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Book News Archive
- links to book related news stories from around the world. 28.06.03 - 31.10.03. 31.10.03.
British Library archives websites...more 31.10.03.
Oxfam cashes in on books boom...more 29.10.03.Harry
Potter causing Hogwarts headaches?...more 27.10.03.
The US Postal Service unveil stamp celebrating the life and work of Dr. Seuss...more 27.10.03.
Historical Writings to Go under the Hammer...more 23.10.03.
Online retailer Amazon allows free searches in millions of pages...more 20.10.03.
Serial killer fights to publish book...more 20.10.03.
Unique Dylan Thomas bust found...more 20.10.03.
Tolkien, Rowling and Austen battle for top read...more 20.10.03.
'Book famine' for blind people...more 19.10.03.
Books bound to inspire. Project lets people fill pages with whatever they want...more 19.10.03.
The UK's top books are revealed...more 18.10.03.
Nicholas Clee on the latest news from the publishing industry ...more 18.10.03.
National Trust forfeits gift of rare books over hunting ban...more 17.10.03.Auction
of romantic manuscripts from Sherlock Holmes creator...more 17.10.03.
Booker winner pays his dues...more 16.10.03.
Tony Jones speaks to the winner of this year's Booker Prize, DBC Pierre...more 16.10.03.
Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader...more 15.10.03.A
tiny French-language catechism dating from 1583 found behind oak panelling at
a stately home went on display ...more 15.10.03.
War hero who inspired Fleming's Bond dies at 90...more 15.10.03.
Self-confessed conman DBC Pierre faces big cash rewards - and a queue of debtors
- as Vernon God Little wins the Booker...more 13.10.03.
The English Roses, Madonna's first attempt at writing a children's book, has been
selling like hotcakes -- and getting some surprisingly good reviews...more 13.10.03.
Teen novelist vanquishes Potter in US...more 13.10.03.
The worldly wise Henry James fleshed out ghost stories...more 12.10.03.
As the BBC prepares to reveal the nation's best loved books, The Observer has
compiled its own list of essential fiction from the past 300 years. Feel free
to disagree...more 11.10.03.
Afghani and Iraqi publishers struggle to print books again...more 11.10.03.
Nicholas Clee on the latest news from the publishing industry ...more 11.10.03.
Booksellers are often thought of, especially by themselves, as writers-manqués,
and yet there has been little speculation on what kinds of writer they failed
to become ...more 10.10.03.
Forget the namby-pamby girly stuff, here are ripping yarns for real chaps...more 09.10.03.
Ciaran Carson, the Belfast writer who has spent his life pondering the perfect
fry-up, yesterday won the Forward Prize, poetry's answer to the Booker...more 09.10.03.Two
New On-line Auctions: iGavel and Bradstreets...more 09.10.03.
Kamakura Period scroll, 1607 book found in Kanda store...more 09.10.03.
Protecting Ancient Forests at the Frankfurt Book Fair...more 08.10.03.
Little Bookshop of Horrors. How the Internet is changing (perhaps clear-cutting)
Seattle's bookscape...more 04.10.03.
Harry Potter turns green to save ancient woodlands...more 04.10.03.
Stories can change a life, says children's laureate Michael Morpurgo...more 03.10.03.
A civil liberties watchdog group is expressing concern over the San Francisco
Public Library's plans to track books by inserting computer chips into each tome...more 03.10.03.
Complaints Made That Two Library Books Promote Pedophilia...more 02.10.03.
Coetzee wins Nobel literature prize...more 02.10.03.
Hull heads list in bestselling 'crap map' of UK. Pocket-sized guide lays into
worst places to live...more 01.10.03.
Students are spending up to £135m of their annual book budgets on beer and fast
food, a survey suggests...more 01.10.03.
Syrian poet Adonis seen as Nobel prize frontrunner...more 01.10.03.
Rare books spark row with English university...more 30.09.03.
Aasne Seierstad, the best-selling author who's been attacked on several fronts
lately, says she will donate a major chunk of the money she's earned from "The
Bookseller of Kabul" to efforts to rebuild Afghanistan ...more 30.09.03.
The award-winning children's author Philip Pullman today launches a broadside
against the UK government's "brutal" school testing regime ...more 30.09.03.
SEATTLE — Before sending a warehouse-size load of old books to a recycler's grinding
mill last summer, Phil McMullin made a last-ditch call to online bookseller Amazon.com...more 29.09.03.
The Steiner family have owned the Antiquarian bookstore in Bratislava, for almost
150 years...more 28.09.03.
Bomb book tests U.S. free speech...more 28.09.03.
Two Victorian men of letters. One review from hell...more 28.09.03.
Restorer of Ancient Books Was 'a Man of Constant Curiosity' ...more 28.09.03.
Rewriting the history books in Baghdad...more 27.09.03.
Nicholas Clee on the latest news from the publishing industry ...more 27.09.03.
Service, not books, are librarian’s prime focus...more 26.09.03.
