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rod4burb@googlemail.com — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:35:44 +0100

How To Sell A Book? Good, Old Word Of Mouth (NPR)

Barnes & Noble in fresh spat with Burkle (Financial Times)

The Fallen Status of Books (Slate)

Austrian kidnap victim draws crowds to book reading (Reuters)

In Adding Book Section, the Wall Street Journal Bucks Trend (New York Times)

Wiley Has Good Start to Fiscal 2011 (Publishers Weekly)

Canadian iBookstore und [...]

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rod4burb@googlemail.com — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:25:58 +0100

Handling holy books such as a Quran or Bible is a touchy subject (Florida Times-Union)

Robinson denies she received €1m for memoirs (Irish Times)

If Self-Published Authors Owned the Midlist (Forbes blog)

Tony Blair made the right decision to cancel his book party. They're a complete waste of time (Daily Telegraph blog by Toby Young)

Publishers, brands, and the change to b2c (IdeaLogica [...]

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rod4burb@googlemail.com — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:16:29 +0100

Hilary Mantel on winning the 2009 Man Booker prize (Daily Telegraph)

Schools across Kent told to borrow books from libraries (BBC News online)

Barnes & Noble faces $100m Riggio bill, bankers say (DealReporter via FT.com)

Christchurch Writers Festival cancelled as booksellers recover from quake (Bookseller+Publisher, subscription required)

A life in books: Tim Waterstone (the Guardian)

Reed i [...]

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rod4burb@googlemail.com — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:56:16 +0100

Waterstone's has forgotten what bookselling is about (The Guardian Robert McCrum blog)

Six-month results of the five largest US trade publishers analysed (Publishers Weekly)

Industry Stocks: August performance (Publishers Weekly)

Bury St Edmunds library reopens after £2m refurbishment (BBC News Online)

Ray Bradbury, 90, is still chasing Martians (StarTribune.com)

Popular [...]

Swiss UBS ad features Legend Press author Zoe Jenny

nick@bookbrunch.co.uk — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0100

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rod4burb@googlemail.com — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:27:59 +0100

Tim Waterstone 'keen to buy back stores' (again) (The Independent)

Larry Ashmead, Editor With an Eye for Talent, Dies at 78 (New York Times)

Gail Rebuck: Power Behind The Prose (The Independent)

In an over-crowded, muzak-infested world, reading rooms are an oasis (The Guardian)

Sony finally brings its e-readers to Australia (The Canberra Times)

Cherie Blair in £800 court battle over Lord Mandelson's [...]

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rod4burb@googlemail.com — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:05:38 +0100

Tony Blair's A Journey breaks sales records (Daily Telegraph)

Borders Working to Redefine Store Model (Publishers Weekly)

Apple Boasts of 35 Million E-Book Downloads, Ditches iTunes Logo (New York Observer)

I write a nasty book. And they want a girly cover on it, writes Lionel Shriver (The Guardian)

Dan Brown 'most unwanted author', says Oxfam (Daily Telegraph)

Bu [...]

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rod4burb@googlemail.com — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:02:29 +0100

Borders Posts Quarterly Loss on 12 Percent Decline in Revenue (Bloomberg)

Publishers Struggle to Adapt to E-Books (and So Do Book Lovers) (New York Times)

Publishing Trends? I Haven't Got Any Ideas, says Benjamin LeRoy (Huffington Post blog)

Twist in the tale for digital reading (Financial Times)

Sony renews fight for e-reader territory (Financial Times)

Stig court case: BBC loses ba [...]

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rod4burb@googlemail.com — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:30:06 +0100

Tony Blair publication day stories (Independent, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Daily Express, Sun, Daily Mirror)

Tony Blair Memoirs - A Bluffers Guide (Wall Street Journal blog)

Does a book's popularity guarantee its movie's success? (Los Angeles Times)

How do you sum up a life story in two words? (or what's in a book title [...]

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rod4burb@googlemail.com — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:50:15 +0100

Burkle says no plans to control Barnes & Noble (Reuters)

People who know how borrowing books helped to transform their own lives now need to hold their councils to account (Guardian Editorial)

Reading Agency defends libraries' impact on literacy (The Guardian)

Publishers confirm that print dictionary market is disappearing so third edition of the OED is unlikely (The Guardian)

Eat Pray Love [...]

