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Book Trade News
Hachette Backs Use Of Text-to-speech The Hachette Book Group Thursday morning issued a statement outlining its position on the text-to-speech question
Bookseller Awards Shortlists The Bookseller has released the shortlists for the Bookseller Retail Awards
Government Bans Former Anti-terror Chief's Tell-all Book 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 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 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 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 Couple who changed Britons' reading habits
Authors Lobby Government For Statutory School Libraries 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' 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 J. Randy Taraborrelli's currently-out-of-print biography on the superstar to be republished
James Frey And Co-writer Sell Series To Harpercollins North American rights to 'I Am Number Four' sold to HarperCollins Children's Books
Tower Warehouse Closure 'Confusion' 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 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 Deal worth GBP9.96m
Penguin Launches First Standalone Premium Site For Puffin Imprint We Make Stories is an interactive story-making site intended to encourage creativity and literacy among children
Old Dog, New Tricks HMV's extreme makeover seems to be working
'Classic' Study Of Whales Wins Samuel Johnson Prize Philip Hoare's Leviathan wins Britain's most important prize for non-fiction
Tower Books Warehouse To Close Tower Books warehouse, based in Sydney, is due to close this month
Amazon Cuts Off Another State Do not piss off Amazon.com
Bad Science Is Good Bet For Samuel Johnson Prize 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 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 Go-ahead and innovative institutions interested in this unique opportunity would need to provide £35,000
Rising Sales Lift Profits At HMV Same-store sales were down 3.8% at its Waterstone's book shops
Precious Ramotswe To Publish Her Own Cookbook 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 Four out of six collections nominated for this year's short stories award are by first-time writers |
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