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Financial Settlement for Freelance Writers

Apr 06 2005: After more than three years of class action infringement suits a final settlement has been reached that will award between $10 and $18 million to thousands of freelance writers whose articles were used in electronic databases without their permission.

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John Grisham trying his hand at non-fiction

Apr 06 2005: John Grisham is trying his hand at nonfiction - he is currently at work on a biography of Ronald Keith Williamson, a promising baseball player who spent 12 years on death row before DNA evidence exonerated him. The book has no title as yet and is scheduled for ...

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McCall Smith to have 10 books in print during 2005

Apr 06 2005: Alexander McCall Smith (author of the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series, and a wealth of other books) will have 10, yes 10, books published in the USA during 2005. In The Company of Cheerful Ladies. A hardcover of the 5th volume in the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency ...

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Pope books gain popularity

Apr 06 2005: For the last couple of months, publishers have been dusting off their backlist titles about the Pope and moving up the publication dates of planned titles. For example, Pope John Paul II's fifth book, Memory and Identity: Conversations Spanning Milleniums, was published...

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Record print-run for Potter

Apr 06 2005: Scholastic has set a record-breaking 10.8 million-copy first printing for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (to be released July 16th). By comparison, the print run for the order of The Order of the Phoenix (which sold 5 million copies in its first 24 hours) was a...

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Saul Bellow Dies.

Apr 06 2005: Saul Bellow died this week, aged 89, at his home in Brookline, Mass. According to his attorney and longtime friend Walter Pozen, his health had been failing for sometime but he was mentally sharp to the end. Bellow won the National Book Award three times for The ...

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Thomas the Tank Engine turns 60

Apr 06 2005: Thomas the Tank Engine and friends are celebrating their 60th year in print. Wilbert Awdry first thought up the stories to entertain his son, Christopher, in 1942 when he was three years old and in bed with measles. They were first published in the UK in 1945. In ...

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Da Vinci Code Mega-Bestseller

Mar 16 2005: The Da Vinci Code has now spent 100 weeks on Publishers Weekly's bestseller lists and has sold 10 million copies (in the USA) after 82 trips to the printer).

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