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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...
Jun 15 2005: This year Penguin celebrates their 70th year providing quality paperbacks - each with the distinctive penguin on the cover.
In 1935, if you wanted to read a good book, you needed either a lot of money or a library card. Cheap paperbacks were available, but their ...
Jun 01 2005: According to Bowker (who describe themselves as North America’s leading provider of bibliographic information), 195,000 new book titles were published in 2004, up 14% year on year. The growth came mainly from small and mid-sized publishers, with the largest publishing ...
Jun 01 2005: Now that W. Mark Felt has come clean that he was 'Deep Throat' the next question is when's he going to write a book and does anyone care either way? The answer seems to he probably won't (he is the author of one book about the FBI (The FBI Pyramid From The Inside), ...
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 ...
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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