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World Book Night's 2012 mission to take books to hardest to reach readers

Dec 07 2011: World Book Night founder, Jamie Byng, says there is a "very good chance" the book donation event will take place in "dozens" of countries by 2014.

Speaking with the UK publishing industry mag, The Bookseller, he said that the aim of the 2012 UK event is to "expand ...

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David Guterson wins Bad Sex in Fiction award

Dec 06 2011: An account of a frenzied encounter in a shower has earned US writer David Guterson the annual Bad Sex In Fiction Award for his novel Ed King, which takes the Sophoclean tragedy Oedipus Rex and transports it to late 20th Century Seattle.

On hearing of his win, ...

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Pennsylvania joins other states in starting to enforce sales tax collection on online and catalog retailers.

Dec 03 2011: The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue posted a Sales and Use Tax Bulletin on its website yesterday stating that it will soon begin enforcing sales tax collection "by any remote retailer, including catalogue and online retailers" with a physical presence in the state, ...

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Mukherjee's Emperor of Maladies wins Guardian First Book Award

Dec 02 2011: The only non-fiction title shortlisted for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award has taken home the £10,000 prize (~$16000). Sarah Churchwell, one of the judges, said: "The Emperor of All Maladies is a cultural history of cancer and its treatment, from its first ...

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Author Anne McCaffrey, creator of Pern, dies

Nov 23 2011: Anne McCaffrey, author of nearly 100 books, co-author of more than 30 and best known for the Dragonriders of Pern series, died on Monday at her home in Ireland. She was 85.

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Penguin cancels Kindle library lending - others may follow

Nov 22 2011: Overdrive, which distributes ebooks to libraries, announced yesterday that Penguin Group USA has instructed them to "disable 'Get for Kindle' functionality for all Penguin ebooks". Penguin also told them that "it is reviewing terms for library lending of their ebooks" ...

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Costa shortlist announced

Nov 17 2011: The Costa Book Awards have been announced. The list includes The Sense of an Ending, Tiny Sunbirds Faraway, and The Unforgotten Coat.

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Salvage the Bones wins National Book Award for Fiction

Nov 16 2011: Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones has won the National Book Award for fiction. Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve won for nonfiction. The poetry prize went to Nikki Finney's Head Off & Split and Thanhhai Lai's Inside Out & Back Again won for young people's literature.

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