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Foyles outperforms market with profit up 500%

Sep 23 2010: Independent UK bookseller Foyles has increased its operating profit five-fold in the last year (to 30th June) to just under half a million pounds, bucking the trend in the overall market.

CEO Sam Husain said: "We're pleased because we see it as sustainable, it's not ...

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E-reader users buy, read more books

Sep 23 2010: A Harris Interactive poll finds that people with e-book devices are not only reading more than other Americans (which is unsurprising as one would expect early adopters to be among the heavier readers), but also more than they did before they owned the technology. "...

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LA Times Festival of Books to move closer to downtown

Sep 23 2010: The Los Angeles Times announced Wednesday that it is moving the location of its Festival of Books from UCLA to the campus of USC in 2011. The new location near the heart of downtown is anticipated to attract a larger and more diverse group of people to the two-day event...

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Oprah picks "Freedom"

Sep 16 2010: Yet to be confirmed but the word on the street is that Oprah's next book club pick is Jonathan Franzen's Freedom..

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Thomas Guinzburg, Paris Review co-founder, dies at 84

Sep 10 2010: Thomas Guinzburg, an editor and publisher who helped create The Paris Review, the enduring lion of American literary magazines, and who later became president of Viking Press, the publishing house founded by his father, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 84.

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Army negotiating to buy & destroy first print run of memoir

Sep 10 2010: Defense Department officials are negotiating to buy and destroy all 10,000 copies of the first printing of Operation Dark Heart, an Afghan war memoir they say contains intelligence secrets... the only catch is that some copies have already been released to reviewers ...

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Wall Street Journal plans new book section

Sep 10 2010: At a time when book coverage is gradually disappearing from newspapers nationwide, Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal plans to launch a weekly book review within the next few weeks as a pull out section for the Weekend Journal...

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Booker shortlist announced

Sep 07 2010: The shortlist for the Man Booker Prize has been announced:

The Long Song by Andrea Levy
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Room by Emma Donoghue
C by Tom McCarthy
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut

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