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Aug 03 2005: Findaway World, a privately held company based in Cleveland, OH., will launch the Playaway in October, a new product billed as the first "self-playing digital audio book." The Playaway is a ready-for-action digital audio player sized smaller than a deck of cards that ...
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Jul 20 2005: Ed McBain, author of the 87th Precinct series, died recently from cancer. During his fifty-year career Hunter (born Salvatore Lombino) wrote over 100 novels and is credited with practically inventing the police-procedural with his 87th Precinct series.
He held the ...
Jul 20 2005: Poetry.com claim they are awarding 1175 prizes totaling $58,000 to amateur poets in the coming months.
Jul 06 2005: The 12th (and penultimate) book in the Series of Unfortunate Events Series will be published in October this year (with a first print run of 2.5 million).
Jul 06 2005: Five authors made it on to Forbes Magazine's list of 100 best paid celebrities in 2004. They were Dan Brown ($76.5 million), J.K. Rowling ($59.1 million), James Patterson ($27 million), Nora Roberts ($28.8 million) and Arthur Aatson (author of the South Beach Diet, $16 ...
Jul 06 2005: R.L. Stine, author of the Goosebumps series (with more than 250 million copies in print - sufficient to get him listed in the Guinness Book of Records) and the Fear Street series, is not resting on his laurels - in the Fall he will publish the first book in his new '...
Jul 06 2005: Last month Random House (USA) donated 1.9 million books to 'First Book', a Washington D.C. based literary organization that provides free books to children in low-income families. A First Book spokesperson said, '"We are not trying to compete with publishers. One of the...
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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