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Apr 07 2006: Sean Penn is planning to direct a movie based on Jon Krakauer's Into The Wild
Apr 07 2006: Scholastic, which disappointed investors in previous years by failing to hit its financial targets, announced third quarter earnings and warned that it will miss its projections for the current fiscal year. Higher promotion expenses in its book clubs, higher staffing ...
Mar 20 2006: World publishing rights to Alan Greenspan's forthcoming memoir have gone to Penguin Press for a rumored $8 million+. Although there is a certain caché to the acquisition, many question whether the book could really be ...
Mar 20 2006: Margaret Atwood successfully demonstrated her brainchild - the first long distance signing device known as The Long Pen (as mentioned in the last issue of BookBrowse Recommends) at the London Book Fair in early March. The idea came to her while on an ...
Mar 02 2006: Bookspan has reached a consent judgment with the Federal Trade Commission over the FTC's investigation into the book club's telemarketing activities. Bookspan has agreed to pay a $680,000 civil penalty for telemarketing activities that violated FTC standards between ...
Mar 02 2006: US author Peter Benchley, whose novel Jaws was made into one of Hollywood's most famous films, died on February 13, from complications relating to the pulmonary fibrosis that he was diagnosed with about a year ago. He was 65.
Raised in New York City and a graduate of...
Mar 02 2006: A new device allows authors to sign books long distance. The LongPen is a 'remote signing device' that consists of two units (each with a video screen) that lets the author sign with a magnetic pen on one machine, while the second machine duplicates the notation with ...
Mar 02 2006: On March 2nd Great Britain celebrated World Book Day, with twelve of the biggest names in fiction and non?fiction publishing short, fast-paced new books designed to encourage reluctant readers to get hooked on books. The twelve authors include Ruth Rendell, ...
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