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Dec 09 2008: 2008 Nobel laureate JMG le Clezio gave his acceptance speech on December 8 in which he warned of the dangers of information poverty and called for publishers to increase their efforts to put books in the hands of people around the world.
Speaking in French at the ...
Dec 05 2008: Three Percent editor Chad Post recently announced their list of 2008 best translated books.
Three Percent launched in the summer of 2007 with the goal of becoming a destination for readers, editors, and translators interested in finding out about modern and ...
Dec 04 2008: The National Retail Federation's good news of a three-percent bump in this year's Black Friday sales was tempered, since many retailers had slashed prices so deeply to reap modest results. Some indie booksellers contacted by BTW enjoyed the upside of an increase in ...
Dec 02 2008: With politics and the economy foremost on the minds of many, it is no wonder that bailout—a word ubiquitously featured in discussions of the presidency and fiscal policy—took home honors as Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2008.
Dec 01 2008: Each year, as the holiday season comes around and the news stories start to dry
up, we look back into history for a snapshot of the news in centuries past, starting in 1608 ....
While the early settlers at Jamestown struggled for survival, London was a hive
of ...
Nov 21 2008: The shortlist for one of the few literary awards that writers don't want to win has been announced. The shortlist for this year's Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction award includes Simon Montefiore for Sashenka, John Updike for The Widows of Eastwick, Russell...
Nov 21 2008: Universal Pictures has made an overall deal with the estate of "The Bourne Identity" author Robert Ludlum that gives the studio exclusive rights to the Jason Bourne character and first look at other Ludlum novels.
The deal with Ludlum Entertainment paves the way for ...
Nov 20 2008: Barnes & Noble reported sales of $1.1 billion for their third quarter, and a net loss of $18.4 million. The results are below the company's previous guidance and analysts' diminished expectations--the operating loss of .21 a share compares to analysts' ...
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