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Poet Elizabeth Alexander to compose poem for inauguration

Dec 19 2008: Poet Elizabeth Alexander has been selected to compose and read a poem at the presidential inauguration next month. As the Washington Post observed, "It is the first time that 'poetry's old-fashioned praise,' as Robert Frost called it, will be featured at the ceremony ...

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Prequel to "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" to be published

Dec 19 2008: Ecco has acquired U.S. rights to a prequel of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by its author, David Wrobleski - part of a planned trilogy. According to the publisher, the forthcoming book, which focuses on John, the patriarch of the Sawtelle clan, exposes the origins of the...

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Rowling's charity book fastest selling title of 2008

Dec 19 2008: J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard is now the fastest-selling title of 2008 with more than 2.6 million copies sold worldwide in less than two weeks.

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40% of people lie about what they read

Dec 17 2008: A BBC survey suggests that nearly half of all men and one-third of women have lied about what they have read to try to impress friends or potential partners. But they're not necessarily lying about books they claim to have read; 74% of teenagers said that they've have ...

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Layoffs at Macmillan

Dec 16 2008: The drumbeat of grim news from the publishing industry continues a Macmillan, the company that operates imprints including Farrar, Straus and Giroux, St. Martin's Press and Henry Holt, laid off about 4% of its staff and restructured its children's book division. Layoffs...

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October retail sales, including bookstores, fall

Dec 15 2008: During October, bookstore sales slipped for the second month in a row, falling 5.6%, according to preliminary estimates from the Census Bureau. In September, bookstore sales fell 4.5% compared to the same period a year earlier. For the year to date, bookstore sales have...

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NPR to cut 7% of staff & 20% of book programing

Dec 10 2008: Despite reaching near-record audiences, NPR say it will be reducing its workforce by 7% and cutting expenses to compensate for the sharp decline in current and projected revenues from corporate underwriting. A significant number of the personnel cuts result from the ...

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Reed Elsevier to retain magazine unit

Dec 10 2008: After almost a year of trying to sell their magazine unit, which includes Publishers Weekly, Reed Elsevier announced "it has terminated discussions with potential bidders for Reed Business Information ("RBI"). In view of the recent deterioration in macro-economic ...

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