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  • E-readers gain traction, spur sales: poll

    2010-09-25 09:48

    Electronic readers have surged in popularity in recent years and will continue to gain traction with Americans, but they might remain a niche device coveted mostly by avid bibliophiles.

  • German author tackles identity, celebrity in "Fame"

    2010-09-21 09:18

    Authors may not enjoy the level of celebrity as other artists, but that hasn't stopped German literary sensation Daniel Kehlmann from wryly reflecting on fame and how it changes people in his new novel.

  • Moving on to greener pastures

    2010-09-20 09:49

    The year was 2006. Jiang Juechi finally decided to leave her Tibetan students on a remote grassland in Sichuan province and head home to East China's Anhui province.

  • Financial crisis dominates business book shortlist

    2010-09-17 08:57

    The financial crisis dominated the shorlist of six books nominated for the 2010 Business Book of the Year Award announced on Thursday.

  • Journalist and author Edwin Newman dies

    2010-09-16 08:57

    Journalist Edwin Newman, who helped anchor NBC newscasts for three decades with a reputation as an articulate, fair interviewer and a trusted moderator of U.S. presidential debates, has died, NBC said on Wednesday. He was 91.

  • Book bonanza for Xinjiang on the cards

    2010-09-15 09:50

    Readers in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region will soon have access to the nation's latest books, journals, audio-visual materials and photographs.

  • Obama to release children's picture book in November

    2010-09-15 09:31

    President Barack Obama will release a children's picture book, inspired by his two daughters, that pays tribute to 13 influential Americans, publisher Random House said on Tuesday.

  • World's most expensive book to go under the hammer

    2010-09-13 10:01

    A rare book by America's most famous bird artist, John James Audubon, billed as the most expensive in the world, is going under the hammer in December alongside a first edition of Shakespeare's plays.

  • Digging deeper

    2010-09-10 09:29

    Jia Pingwa's new novel, while set in the much-explored period of the 'cultural revolution', ponders the reasons for its rapid spread.

  • Two-time Booker winner Carey tops 2010 shortlist

    2010-09-08 09:06

    Two-time Man Booker winner Australian author Peter Carey, Emma Donoghue and Andrea Levy go head to head in a final field of six authors vying for one of the world's most influential literary prizes.

  • Reading into new local realities

    2010-09-06 09:31

    The nation is increasingly turning to its publishing industry to promote better understanding with the rest of the world and present a mature image.

  • A new chapter in literary exchange

    2010-09-06 09:31

    Within minutes of the inauguration of the Indian stand - designed to resemble a typical rural Indian courtyard, with images etched in relief on the faux mud walls - at the Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF), those manning its neat stalls began receiving questions.

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