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Archives: April 2007

Scene @ LA Times Festival of Books

Festival of Books Diary: Sunday AM

Festival of Books Diary: Late Saturday

World Voices: The Literary Side of Crime

Another Day, Another Possible Fake Memoir

Festival of Books Diary: Saturday PM

Festival of Books Diary: Saturday AM

The Perils of the Misblurb

Scene @ LA Times Book Prizes

Covering the Indian Publishing Scene

Woolworths Appeals to the Smaller Stores

London Arts Funding Takes Hit By Olympics

Scene @ How Sassy Changed My Life Party

Valenti Memoir Still on Schedule for June Publication

At Least One Publication is Expading its Book Coverage

Chabon Gets Rewrites

World Voices: Norway's Per Petterson Relaxes

At the Edgar Awards

Jesus: A Mensch and an Inspiration

World Voices: A Litblog Quorum

That e-Book thing Makes a UK Comeback, Sort of

Pearson Meets Own Expectations

OMD Wins Marketing Contract for HMV/Waterstone's

Socialite Rank Book in 2008?

Leslie Bennetts Strikes Back at NYT

Happy World Intellectual Property Day!

Gersh Agency Forms Literary Unit

This Summer, It's All About Diana

BookTV Live from LA This Weekend

LA Times Book Festival Preview

Former Ottakar's CEO Linked to Borders Bid

TODAY Show Launches Book Club for Kids

Publishing Industry Results from LBF

Writers Celebrate Their Inner * (Yes, It's an Inside Joke! Ha Ha, Get It? Inside!)

Wanna Crash a PEN World Voices Party?

Paul Edrman Dies at 74

For "Mommy Book" Authors, Buzz Doesn't Equal Sales

Scene @ Granta Young Novelists Party

"Freedom to Publish" Prize Too Hot for Iranian Publishers to Handle

Former White House Aide to Publish Memoir

Dzanc's New $5,000 Prize for Literary Do-Gooders

Here's A Vampire Anecdote to Gnaw On

Book Ban Fracas Ousts China's Chief Censor

Amazon Reverses Downward Spiral

Heroes Unveils 20-Year-Old Plot Twist

Scene @ The Paris Review Revel

TNR Floats "Gonzales Memoir Proposal"

Authors React to VA Tech Tragedy

Scene @ Alternative Press Expo

This Week's "Next Big Thing", the Gatsby Edition

Book Sales, Bookstores Continue Disconnect

Pulitzer Prize Winner Halberstam Dies in Car Accident

Chicago Tribune Books Section Moves to Saturday

Granta Picks Cowley as Editor; More on "Young Americans" issue

Teenage Boys Discover Sex Book in Library

Cussler Sales Claims Deflate, Balloon-Style

Harper in SF Looks For Further Christian Inspiration

Orange Broadband New Writers Award Shortlist

EU Commission Continues Investigation of Wolters Kluwer Buy

Bringing a World of Writers to New York

Michael Chabon: Bad for the Jews?

Waiting for the End of the World

For Some Young Literati, a Very Busy Week

Scene @ Forward Books Launch Party

"Blonde Brit Bombshells" Take Chicago

Scene @ the Teen Authors Prom

You Think Today's New Age Gurus Are Freaky?

Petition Circulating to Save AJC Books Section

Amazon Kills Plogs, Embraces Blogs

Vonnegut's Ghost Haunts NYTBR Pages

MySpace Saves Feminist Bookstore from Ruin

Rabbi Asks: How Is This Flight Different from All Other Flights?

Religious Publishers in Turkey Tortured, Murdered

Reaching Out for Rare Books

More Deets on GalleyCat's BEA Bash!

Outlook Still Dim for WHSmith

Crossing All Genres, One Book at a Time

U2's Broadway Debut: Spider-Man?

BBC-Banned Story Ends Up Online

Special Topics in Calamity Meteorology

Greenman's Topical Tunes Find Online Home

"Dear New York Review of Books, I Never Thought This Could Happen to Me..."

Dateline LBF: More Ego-tastic Guesses

Dateline LBF: "Double Digits" and Last Gasp Deals

Scene @ The New Yorkers Book Party

Meskis to Run Denver Publishing Institute

Courier Does Boffo 2nd Quarter Business

Dateline LBF: Ego-tistical

Dateline LBF: Amazon's Ebook Device Ready?

National Short Story Suppressed by BBC

Fox News Pees on Vonnegut's Grave

Atlanta Paper Releases Book Review Editor

Muldoon v. Leithauser: Versifying Showdown!

Vice Squad Ready to Book 'Em

Dateline LBF: Making Global Sense of it

Dateline LBF: Industry and Blogosphere Reactions

Dateline LBF: Further to the Dealmaking

Yann Martel's One-Man Book Club

Barbara's Bookstore Move to O'Hare Now Official

Borders Offers Unauthorized Harry Potter Books

Not Giving Up the Ghost

Free Ebooks: Not Just for Sci-Fi Anymore!

