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Bullshit Sells Well

May 18 2005: The surprise bestseller On Bullshit by Princeton philosophy professor, Harry G Frankfurt, continues to sell well. It was first published, under a different title, in the American Scholar in 1986; but was published with its current, and undoubtedly catchier, title in ...

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Small & large publishers complain about Amazon's 'voluntary' promotions program.

May 04 2005: According to Publishers Weekly, Amazon requires publishers to contribute co-op dollars of approximately 3% of their Amazon sales for the previous year - or risk not appearing in search results. These dollars can be used in a variety of ways but the most popular for ...

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New TV series set in a bookstore.

Apr 20 2005: The new Fox TV series, Stacked (starring the well endowed Pamela Anderson, with the tagline - You can't judge a book by its cover, especially when it's only covered by a miniskirt and baby-tee!) launched last week in a six week pilot. Set in a bookstore, the plot ...

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Oprah starts publishing books

Apr 20 2005: With Oprah's success promoting other people's books, many have felt it was only a matter of time before she published a book herself - and now she (or more accurately the publishers of 'O' Magazine: Hearst Magazines & Harpo Print) is doing so. Live Your Best Life, a ...

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Amazon to publish short pieces

Apr 06 2005: Amazon appears to be getting ready to start publishing short pieces of work, such as stories and essays, and selling them for micro-payments of 49 cents each. The material would be exclusive to Amazon and not available in printed form. According to Publishers Weekly, ...

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Financial Settlement for Freelance Writers

Apr 06 2005: After more than three years of class action infringement suits a final settlement has been reached that will award between $10 and $18 million to thousands of freelance writers whose articles were used in electronic databases without their permission.

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John Grisham trying his hand at non-fiction

Apr 06 2005: John Grisham is trying his hand at nonfiction - he is currently at work on a biography of Ronald Keith Williamson, a promising baseball player who spent 12 years on death row before DNA evidence exonerated him. The book has no title as yet and is scheduled for ...

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McCall Smith to have 10 books in print during 2005

Apr 06 2005: Alexander McCall Smith (author of the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series, and a wealth of other books) will have 10, yes 10, books published in the USA during 2005. In The Company of Cheerful Ladies. A hardcover of the 5th volume in the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency ...

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