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Amazon and Penguin announce fourth Novel Award competition

Dec 01 2010: Amazon.com and Penguin Group have announced the fourth annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition. Due to the popularity of the additional young adult category in 2010, the competition will again award two grand prizes: one for general fiction and one for best ...

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Google Editions coming soon

Dec 01 2010: Google is going forward with plans to launch an e-book store by the end of the year. Google Editions will grow out of Google Books, the company's service for browsing and previewing books on the Web. Unlike Amazon, the Google Editions Web-based model will not require a ...

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Indies report generally positive Black Friday sales

Nov 30 2010: Publishers Weekly reports that the majority of independent bookstores they contacted had solid holiday sales over the Thanksgiving weekend with memoirs leading the way, most notably The Autobiography of Mark Twain and George Bush's Decision Points...

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Norris Church Mailer, artist and wife of Norman Mailer, dies aged 61

Nov 22 2010: Norris Church Mailer, a woman bred in the rural poverty of Arkansas who married Norman Mailer and managed his career and family life over three decades while carving out her own niche as a writer, died of cancer on Sunday at her home in Brooklyn Heights. She was 61.

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Surprise wins at the National Book Awards

Nov 18 2010: This year's National Book Awards winners were announced last night.

Arguably the biggest surprise of the evening was Jaime Gordon's win in the Fiction category for Lord of Misrule, which beat Peter Carey's Parrot and Olivier in America, Nicole Krauss's ...

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Kindle book stirs controversy

Nov 15 2010: The backlash continues regarding Amazon's handling last week of a controversial Kindle book offering advice to pedophiles

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Newsweek and The Daily Beast to merge

Nov 12 2010: Newsweek magazine is merging with news website The Daily Beast, it has been announced.

It will bring together one of US publishing's oldest names with one of its newest, under the stewardship of former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown.

Newsweek, established in 1933, ...

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Giller Prize-winner hard to find due to limited supply

Nov 12 2010: This week, The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud won the Giller Prize which honors the best of Canadian writing, but don't expect to find print copies of the book flooding shelves anytime soon - tiny publisher Gaspereau is running at max, hand printing just 1000 ...

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