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Archives: April 2009

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Online Poll Estimates 70 Percent of Kindle Readers Are Over 40

Anne Waldman Saves the Chapbook

Richard & Judy Release Summer Reading List

Edwidge Danticat and Salman Rushdie Headline PEN World Voices Festival

Everything You Wanted to Know About Wolverine But Were Afraid to Ask

Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner Announced

Poet Craig Arnold Disappears in Japan

How to Build a Better Literary Panel Discussion

The Barack Obama Book Club

Now, Let Us Talk Like Good Friends at Tosca

W.W. Norton Offers Build-Your-Own Online Texbooks

PEN Festival Book Trailer Tips

Peter Brett Writes 100,000-Word Novel on Cell Phone

Amazon Coy about Stanza Plans

Evolving Deep Web Search Engine

"B" as in Beauty

Google Books Settlement Under Justice Department Review

In the Endcap Stands a Boxer

The Complete Works of Arlen Specter

Google and Authors Guild Agree on Extension

Honor Moore Combats "Male Approval Desire"

The Price Is Right

Serpent's Tail to Publish Hugo Chavez-Approved Bestseller

Is Amazon Preparing for Apple's Next Move?

2010 Christian Book Expo Canceled

The Future of Book Publishing

What Should Writers Blog About?

FishbowlLA: Festival of Books

Breaking: Amazon.com, Inc. Acquires Stanza Digital Reader App

Where Do You Go With 40,000 Readers?

Who Wrote the Book on Swine Flu?

Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington, David Cronenberg, and a Spy Novel

The Art of Local Book Promotion

Portfolio Magazine Has Closed

Celebrity Book Sales Decline in England

Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Awarded

Susan Boyle's Got Literary Buzz

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Kindle Ownership an Unreliable Marker of Literary Self-Importance

Book Stock Watch: Borders Executive Pay

Erica Jong Knocks Publishing Parity

Author Lee Woodruff Celebrates Twitter

The Most Successful Pre-Sell Tour Ever

Five Reviewers Walk into a Bar...

"Straw Dogs" Revives Out-of-Print Novel

The Fate of the Newspaper Science Fiction & Fantasy Review

Amazon's Net Income Up 28 Percent in Q1

John Lithgow Resurrects Mark Twain

International Protect a Poet Day

Former Newspaper Man Warns Publishers

J.G. Ballard Remembered

Broadway EIC Jumps to Simon & Schuster

Drenka Willen Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

Garry Trudeau Mocks Journalists on Twitter

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Hudson Street Press EIC Scores "America's Best Known Doctor"

Could Jack Black Play Ken Kesey?

Penguin Takes E-Books to China

Mark Gompertz Named Digital Publishing VP at Simon & Schuster

NYT Columnist David Pogue to Publish Twitter Book

Angelina Jolie to Star in Patricia Cornwell Franchise

Vladimir Nabokov's Notecard Novel

Book Hand-Sell Contest

GalleyCat in The Wall Street Journal

The Oprah Diss-Effect?

NY Times to End Stand-Alone City Section; Writers Mourn

Stewart O'Nan Judges "Hint Fiction" Contest

Book Applications Increase 280 Percent

New Yorker Artist Shops Presidential Pup Book

Reviving the Lit Fest Where Ray Met Tess

AvantGuild: LAT Columnist Entrusts His Story to Hollywood

Scene @ Alabama Book Festival

UK Digital Book Company Partners with Simon & Schuster in US

Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced

Inaugural Self-Publishing Book Expo Scheduled

Five Million Copies of New Dan Brown Book Coming in September

File Sharing Pioneers Sentenced to Jail and Damages

The Hugo Chavez Book Club

Personal Histories, With Recipes in Generous Portions

Statements Put in Positive Form: An Elements of Style Celebration

Novelist J.G. Ballard Has Died

AvantGuild: A Savant's Peek Behind the Curtain

The Literary Voices of Former Teen Prostitutes

Business Plus Hopes to Strike Free Download Gold

Memoirist's Debut Relocated; She Blames Cult in Queens

Operation Teen Book Drop Is Go!

