Since that time, TWBG has strung together two record...

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Case Against Author Orhan Parmuk Dropped

Feb 03 2006: Turkish prosecutors have dropped their case against author Orhan Pamuk, who was put on trial for denigrating his country in comments he made to a Turkish newspaper (amongst other things he spoke of his country's persecution of Kurds in the 1980s). His high ...

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Donald Trump Sues Warner Over TrumpNation

Feb 03 2006: Donald Trump has filed a defamation of character claim against Warner Books and author Timothy L O'Brien over TrumpNation published in late October. Trump's main grievance appears to be that in the book, and in an October article in the New York Times, O'Brien ...

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James Frey Controversy Winds Down

Feb 03 2006: The saga of James Frey's books appears to be close to running its course with both the publisher and author making statements, in which the publisher essentially says they didn't know, and the author says that his memoir "is a combination of facts about my life ...

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