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Google Print for Libraries Still Causing Storm

Jun 01 2005: Google Print For Libraries (Google's project to place large amounts of book content in its database and make it available in the form of 'snippets') continues to cause controversy. Not only are publishers concerned about the amount of information available to browsers ...

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Time Traveller's Wife becomes bestseller

May 18 2005: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger is a runaway bestseller with more than 2 million copies in print. In 2006 movie goers will be able to enjoy its convoluted storyline on screen in a film directed by Gus van Sant and starring Brad Pitt (Jennifer Aniston and ...

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Book Expo

May 18 2005: Interesting book news seems a little scarce at the moment - probably because the largest USA publishing industry trade show of the year, Book Expo America, is just around the corner (June 3rd-5th at the Jacob K Javits Convention Center in New York). Day passes range ...

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Bullshit Sells Well

May 18 2005: The surprise bestseller On Bullshit by Princeton philosophy professor, Harry G Frankfurt, continues to sell well. It was first published, under a different title, in the American Scholar in 1986; but was published with its current, and undoubtedly catchier, title in ...

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Small & large publishers complain about Amazon's 'voluntary' promotions program.

May 04 2005: According to Publishers Weekly, Amazon requires publishers to contribute co-op dollars of approximately 3% of their Amazon sales for the previous year - or risk not appearing in search results. These dollars can be used in a variety of ways but the most popular for ...

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New TV series set in a bookstore.

Apr 20 2005: The new Fox TV series, Stacked (starring the well endowed Pamela Anderson, with the tagline - You can't judge a book by its cover, especially when it's only covered by a miniskirt and baby-tee!) launched last week in a six week pilot. Set in a bookstore, the plot ...

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Oprah starts publishing books

Apr 20 2005: With Oprah's success promoting other people's books, many have felt it was only a matter of time before she published a book herself - and now she (or more accurately the publishers of 'O' Magazine: Hearst Magazines & Harpo Print) is doing so. Live Your Best Life, a ...

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Amazon to publish short pieces

Apr 06 2005: Amazon appears to be getting ready to start publishing short pieces of work, such as stories and essays, and selling them for micro-payments of 49 cents each. The material would be exclusive to Amazon and not available in printed form. According to Publishers Weekly, ...

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