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Hippo and Tortoise Freindship Inspires Book

Feb 15 2006: An unlikely friendship sparks the creation of two books.  Over the last year a baby hippo named Owen and Mzee, a 130-year-old male Aldabra tortoise whose name means wise old man in Swahili, have become inseparable.  Their friend began in the aftermath of...

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Time Warner Book Group acquired by Hachette

Feb 15 2006: Last week, Lagardère, the French owner of Hachette Publishing, acquired the Time Warner Book Group for $537.5m - about $235 million more than Bertelsmann and/or Perseus were willing to pay for TWBG in 2003. Since that time, TWBG has strung together two record...

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Case Against Author Orhan Parmuk Dropped

Feb 03 2006: Turkish prosecutors have dropped their case against author Orhan Pamuk, who was put on trial for denigrating his country in comments he made to a Turkish newspaper (amongst other things he spoke of his country's persecution of Kurds in the 1980s). His high ...

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Donald Trump Sues Warner Over TrumpNation

Feb 03 2006: Donald Trump has filed a defamation of character claim against Warner Books and author Timothy L O'Brien over TrumpNation published in late October. Trump's main grievance appears to be that in the book, and in an October article in the New York Times, O'Brien ...

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James Frey Controversy Winds Down

Feb 03 2006: The saga of James Frey's books appears to be close to running its course with both the publisher and author making statements, in which the publisher essentially says they didn't know, and the author says that his memoir "is a combination of facts about my life ...

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More Memoirs Face Scrutiny

Feb 03 2006: The authenticity of three memoirs written by Nasdijj (The Blood Runs Like A River, Geronimo's Bones and The Boy and The Dog Are Sleeping) were revealed to be fraudulent by an article in LA Weekly.  It transpires that 'Nasdijj' (who claimed to have been...

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Playwright and Author Wendy Wasserstein Succumbs to Cancer.

Feb 03 2006: After her months-long bout with cancer, playwright and author Wendy Wasserstein died last week aged 55. She will be remembered for her caustic wit and the uncommonly strong female characters she created in popular plays like The Heidi Chronicles and The Sisters ...

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Peter Pan Sequel in the works

Jan 18 2006: When J.M. Barrie died he bequeathed the rights to his book, Peter Pan, to Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).  Last week they announced the first officially sanctioned sequel, to be written by the award-winning children's author Geraldine McCaughrean, ...

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