Spector Son's Tell-All Surprisingly Not Titled "To Know Him Is To Love Him"

The Literary Scene in Inwood

Publishers Celebrate NaPoMo

"The Heartbreakers" Go to Hollywood

The Two Desks of Wells Tower

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Semifinalists Announced

Love and Marriage and Novels

Alyson Books Publisher on Amazon Error

Novelist Margaret Drabble Stops Writing

Chuck Palahniuk Launches Design Contest

Book Sales Slide 10.8 Percent in February

Pitch Contest Counts 300 Submissions in Four Hours

Banned Books Week Founder Has Died

Moody's Downgrades Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Rating

Friends Remember Nicholas Hughes

English PEN Builds Case for Libel Law Reform

Amazon Worker Details Company's Error

Saving Jobs, Saving Trees, One Galley at a Time ...

Alisa Valdes Rodriguez

Amazon Admits "Ham-Fisted Cataloging Error"

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Has Died

Tie for Philip K. Dick Award

The Post Boom Culture Novel

Publishing Journalist Derek Weiler Has Died

#Amazonfail Furor Dominates Twitter

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal To Write Book

New Kurt Vonnegut Book

#Amazonfail: A Personal Perspective

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Amazon Anger Rises on Twitter

Book Stock Watch: Noble Rumors

Arthur Phillips Reads with Music

Waiting for the End of the World

PBS Special Draws on Library of America's Lincoln Collection

Can "Newsbooks" Save Journalism?

Poetry Showdown at New York Magazine

O. Henry Prize Stories Partners with PEN American Center

Quirk-y Assignment Lands Author a Two-Book Deal

The Dead Create Personalized Tour Books

Meghan McCain Scores "High Six Figure Deal"

An Internet Movie Database, for Books

Stephenie Meyer Sold 16 Percent of all Books Last Quarter

Lukas Prize Project Awards Announced

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio Joins PEN World Voices Line-Up

Rumors of Digital Reader from Barnes & Noble

First Glimpse of Stephen King's Next Novel

Guggenheim Fellowship Winners Announced

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Mary Roach on Writing Her Own Sex Scene

Twitter Book: Poetry Edition

Author Defends Agents

Matthew Lore Launches New Trade Publisher

Why The Recession Won't Kill Poetry (& Other Recent Media Appearances)

Agent Jarred Weisfeld on Rod Blagojevich's Book Deal

2009 Eisner Award Nominees Announced

An Unlikely Disciple Meets an Ex-Jehovah's Witness

Greg Bear to Write Three Video Game Novels

For These Two Authors, Cooking Gets Personal

Writing Handbook Aggregation

Spreadsheet Story Downloaded 10,000 Times

Writers House Opens UK Office

Novelist Colson Whitehead Pens TV Poetry

What Can Publishers Learn from Nine Inch Nails?

Scott Turow Jumps to Grand Central

Author Photo Confidential

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Barnes & Noble Launches Local Initiative

Agent-for-a-Week Contest

Amazon eBook Boycott Debated

33 UK Layoffs at Random House

HarperCollins to Posthumously Publish Michael Crichton Novels

Writers Largely Absent from Universal Record Database

Gabriel García Márquez Denies Rumors

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Scholastic Book Fair Sales Hold Steady

Doree Shafrir on Book Party Hosting and Mothers

Amazon Customers Boycotting eBooks over $9.99

Writers Send 700 Books to Afghanistan

Book Trailer Theater: Celebrity Match

Hundreds of Writers Pool Agent Complaints

Borders Clarifies about Waldenbooks Closures

Gabriel García Márquez May Not Publish Again

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Captain Chesley Sullenberger to Appear at BookExpo America

Literati-A-Go-Go!

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt CEO Tony Lucki Will Retire

Finalists for £100,000 Award Announced

Bill O'Reilly Plans Barack Obama Book

Denise Oswald Joins Soft Skull Press/Counterpoint as Editorial Director

Borders May Close Hundreds of Waldenbooks Stores

Will Long-Form Journalism Survive?

April Publishing Foolishness, Part Deux

Overlook Press Founder on Obfuscation

Agent Kate Lee on Microblogging Books

HarperCollins and EW Launch Book Trailer Contest

April Publishing Foolishness

Globe Pequot Group Publisher Heads to McGraw-Hill

Cuts and Anger at University of New Mexico Press

National Poetry Month Begins

Borders Total Sales Fell Nearly 13 Percent Last Quarter

Now That's What We Call a Book Party

Grove/Atlantic "Opens the Floodgates" for Great American Novelist

True Love Takes a Detour to the Courtroom

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