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Edmund de Waal leads Costa book awards finalists

Jan 05 2011: Best-selling novelist Maggie O'Farrell has won her first major literary prize, the British Costa novel award, for The Hand That First Held Mine putting her in the running for the Book of the Year Award which will be announced January 25.

The four other books in the ...

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Borders in trouble, delays payment to publishers

Jan 04 2011: Borders Group, which has suffered several years of sales declines, layoffs, store closings, a revolving door at the executive level, a plummeting stock price and unsuitable ownership, hit a new low this past week: the company began delaying payments to some suppliers, ...

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Lending Kindle Books

Dec 30 2010: Amazon has now made it possible for owners of some Kindle books to lend a book for a one-time period of two weeks (during which time the lender cannot read the book). The borrowed book can be read on a range of devices. Not all books can be loaned - the decision to ...

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Man Asian Literary Prize long-list announced

Dec 14 2010: The ten titles long-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize has been announced and includes representation from Japan, China, India and the Philippines, including Japanese writer, Kenzaburo Oe, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994

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A Forgotten Dahl Piece Resurfaces on eBay

Dec 13 2010: The first two pages of The Eyes of Mr. Croaker, a children's story written by Roald Dahl in 1982 that he sold to two young American writers with the intention of publishing it in the proposed Do-It-Yourself Children's Storybook, have resurfaced in Los Angeles after ...

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Borders bids for Barnes & Noble

Dec 07 2010: Borders has filed a $960 million bid for Barnes & Noble with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

To quote Shelf Awareness, "Although intriguing, the bid that would be financed by equity fund head Bill Ackman seems as thin as a potboiler. The major problem is that...

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Google eBookstore opens

Dec 06 2010: Today, Google has finally opened its much talked about online bookstore with over 3 million titles available for free plus hundreds of thousands available for purchase.

Google supports Android, iOS, Nook, Sony readers, and other devices with automatic page ...

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The year in history - 1910

Dec 02 2010: For the last few years, when the holiday season comes around, we've looked back to previous centuries for the newsworthy events of the year. Today, please join me on a whistle stop tour 100 years back in time to 1910 ...

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