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New Book from R.L. Stine

Jul 06 2005: R.L. Stine, author of the Goosebumps series (with more than 250 million copies in print - sufficient to get him listed in the Guinness Book of Records) and the Fear Street series, is not resting on his laurels - in the Fall he will publish the first book in his new '...

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Random House Donates Books

Jul 06 2005: Last month Random House (USA) donated 1.9 million books to 'First Book', a Washington D.C. based literary organization that provides free books to children in low-income families. A First Book spokesperson said, '"We are not trying to compete with publishers. One of the...

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Penguin Turns 70

Jun 15 2005: This year Penguin celebrates their 70th year providing quality paperbacks - each with the distinctive penguin on the cover.

In 1935, if you wanted to read a good book, you needed either a lot of money or a library card. Cheap paperbacks were available, but their ...

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Book Publishing Statistics

Jun 01 2005: According to Bowker (who describe themselves as North America’s leading provider of bibliographic information), 195,000 new book titles were published in 2004, up 14% year on year. The growth came mainly from small and mid-sized publishers, with the largest publishing ...

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Deep Throat - What Now?

Jun 01 2005: Now that W. Mark Felt has come clean that he was 'Deep Throat' the next question is when's he going to write a book and does anyone care either way? The answer seems to he probably won't (he is the author of one book about the FBI (The FBI Pyramid From The Inside), ...

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Google Print for Libraries Still Causing Storm

Jun 01 2005: Google Print For Libraries (Google's project to place large amounts of book content in its database and make it available in the form of 'snippets') continues to cause controversy. Not only are publishers concerned about the amount of information available to browsers ...

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Time Traveller's Wife becomes bestseller

May 18 2005: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger is a runaway bestseller with more than 2 million copies in print. In 2006 movie goers will be able to enjoy its convoluted storyline on screen in a film directed by Gus van Sant and starring Brad Pitt (Jennifer Aniston and ...

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Book Expo

May 18 2005: Interesting book news seems a little scarce at the moment - probably because the largest USA publishing industry trade show of the year, Book Expo America, is just around the corner (June 3rd-5th at the Jacob K Javits Convention Center in New York). Day passes range ...

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