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Obscene Stories Or Free Speech?
news.bbc.co.uk

Civil servant Darryn Walker has been cleared of breaching the Obscene Publications Act with a story he wrote about Girls Aloud

Readers Pay A Price For Authors' Greed
www.theaustralian.news.com.au

Campaign by wealthy Australian authors against reforms that would enable Australians to buy cheaper books is all about feathering their nests

New Technologies Could Bring An End To Books
www.vancouversun.com

or save them

The Perils Of Five-star Reviews
news.bbc.co.uk

How much can you trust the customer reviews you read online?

J.D. Salinger Strikes Back
www.latimes.com

The author's legal action to stop a book about Holden Caulfield seems a little too extreme

Say Yes To 'Google Books'
mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com

Roy Blount, the president of the US Authors Guild, argued that criticism was unwarranted

Genre Fiction Vs. Literary Fiction
www.themillions.com

Are the lines beginning to blur?

Why Size Matters
www.bookbrunch.co.uk

It would be to everyone's advantage if publishers applied themselves to the needs of those who are sight-impaired

Booksellers Get Down To Business
www.guardian.co.uk

WH Smiths' deal to stock only Penguin guidebooks at its travel shops is justified in an era of piling high and selling cheap

Path To The Future
www.publishersweekly.com

Publishers: stand up and defend the Google settlement

Why Governor Schwarzenegger Is Right To Ban Books
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

A budget-cutting move promises an end to textbooks in California's classrooms. How wise

Publisher Defends Google Books 'Sell Out'
www.theregister.co.uk

Fox raising chickens is good for chickenhood, says exec

It's Way Too Soon For Arnold Schwarzenegger To Say Hasta La Vista To Books
www.telegraph.co.uk

Ceri Radford says that Arnold Schwarzenegger is doing pupils a disservice with his plan to abolish real books

Sorry, But Books Are There In My DNA
www.timesonline.co.uk

Kindle e-books may be terrific but the printed word will never die

Creative Britain Must Be Kept In Good Health
www.independent.co.uk

The departing Culture Secretary Andy Burnham says we cannot afford to waste the creative talent of a new generation

Meet The Readers? No Thanks
www.guardian.co.uk

There is now an inexhaustible public appetite for meeting writers, in tents and church halls

Why Write Books?
www.forbes.com

It didn't feel like a dying industry...

Britain Chills Free Speech
online.wsj.com

Libel tourists flock to the U.K. to avoid public scrutiny

Why Do My Son's Books Tell Him All Men Are Useless?
www.dailymail.co.uk

When fathers do appear they are often withdrawn, or obsessed with themselves, or just utterly ineffectual

Oh For Those Days Of Catfights And Sequinned G-strings
www.telegraph.co.uk

They don't make bonkbusters like they used to, writes Rowan Pelling

Please Count Me Out Of The Ross Book Club
www.independent.co.uk

A surreal car-crash of ideas, formats and platforms

We Must Make E-books Pirate-proof
www.guardian.co.uk

Publishers must learn from the mistakes of the music industry and protect e-book copyrighted content from thieves

Why Le Carré Beats Fleming Hands Down
www.telegraph.co.uk

Eight John le Carré novels are currently being dramatised on BBC Radio 4, bringing to life his thoroughly British and comical anti-hero George Smiley

How Intolerable Life Would Be Without Books And Bookshops
www.guardian.co.uk

Now the literary festival season is in full swing, we should recognise that the real worth of dusty tomes is sensual, not financial

Where Are All The Nice, Normal Dads In Children's Books?
women.timesonline.co.uk

Fathers in children's books are rarely positive figures. But as dads do more childcare, it's time publishers took note


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Book Trade News

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

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