Mar 16 2005: Fox-TV just announced that it has ordered six episodes of a new sitcom called Stacked, starring Pamela Anderson as a bookstore employee who is trying to change her life and break her habit of falling for the wrong guys. It will co-star Christopher ...
Mar 16 2005: Lalita Tademy (author of Cane River) has signed a deal for a new book to be published in 2006 - another family saga titled Red River.
Mar 16 2005: April 2005 marks the golden anniversary of Listening Library, founded by former teacher, Anthony Ditlow, in 1955. The first recording was Around The World in 80 Days by Jules Verne. Listening Library were one of the first companies to ...
Mar 16 2005: Jared Diamond's next book (following Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel) is to be called, The World Until Yesterday: A History of Pre-History. It will look at the period when humans were hunter-gatherers with little or no social ...
Mar 02 2005: The next time you read a book by one of your favorite authors, perhaps your son or daughter will be reading the same author right alongside you, because 2005 sees a veritable flood of established authors of adult fiction writing for children; some for the ...
Feb 02 2005: The 'trend of award winning movies based on books continues. Last year the Academy Award nominations for best picture were dominated by a record four movies based on books. This year there are two: Million Dollar Baby based on Rope Burns by F.X. Toole ...
Feb 02 2005: Doubleday Publishing (part of Random House) has acquired the rights to a book based on the writings of the 'al-Qaeda braintrust'. The book is tentatively titled The Al Qaeda Reader and is a synthesis of two books: one in which al-Qaeda chief ...
Feb 02 2005: Amazon has introduced a new membership program called 'Amazon Prime' - for an annual fee of $79 they will 2-day ship unlimited books for free.
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