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After reporting on the BookExpo America for three days, Hillel Italie notes in an Associated Press wire story, “As the book world winds up its annual national convention, some retailers… Read more »

Just as American booksellers and publishers began their biggest annual gathering — the BookExpo America convention — Oprah Winfrey surprised them by announcing her latest Oprah’s Book Club choice as… Read more »

“Two men were arrested after shots were fired in a terrifying gunfire incident after a Sun reporter went to meet two men selling a stolen copy of the long-awaited new… Read more »

HarperCollins “plans to launch a pilot program aimed at creating wireless Internet hotspots in and around bookstores for use by consumers,” according to a brief report in Crains. The publisher,… Read more »

A previously unknown, 1,000-page novel by Three Musketeers author Alexandre Dumas has been published in France, reports an Agence France Presse wire story. The novel, Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine, was… Read more »

“Why are fewer translated works being published these days, and what can be done to reverse the trend?” In a report for The New York Sun, Gary Shapiro covers the… Read more »

The BBC News offers a profile of Ismail Kadare, the winner of the recently awarded, first-ever Booker International Prize. According to the Beeb, the expatriate writer is “often cited as… Read more »