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'Girl with a Pearl Earring' to open in London theater in late September

Sep 01 2008: Girl with a Pearl Earring, a new play by David Joss based on the book by Tracy Chevalier will open at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London on 29th September for a limited one month season.

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Borders sales fall, stock rises

Aug 27 2008: The Wall Street Journal reports that in the second quarter (to Aug 2), sales at Borders Group bookstores fell 6.9% to $758.5 million with a net loss of $9.2 million, an improvement on the net loss of $25 million this time last year. The company said that though US ...

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Co-author of '100 Things to Do Before You Die' dies at 47

Aug 27 2008: Dave Freeman, co-author of 100 Things to Do Before You Die: Travel Events You Just Can't Miss (1999), which started a trend of similar books, died last week after falling and hitting his head. He was 47. Freeman's co-author, Neil Teplica, says, "you should live ...

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Amazon buys Shelfari

Aug 26 2008: Book social networking site Shelfari has announced that Amazon, already an investor, is buying the company.

Amazon also has a minority stake in LibraryThing which they acquired as part of the recent AbeBooks purchase a few weeks ago.

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12 bidders for Publishers Weekly's parent company

Aug 18 2008: Up to 12 bidders submitted first-round offers for Reed Elsevier's Reed Business Information division (parent company of Publishers Weekly and many other publications), which is valued at between $1bn and $1.25bn.

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Obama campaign publishes 40 page rebuttal to 'The Obama Nation'

Aug 17 2008: With the title Unfit for Publication, Senator Barack Obama's campaign has issued a 40-page rebuttal to The Obama Nation, authored by Jerome Corsi, who co-authored Unfit for Command, part of the "Swift Boating" campaign against John Kerry in 2004.

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Rushdie condemns cancellation of Muhammad novel

Aug 17 2008: Salman Rushdie strongly criticized his publisher for pulling a historical novel about the prophet Muhammad and his child bride over concerns about angering Muslims.

Rushdie, whose The Satanic Verses led to a death decree in 1989 from Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah ...

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NY Times critiques 'Obama Nation'

Aug 13 2008: Yesterday, The New York Times gave front page coverage to Jerome Corsi's new book The Obama Nation saying:

"In its timing, authorship and style of reporting, the book is strikingly reminiscent of the one Mr. Corsi wrote with John O’Neill about Mr. Kerry, ...

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