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Booker Prize odds are in favor of British novelists; Zadie Smith is among cultural luminaries honored by the New York Public Library; ten stylish literary characters get their due; and other news.
HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster both report increased revenues; Pittsburgh welcomes a "second wave" of indie bookstores; the Kama Sutra is published as an audiobook for the first time; Taylor Plimpton throws his debut book launch in his father's old apartment; and other news.
Borders lays off one hundred more workers in Tennessee; Barnes & Noble goes up for sale; Seattle loves its libraries; Winston Churchill's written archive will be available online by 2012; and other news.
The Rumpus Book Club, launched in May by Stephen Elliott, offers a compelling twist on the traditional model of online book clubs. Members pay for two things: advance copies of new books, which they’ll receive a month before the official publication date, and access to the people who’ve written them.
New York's indie bookstore renaissance; the Brooklyn Book Festival announces this year's lineup of authors; Connecticut's attorney general looks into recent major e-book pricing deals; the NEA cuts funding for the Big Read program; and other news.
The USO is enlisting thriller authors to entertain the troops; a Montana poet embarks on a horseback book tour; Newsweek offers an excerpt from Mark Twain's autobiography; the Chinese writer and activist Liu Xianbin is transferred to another detention facility; and other news.
A Moscow poet is convicted of illegal militant activity; Barnes & Noble begins a bricks-and-mortar push for the Nook; Andrew Wylie threatens to grow his new publishing company; an online bookseller opens a retail store in Minnesota; and other news.
Kennedy Book Store in Kentucky celebrates sixty-five years in business; Amazon introduces the third-generation Kindle; a new dating site connects people through their taste in books; the ABA comes out against the Wylie-Amazon deal; and other news.
Skyhorse Publishing acquires Arcade Publishing; Random House gets a new publisher; Amazon is reportedly sold out of the Kindle; local bookstores come to the aid of North Carolina's Charlotte Mecklenburg Library; and other news.
No winner is named in New Zealand's 2010 Maori language book prize; Apple is accused of censorship again; the real-life wife of The Bookseller of Kabul is awarded damages for her portrayal in the book; saving wet books in Chicago; and other news.