Brant Parker, 1920-2007

Collect Pulitzer, Advance to Public Library

First Oprah, Now a Pulitzer:
Sci-Fi Now Best of Mainstream Lit

Dateline LBF: Picture of the Day

Dateline LBF: Deals 'o the Day

Setting Off the "New British Catastrophe"

Dateline LBF: Earls Court Gets Thumbs Up

Kureshi Accuses BBC of Censorship

Orange Broadband Prize Shortlist

Bloomsbury Goes Digital

Pulitzer Prize Winners

Books into Theme Parks

More from "Scab" Writers; Also Agents & Editors

In NYT: B&N Stumbles, Anarchists Revel

Jodi, Jodi, Jodi

For Five Young Writers, a Library's Lions Roar

What Imus Exit Means for Publishing

Who Gives Away Books Online?
"Scabs," Says Prominent Sci-Fi Writer

EXCLUSIVE: Hendrix Clarifies "Scab"-rous Remarks on Web Publishing

POLL: Free Books on the Download?

Dateline LBF: Yet Another Prada Clone Makes the Rounds

Bankruptcy Puts OJ Auction on Ice

Dateline LBF: Day One Deals & Tidbits

Dateline LBF: New Independent Bookseller Buying Group

Possible Buyer for NZ Borders Stores

I Know Just How He Feels...

NY Authors Pay Tribute to Bolaño

Get Ready for a GalleyCat Gala!

Scene @ Poetry & The Creative Mind

Drinky Crow Set for May Cable Debut

New Biography Resource Online

What Works There Doesn't Here, and Vice Versa

OJ Simpson Book Rights Sought By Nicole's Estate

Little, Brown UK Going Open Plan?

...And Yet More Awards

Gardners Creates Digital Warehouse

National Short Story Prize Shortlists

Major Changes as Perseus Integrates PGW

Man Booker International Prize Contenders

Kurt Vonnegut Dead at Age of 84

Get Ready for Sebold's Sophomore Effort

Understanding Coelho's Appeal

Canadian Publisher to Destroy Plagiarized Book

Halliwell Turns to Kids' Books

Harry Potter Printer Struggling

Look, Another POD Person!

Scene @ Festival of Scottish Writing

Scene @ A.M. Homes' Book Party

London Book Fair Preview

BBC Audiobooks Coming to America

Cussler Ripped on Stand by Screenwriter

Media Wants to Click on Them

Escape POD

Polonium Makes Fiction Stranger than Truth

Two More Potential Lit Crit Hotties

Vidal Gets PEN/Borders Prize

PGW Overseas Units Get Buyers

Of Course It's About the Sales

LATBR Web Plans Unveiled

Century Pays Sky-High Advance for French Memoir

Peeking at The Books of Summer

Hotties of Literary Criticism: Your Nominees

Jane Wood Jumps to Quercus

BEA Forced to Cancel Bon Jovi Concert

Time Warner Unloads Bookspan on Bertelsmann

Mills & Boon Gets Texting

Indie Publishing Stars Win Iowa Prizes

Make Way for the Secret Parodies

No Settlement in Sight for Pooh Rights

Scene @ Expat Harem Martini Debut

Hughes & Hughes Eyes UK Borders stores

OFT Gets Going on Woolworths/Bertram Merger

Our Bosses Are Throwing a Party!

One of the Easiest Answers Ever Published

Publishers, Brooklyn Awaits You!

Chopping Down the Classics

Backspace Selects Two Literary Ingenues

This Week in AMS: More Time Requested, Victory for Nonconsentings

Defending the Hotties of Literary Criticism

When Career Expert Rivalries Turn Ugly

Now It's the Mother's Turn

Doing the Galleries with the Literati

Postal Changes Means Bad News for Used Booksellers

Another HarperCollins/Page Six Lovefest

New Novel from Pat Conroy

More Ideas, Fewer Celebs for Business Books

Johnny Hart, 1931-2007

Returns for New Harry Potter Capped, Just Like Last Time

Will The Secret History Repeat as Farce?

Five Years of One Story

Bookstore Closings in NY, SF, AZ

Second Thoughts on eBooks

Name That Hybrid

Starbucks to Sell Books in UK

Suddenly, OJ's Daughter Enters the Fray

Mickey Mantle's Literary Allure

Summer's Fiction Logjam

Scene @ Dani Shapiro's Black & White Party

B&N Owns Up to Stock Option Chicanery

Will McEwan's New Book Be Eligible for the Booker?

Motoko's Back in the Saddle Again

OFT Reprieve for THE Staff

Gourevitch Kicks Off Scottish Lit Fest

Arrests in India on Pirated Book Charges

Dan Conaway Flips from Editor to Agent

Publishing Gays: Not So Powerful Anymore?

Alex Ross Brings the Noise

Two of Us! Two of Us!

So What Happens to Bloomsbury Post-Potter?

We're Going To Need a New Name for This

Regan Publicists Officially Land @ Morrow

Another "New" Work from Nemirovsky

IMPAC Shortlist

NAL's New Mystery Imprint

OFT Refers Bertram/Woolworths Merger to the Competition Commission

Inaugural Asian Pacific American Book Festival Set for May 12

Don't You Dare Open that Potter

Does Giving It Away Really Help?

New Age Goes Hi-Tech

They Thought About MySpace,
And It Really Got Them Down

Columbia's Nancy Cunard Bio on the Rise

IPG Takes Bull By Its Horns

Salt Lake County Rescinds Book Selection, Author Invitation

Happy National Poetry Month!

Some Quick Hits from FishbowlNY.com

The Book Review is Debut-Happy

Steven Hall's Excellent Pre-Publication Adventure

Marketing to Teens is Tricky

Record Numbers for Dawn French's Memoir

Scene @ David Shapiro's Book Party

Bellow Prize to Roth

Year-End Results for Books-A-Million

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