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Apr 07 2006: The 2006 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winner in the Children's Literature category is Inkspell by Cornelia Funke (Scholastic/Chicken House), and the winner in the Children's Illustrated category is Zen Shorts by Jon J Muth (Scholastic).&#...
Apr 07 2006: Barnes and Noble plan to open 30-40 superstores in 2006 (including upgrades) and will close 15-20, for a net gain of about 20 stores. Borders plans to open 35 superstores in the USA and 10-15 overseas.
Apr 07 2006: The Campaign for Reader Privacy, the joint initiative of the American Booksellers Association, PEN American Center, the American Library Association, and the Association of American Publishers, is accusing President Bush of undermining the privacy safeguard amendments...
Apr 07 2006: April 12th is National Drop Everything and Read Day" in the USA, organized by Harper Collins and several other organizations, in honor of author Beverly Cleary's 90th birthday. The initiative is meant to encourage families to enjoy books together. Cleary's ...
Apr 07 2006: After enduring a months-long trial in London over claims that he had lifted the central idea for The Da Vinci Code from a non-fiction book, The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail, Dan Brown and his publisher, Random House, have received the expected outcome - with the court ...
Apr 07 2006: April 13 is the 100th birthday of Samuel Beckett, the great Irish playwright, poet and novelist and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize.
Apr 07 2006: Despite intense lobbying from the Society of Authors and Publishers Association, Britain's Competition Commission yesterday gave provisional approval to a proposed takeover of Ottakar's bookstore chain by HMV, the parent company of the country's largest bookseller, ...
Apr 07 2006: Author John Reynolds Gardiner died on March 4th, at the age of 61. He is best known for his 1980 novel Stone Fox(HarperCollins). He is also the author of Top Secret (Little, Brown) and General Butterfingers (Houghton).
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