Aug 11 2008: To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year, the UK trade publishing magazine, The Bookseller, has announced the "Diagram of Diagrams" – a public vote to find the oddest book title of the past 30 years.
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Aug 08 2008: The Edinburgh Book Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. It was founded as a biennial event and has become the largest festival of its kind in the world. This year's festival runs from the 9th to 25th August with appearances by Sean Connery, Charlie ...
Aug 08 2008: The Daily Telegraph (UK) reports on the 800-word Harry Potter prequel by JK Rowling (written for a charity fund raiser) that became the fastest-selling short story of all time when the entire print run of 100,000 copies was snapped up in a single day.
Aug 08 2008: The Wall Street Journal reports on how publishers are trying to encourage more boys to read by publishing particularly gory titles such as Vlad the Impaler: The Real Count Dracula, with graphic descriptions and blood-red ink stains.
Aug 07 2008: Publishers Weekly provides an update on the ongoing legal battle between Amazon and Booklocker. In May, Booklocker filed an antitrust lawsuit against the giant e-tailer because of Amazon's decision to make print-on-demand publishers use its BookSurge subsidiary to ...
Aug 06 2008: Media Bistro's Galleycat blog reports on the ongoing saga surrounding the recent cancellation of Sherry Jones's The Jewel of Medina, a fictional account of the life of Aisha, one of the Prophet Muhammad's wives who married him when she was nine years old. The book was ...
Aug 05 2008: It is estimated that Amazon have sold 240,000 Kindles so far. Adding the amounts spent on digital books, newspapers, and blogs purchased to read on the device, and the business is estimated to have brought in $100 million. An analyst at Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. predicts ...
Aug 04 2008: Hachette Book Group USA estimates that it sold 1.3 million copies of Breaking Dawn, on August 2, the day the eagerly awaited final novel in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga was released.
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