Trailer: The Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor

nick@bookbrunch.co.uk — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0100

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nick@bookbrunch.co.uk — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:03:39 +0100

Publishers are more relevant than ever in the digital era. (Ursula Mackenzie, Guardian)

Andrew Wylie blew his big chance. (BNET)

The new Kindle offers the best E Ink screen, the fastest page turns, the smallest, lightest, thinnest body and the lowest price tag of any e-reader. (New York Times)

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nick@bookbrunch.co.uk — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:32:30 +0100

Random House may have stopped Andrew Wylie publishing ebooks by its authors, but the question of who owns digital rights in works written before the ebook era remains. (Sarah Weinman, Daily Finance)

Interview with Peter Collingridge of Enhanced Editions (which produced
ebooks for Andrew Wylie's Odyssey). (Publishing Perspectives)

iAds may appear in iBooks. (CNET)

The London Libraries Change Programme, which now enter [...]

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nick@bookbrunch.co.uk — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:20:32 +0100

If we hold fast to the idea that libraries have to be lovingly cared for and decently resourced, the idea of inexorable decline can be contested. (John Harris, Guardian)

Barnes & Noble posts steeper-than-expected quarterly loss, says that proxy battle with Ron Burkle will put it even further in the red. (Reuters)

UK shoppers ordering wi-fi and 3G + wi-fi versions of the Kindle will have to wait until 17 September. (v3)

Research, [...]

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nick@bookbrunch.co.uk — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:04:53 +0100

HarperCollins will "vigorously defend" its right to publish The Stig's memoirs. (PA)

Some of the hostility to Tony Blair is madness. (David Aaronovitch, the Times, via the Australian)

Barack Obama's acceptance of an early copy of Jonathan Franzen's Freedom sets off "a small panic" in the publishing world. (New York Times)

With Amazon's new Kindle, I think they've more or less cracked it. (Sam Leith, Eveni [...]

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nick@bookbrunch.co.uk — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:24:18 +0100
The New York Times favours white male authors, according to Jodi Picoult. (Guardian) Also: Fairness
and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) claims that 95% of US authors of
politically themed books reviewed in the NYT are white, and 87% are
male. (NPR)

Are
Barnes & Noble founder Len Riggio and his nemesis Ron Burkle the
only people in America who still want to own a mega-bookstore? (New York)

Tony Blair's new book " [...]

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rod4burb@googlemail.com — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:21:44 +0100
The Highest-Paid Authors (Forbes)

Riggio to Burkle: I’ll See Your Proxy Fight and Raise You a Million Shares (bnet)

E-Publishing Consultant Mike Shatzkin Challenged: 'He Doesn't Understand Books' (Seattlepi blog)

Retail sales in July outstrip expectations to rise 1.1% (The Guardian)

Online sales hit three-year high (BBC Business News)

Andrew Franklin: Writing [...]

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rod4burb@googlemail.com — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:29:36 +0100
Get Ready for Ads in Books (Wall Street Journal)

Celebrated critic Frank Kermode dies aged 90 (The Guardian)

Battle of the books: E-books are lightweight, but do today's titles enlighten? (Washington Times)

Book festivals bring out the brains in Britons (The Guardian)

Eason in sales strategy revamp as turnover falls 16pc to €313m (Irish Independent)

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rod4burb@googlemail.com — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:59:33 +0100
Lord Mandelson's memoirs top choice for MPs' summer reading lists (The Mirror)

New libraries will deny children access to classics, fears Winterson (Herald Scotland)

Tony Blair book climbs bestseller chart after donation deal (The Guardian)

E-books are the future and Amazon dominates (MarketWatch)

Stand by for the new Hollywood hero – the publisher… (Terence Blacker blog)

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rod4burb@googlemail.com — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:10:05 +0100
Tony Blair's memoirs to provide largest ever donation for Royal British Legion (The Guardian)

Blair will 'significantly' reduce tax bill by giving book money to charity (The Telegraph)

Tony Blair's donation: guilt, piety – or both? (The Guardian, Michael White blog)

Jonathan Franzen Blasts Author Videos ... In His Own Author Video (Huffington Post)

Hundreds of libraries may be doomed (The Mirror)

Emma Tho [...]