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Oct 18 2011: Fourth time lucky for Julian Barnes, who wins the Man Booker prize 2011 for his novel The Sense of an Ending after missing out on three previous occasions
Oct 18 2011: After falling 4% in July, bookstore sales posted unexpectedly strong gains in August, according to preliminary estimates released by the Census Bureau, rising 11.8%. With the gain in August, bookstore sales through August of 2011 were up 2.1% year on year, whereas total...
Oct 17 2011: A letter of rejection from the Joint Committee of Colleges of Journalism in Stockholm to applicant 493 – the late Stieg Larsson – is to be sold at auction in London to help Expo, the anti-fascist, anti-discrimination organisation and magazine he helped create.
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Oct 17 2011: Literary agent Andrew Wylie believes a 50% digital royalty rate will become widely accepted by publishers once the digital "shake-out" settles down.... "Publishers should pay a 50% digital royalty and digital distributors should not be charging 30% - zero would be ...
Oct 17 2011: Amazon will publish 122 books this fall in an array of genres, in both physical and e-book form. It is a striking acceleration of the retailer’s fledging publishing program that will place Amazon squarely in competition with the New York houses that are also its most ...
Oct 16 2011: The Pursued - a crime novel written in 1935 by Horatio Hornblower creator CS Forester that was thought lost - is to be published for the first time in November.
It was lost after the English author decided not to publish it so he could concentrate on a follow-up to ...
Oct 13 2011: The finalists for the 2011 National Book Awards were named yesterday by the National Book Foundation. The fiction shortlist is
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obrecht (Random House)
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka (Knopf)
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (Bloomsbury ...
Oct 13 2011: A new literary award, The Literature Prize, has been set up to "establish a clear and uncompromising standard of excellence", with the advisory board claiming that the Man Booker Prize no longer does the job.
Pony Confidential
by Christina Lynch
In this whimsical mystery, a grumpy pony must clear his beloved human's name from a murder accusation.
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If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves
Click Here to find out who said this, as well as discovering other famous literary quotes!
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