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Bloomberg exec in talks to run New Corp's Dow Jones
(Reuters)
27 Jan 2012 at 4:23pm
Reuters - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is in "serious talks" to poach veteran Bloomberg LP executive Lex Fenwick to run its Dow Jones publishing business, which houses the Wall Street Journal, according to two people familiar with the discussions.
Ala. attorney questions death penalty in new book
(AP)
27 Jan 2012 at 12:24pm
AP - After defending more than 60 people charged with capital murder and getting three men off Alabama's death row, attorney Richard Jaffe wants to get people talking about the death penalty and what he believes are its flaws.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS
(AP)
26 Jan 2012 at 3:16pm
AP - 1. "Private: Number 1 Suspect" by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown)
USA TODAY BEST-SELLERS
(AP)
26 Jan 2012 at 3:15pm
AP - 1. "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLERS
(AP)
26 Jan 2012 at 3:15pm
AP - Best-Selling Books Week Ended Jan. 28th.
"Private: #1 Suspect" tops Bestsellers List
(Reuters)
26 Jan 2012 at 11:08am
Reuters - "Private: #1 Suspect" soared to the top spot of the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list on Thursday.
Book Talk: The fall and rise of a North Korean Everyman
(Reuters)
26 Jan 2012 at 7:24am
Reuters - Pak Jun Do is a dutiful North Korean. Raised in an orphanage, he follows orders to become a soldier, a kidnapper of Japanese citizens and an intelligence officer, once submitting to being bitten by a shark to prove his loyalty.
New library e-catalogs offer expanded selection
(AP)
25 Jan 2012 at 9:08am
AP - Library users searching for e-books will soon get to look through a much bigger catalog and help decide what their local branch might carry.
Novelist Andrew Miller wins UK Costa Book Award
(AP)
24 Jan 2012 at 2:54pm
AP - Author Andrew Miller on Tuesday won Britain's lucrative Costa Book Award for his historical novel, "Pure," set in Paris in the years leading up to the French Revolution.
Novel "Pure" wins Costa prize amid "bitter dissent"
(Reuters)
24 Jan 2012 at 12:32pm
Reuters - Andrew Miller's novel "Pure" won the 2011 Costa Book of the Year Award on Tuesday, beating four other category winners after what the chair of judges described as "fierce debate".
Atlanta Jewish newspaper publisher resigns
(AP)
24 Jan 2012 at 7:25am
AP - The owner of a small Jewish publication in Atlanta is resigning over a column he wrote suggesting Israel might consider a hit on President Barack Obama.
Gantos' 'Dead End in Norvelt' wins Newbery Medal
(AP)
23 Jan 2012 at 12:10pm
AP - This year's winners of the top prizes in children's literature were honored for stories of resilience over the most everyday troubles: a boy grounded by his parents, a dog that loses its favorite toy.
Apple?s new textbook offering sees 350,000 downloads in three days, report sa...
23 Jan 2012 at 11:50am
Appolicious - It appears that Apple?s new digital textbook service is off to a flying start, with one research firm estimating that 350,000 textbooks have been downloaded after only three days since Apple announced iBooks 2.
Eugenides, Lethem among critics' awards nominees
(AP)
22 Jan 2012 at 6:33am
AP - Novelist Jeffrey Eugenides, science-technology writer James Gleick and the late historian Manning Marable were among the nominees announced for the National Book Critics Circle awards
Best-selling Indian author says banned writers not "heroes"
(Reuters)
20 Jan 2012 at 11:21pm
Reuters - Best-selling Indian writer Chetan Bhagat on Saturday criticised the support leant to authors whose books are banned for offending religious communities, a day after Salman Rushdie cancelled a trip to India citing threats against his life.
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