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Hachette Backs Use Of Text-to-speech
www.publishersweekly.com

The Hachette Book Group Thursday morning issued a statement outlining its position on the text-to-speech question

Bookseller Awards Shortlists
www.bookbrunch.co.uk

The Bookseller has released the shortlists for the Bookseller Retail Awards

Government Bans Former Anti-terror Chief's Tell-all Book
www.guardian.co.uk

Court injunction on Andy Hayman's The Terrorist Hunters, which includes details of De Menezes and Litvinenko cases

Bookstore On Barge Is One Hull Of An Idea
www.expressandstar.com

Tales from the riverbank could be coming to a canal near you with the opening of a floating bookshop

Charging For Online Content Gets Closer
www.businessweek.com

Two startups, Journalism Online and ViewPass, aim to help battered publishers find ways to get paid for their Web offerings

The Library That Never Closes
www.guardian.co.uk

The Open Library hopes to unite the net and the printed word by creating a web page for every book

How Richard And Judy Changed What We Read
news.bbc.co.uk

Couple who changed Britons' reading habits

Authors Lobby Government For Statutory School Libraries
www.guardian.co.uk

Writers including Philip Pullman, Michael Rosen and Francesca Simon petition for universal provision

Alain De Botton Tells New York Times Reviewer: 'I Will Hate You Until I Die'
www.telegraph.co.uk

Alain de Botton, the philosopher and author, has launched an extraordinary internet attack on a book reviewer, telling him: "I will hate you until the day I die"

Grand Central Acquires Out-of-print Jackson Bio
www.publishersweekly.com

J. Randy Taraborrelli's currently-out-of-print biography on the superstar to be republished

James Frey And Co-writer Sell Series To Harpercollins
www.nytimes.com

North American rights to 'I Am Number Four' sold to HarperCollins Children's Books

Tower Warehouse Closure 'Confusion'
www.booktrade.info

Scribo Group confirms that Tower Books will continue in its own right in all business dealing with our publishing community

US Judge Bans 'Rye' Book Sequel
news.bbc.co.uk

A US judge has banned publication of a book promoted as a sequel to JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye

Bloomsbury To Buy Academic And Professional Publisher Tottel
www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk

Deal worth GBP9.96m

Penguin Launches First Standalone Premium Site For Puffin Imprint
www.nma.co.uk

We Make Stories is an interactive story-making site intended to encourage creativity and literacy among children

Old Dog, New Tricks
www.ft.com

HMV's extreme makeover seems to be working

'Classic' Study Of Whales Wins Samuel Johnson Prize
www.guardian.co.uk

Philip Hoare's Leviathan wins Britain's most important prize for non-fiction

Tower Books Warehouse To Close
www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au

Tower Books warehouse, based in Sydney, is due to close this month

Amazon Cuts Off Another State
www.thestreet.com

Do not piss off Amazon.com

Bad Science Is Good Bet For Samuel Johnson Prize
www.guardian.co.uk

Ben Goldacre's polemical attack on pseudo-science, already a bestseller, is 2/1 favourite to take the non-fiction award

Random Houses US Teams With Bookglutton For Promotion
www.publishersweekly.com

RH has joined forces with the social reading platform BookGlutton in an online promotion of Sarah Dunant's forthcoming novel

Dedalus Offers Publisher In Residence Opportunity
www.dedalusbooks.com

Go-ahead and innovative institutions interested in this unique opportunity would need to provide £35,000

Rising Sales Lift Profits At HMV
news.bbc.co.uk

Same-store sales were down 3.8% at its Waterstone's book shops

Precious Ramotswe To Publish Her Own Cookbook
www.telegraph.co.uk

The heroine of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels is to challenge celebrity food writers like Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson

Debut Authors Dominate Shortlist For Frank O'Connor Award
www.guardian.co.uk

Four out of six collections nominated for this year's short stories award are by first-time writers


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