May 19 2009: Adam Nicolson has won the 2009 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize for his book Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History (HarperPress).
Not yet available in the USA, this is what the London Times have to say about the book (full review linked below):
"My heart...
May 18 2009: During March, book sales fell 17% to $388.4 million as reported by 84 publishers to the Association of American Publishers. For the year to date, book sales are down 6.8% to $1.625 billion.
The strongest categories were e-books, which more than doubled in sales, ...
May 18 2009: The James Tait Black Memorial prize shortlists for biographers and novelists have been announced. The winners will be announced at the Edinburgh Book
Festival in August.
Biography finalists:
May 15 2009: January Magazine explores the developing story of a sequel to Catcher in the Rye apparently due to publish in September. Is it a hoax, an unauthorized sequel, or is it really penned by J D Salinger using the lame pseudonym "John David California". The considered ...
May 13 2009: Richard Madeley has spoken out days after his and wife Judy Finnigan's digital channel chatshow was axed to openly admit their failure.
The couple's decision to move "The Richard and Judy Show", and its popular book club, from Channel 4, where it attracted a peak ...
May 13 2009: Eden Ross Lipson, long-time editor editor of the New York Times Book Review, died yesterday. She was 66 and had pancreatic cancer.
An editor at The New York Times Book Review for 31 years, Ms. Lipson was the children's book editor there from 1984 until her retirement...
May 06 2009: Amazon have unveiled their larger Kindle DX with a screen size 2.5 times the size of a regular Kindle. It's 1/3 inch thick and able to store 3,500 books or periodicals. Although they are offering it for sale at Amazon there is no firm date on when it will actually be ...
May 04 2009: The New York Times reports on the rumors that Amazon is close to launching a bigger screen version of the Kindle, with a screen roughly the size of a standard sheet of paper, aimed at the newspaper and magazine reading market.
Similar readers are also in the works ...
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