Friday 29th August

Latest News

New Buying Team Structure Announced At Borders
www.booktrade.info

Borders UK announced today that it is restructuring the buying team at its Store Support Office

Sales Drop At Borders US, But Loss Cut
www.publishersweekly.com

Borders Group able to trim net loss in the second quarter

Rushdie Wins Apology - And Spurns Cash - In Libel Case
www.guardian.co.uk

4000 books pulped and unreserved apologies offered

Amazon To Acquire Book Networking Site
seattlepi.nwsource.com

Amazon.com is reportedly buying Shelfari, a social-networking site for book lovers

For an industry that is all about rights and content it is amazing that there is no authoritative rights database and clearing centre where anyone can establish who owns what

Where The Books World Ends
blogs.guardian.co.uk

Could Kettering be the least literary town in Britain?

Breaking Dawn And Burning Books
www.panmacmillan.com

Yes, burning books is just bad. It's not akin to a hate crime exactly, but it's still bad

Love Letters Of Great Men Now On Facebook
www.panmacmillan.com

This month Pan Macmillan published Love Letters of Great Men, inspired by the previously-fictional book featured in the Sex and the City film. And the book now has an accompanying Facebook application

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Opinion

Kindle Fails To Set Light To Unsold E-book Pile
www.theregister.co.uk

Evidence is mounting that predictions of iPod-grade sales and billion-dollar revenues were a smidge optimistic

'Piracy Could Kill The Golden Goose If Digital Rights Vanish'
www.independent.co.uk

Great content is being stolen, says Ashley MacKenzie, who examines the pitfalls of the rapidly increasing digital revolution and its impact on the entertainment industry. Will TV and film be its next victims?

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Obituaries

Pauline Baynes
www.independent.co.uk

Illustrator who depicted Lewis's Narnia and Tolkien's Middle-earth

Andrew Crozier
www.guardian.co.uk

Poet, publisher and rescuer of many forgotten works

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Feature Items

A True Obsessive
www.economist.com

The world's largest collection of cricket books

Surprising Allure Of Dylan Thomas' 'Sullen Art'
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

The extraordinary allure of all things connected to Dylan Thomas has left a powerful cultural trace around the globe

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Books in the Media

Sean Connery - You Only Live Once
scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com

If you question him about his past, he may accommodate your interest but he doesn't seem significantly to share it...

Chick Lit With An Edge
www.guardian.co.uk

Jane Fallon left her job as a TV producer to write novels she calls 'chick noir'. Her latest features a lying, deluded husband who, she tells Patrick Barkham, bears no resemblance to her partner, Ricky Gervais

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Latest Reviews

2b Or Not 2b?
books.guardian.co.uk

Despite doom-laden prophecies, texting has not been the disaster for language many feared

Nothing To Be Frightened Of By Julian Barnes
www.telegraph.co.uk

Julian Barnes's all too commonplace book

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