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Longlist for Samuel Johnson Prize, the leading UK non-fiction awards, announced

Sep 19 2012: The longlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2012 has been announced today, Tuesday 18 September, the birthday of Samuel Johnson. The 14 titles on this year’s longlist take readers around the world to countries including India, Russia and Spain, and ...

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Poet Louis Simpson dies aged 89

Sep 18 2012: Louis Simpson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose work often explored the darker side of life in the US suburbs, has died at his New York home aged 89.

He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1964 for his fourth collection At the End of the Open Road.

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Amazon collecting sales tax in California from today

Sep 15 2012: Amazon and other large online retailers will begin collecting sales tax in California today. At the time California Governor Jerry Brown signed the sales tax fairness bill in September 2011, American Booksellers Association CEO Oren Teicher called the change "a huge ...

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55% of YA books bought by adults

Sep 14 2012: More than half the consumers of books classified for young adults aren’t all that young. According to a new study, fully 55% of buyers of works that publishers designate for kids aged 12 to 17 -- known as YA books -- are 18 or older, with the largest segment aged 30 to ...

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Man Booker Prize Shortlist announced

Sep 11 2012: The six titles on the 2012 Booker Shortlist have been announced:

Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists
Deborah Levy, Swimming Home (not yet available in US)
Hilary Mantel, Bring up the Bodies
Alison Moore, The Lighthouse (not yet available in US)
Will...

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Judge approves e-book pricing settlement between government and publishers

Sep 06 2012: In a decision that could start an e-book price war in the publishing industry, a federal judge on Thursday approved a settlement between the Justice Department and three major publishers in a civil antitrust case that accused the companies of collusion in the pricing of...

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"Sock puppet" reviews condemned

Sep 04 2012: Authors including Lee Child, Mark Billingham, Joanne Harris, Charlie Higson and Tony Parsons have signed up to a group statement condemning sock puppetry, the practice of writing reviews pseudonymously to praise one's own work and criticise that of others.

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Giller Prize longlist announced.

Sep 04 2012: The 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury announced its longlist of 13 books and authors today, having read 142 works of fiction submitted by 50 publishers from every region of Canada.

The finalists will be revealed on October 1.

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