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June 9, 2008

What do you use as a bookmark?

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This morning Shelf Awareness alerted its readers to a piece on the AbeBooks website about items that have been found in used books, long-forgotten by the original owner. $40,000, anyone? […]

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June 6, 2008 (June 13, 2008)

Popmatters reviews “Follow Your Heart”

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Joe Evans and Christopher Brooks’s Follow Your Heart received an 8 out of 10 from Popmatters. “The life of Joe Evans is intriguingly scattershot and full of cameos from celebrities […]

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June 5, 2008 (June 5, 2008)

The Times Literary Supplement reviews two new Dreiser volumes

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The May 30, 2008, issue of The Times Literary Supplement includes a joint review of Theodore Dreiser’s A Picture and a Criticism of Life: New Letters, Volume 1 edited by Donald Pizer, […]

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June 4, 2008 (June 10, 2008)

Results not Typical by Brian

BookExpo

Hello. I’m a first time BEA — BookExpo America — attendee. I need to get a couple of things out of the way. First, I am not a publisher, bookseller, […]

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June 4, 2008 (June 13, 2008)

Hazel Dickens to appear on “Jubilee”

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A Hazel Dickens performance filmed in Owensboro, Kentucky, during the summer of 2007 for Jubilee will air on KET June 18, 2008. Hazel’s new book book with Bill Malone, Working Girl Blues: […]

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May 30, 2008 (June 13, 2008)

Welcome to the weekend

BookExpo

Five hour flight delay on Wednesday. All materials arrived safely by Thursday. Setup. Lunch. Setup a little more. Los Angeles print publicity panel. Use freakish height to hang lights for a fellow university […]

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May 29, 2008 (June 5, 2008)

“Making Space on the Western Frontier” wins a Mormon History award

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Mormon-Chronicles reports that W. Paul Reeve’s Making Space on the Western Frontier: Mormons, Minors, and Southern Paiutes won a Best First Book award from the Mormon History Association.     […]

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May 28, 2008 (May 29, 2008)

UIP author’s play opens off-Broadway

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Lisa Thompson, author of the forthcoming UIP book, Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class, celebrates the opening of her play, Single Black Female, off-Broadway […]

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May 27, 2008 (August 20, 2008)

E-book distribution, plus comments

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On The New York Times online Technology page, David Pogue relays his experience releasing books in electronic form. Many reader comments follow. “Twice in my career, ‘blind’ people e-mailed me, requesting […]

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May 26, 2008 (June 3, 2008)

White valedictorian at Morehouse College

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Stephane Dunn, author of the forthcoming University of Illinois Press book “Baad Bitches” and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films, contributed a commentary to NewsOne.com about Morehouse College’s white valedictorian […]

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May 23, 2008 (June 13, 2008)

Jack Forbes at the UC Davis Bookstore

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Jack Forbes, author of The American Discovery of Europe, spoke recently to a crowd of fifty patrons at the UC Davis Bookstore.  Tradebooks buyer Paul Takushi captured the event.       […]

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May 23, 2008 (September 10, 2008)

Microsoft to shut down Live Search Books

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PW Daily reports that Microsoft is ending its Live Search Books program. “Microsoft will be providing publishers with digital copies of their scanned books, and is working with Ingram Digital, […]

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