Scientists are decoding an ancient mathematics book that contains 2000-year-old
ideas that could have changed the course of history...more 26.09.03.No
new books for some UK county libraries due to the huge increase in the cost of
videos and DVD's...more 25.09.03.Beat
mystique endures at a San Francisco landmark...more
25.09.03.US
Library system puts used-book sales online...more 24.09.03.One
minute she's tonguing pop divas and the next she's Saint Madonna, patron saint
of mothers...more
24.09.03.
Laura Bush Urges Doctors to Prescribe Books ...more 23.09.03.
Harry Potter works his magic on young Chinese...more
23.09.03.
Banned books in the spotlight...more
21.09.03.
During Banned Books Week, a look at how US self-censors shape children's education...more
20.09.03.Dental
school may have ended up with stolen book...more 19.09.03.
A bookseller from Kabul who's upset over his portrayal in a bestselling Norwegian
book about him repeated claims he'll now file suit...more
17.09.03.
The world's largest bookseller, will open a new 20,000 square foot bookstore on
October 1st...more
16.09.03.
'King of Horror' wins US literary award ...more
15.09.03.
At 78, Laurent de Brunhoff has just finished his latest Babar book, the story
of a gallery filled with familiar but elephantine works of art...more
13.09.03.
At home with the Khans. Veronica Horwell is captivated by an Afghan family in
Asne Seierstad's The Bookseller of Kabul...more
12.09.03.
He started trading rare books on the Internet to American customers - and in one
week alone this month his sales were $2,800 - around £1,500...more 11.09.03.
"The English Roses", the first title in Madonna's five-book series published
by privately held Callaway Editions comes out Monday in what is expected to be
a headline-grabbing release...more 09.09.03
Historical treasure chest gives clue to American nation's birth...more
08.09.03.
A new survey has revealed that a quarter of UK adults have not read a single book
in the last 12 months...more
02.09.03.
It has lain in a Russian museum for almost a century, holding its secrets deep
within its pages. Now experts hope that an original manuscript will act as a talisman
for them and unlock the "real" writings of Sir Walter Scott...more 02.09.03.
Bob Storms takes his comic books seriously — and why not? They have made him some
serious money...more
02.09.03.
In a new book to be released later this month, Ms Porter has drawn up lists of
the most valuable books in Britain to help collectors and bargain-hunters spot
the valuable rarities among the worthless volumes. ...more 01.09.03.
Veteran Ezbekeya bookseller Amm Amin looks back at the decline of his trade. ...more
30.08.03.
Bookcrossing.com -- called "an unlikely sociology experiment," "instant karma"
and "an innovative attempt to make the whole world a library". ...more
30.08.03.
Despite scorching distractions the August book fair in London was modestly lively...more
30.08.03.
Only 19 pages survive of a book begun by Charlotte Brontë 150 years ago. Two tantalising
chapters - but who would be bold enough to pick up the story where a literary
legend left off?...more
30.08.03.
A visitor to the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow was left stunned when told a collection
of Beatrix Potter artwork he had was worth £250,000 (€36491), a book expert revealed
today...more
28.08.03.
A Little Piece Of Ground, written by award-
winning children's writer Elizabeth
Laird, is the subject of a campaign calling on the publisher to reconsider putting
out the novel...more 26.08.03.
"It's the best private golf library in the world"...more
26.08.03. Sir
Wilfred Thesiger, who died on Sunday aged 93, was the quintessential English explorerer
...more 24.08.03.
...While shopping in Boston, he rediscovered the pop-up book at a bookstore, scooped
it up and has been collecting outlandishly clever and funny pop-ups ever since...more 22.08.03.
As an online bookseller, Alibris competes in a market dominated by mega-sites
like Amazon ...more 21.08.03.
Turning over an old leaf. Used-book sales are growing as more people look to Web
pages for bargains...more 20.08.03.
A common enemy of the book collector is putrid odors in old books. Lucky for us,
paperbags, a newspaper and other easy-to-find household items can remove many
offensive odors. Here's how... more 19.08.03.
Pop-up Art. Eye-popping pop-ups...more 18.08.03.
World of books. Do the Germans still have the gift of telling stories?...more 16.08.03.
Comic book collector's find is a big issue...more 12.08.03.
Old books in a bind. It was thanks to the craftsmanship of the book repair experts
at the National Library of China that 161 volumes of the Yongle Encyclopedia were
restored in time for their 600th birthday this year...more 06.08.03.
Will bound books be displaced by technology at the world's libraries?
...more 06.08.04
A state archives official lost an eBay auction of two state trooper booklets on
civil rights-era protest figures...more 03.08.03.
The old bookshop's new site ...more 30.07.03.
65 years old and Beano favourites set to go global ...more 27.07.03.
Volumes of support for Iraq appeal...more 27.07.03.
Books spirited to safety before Iraq library fire...more 26.07.03.
Staying away in droves...more 24.07.03.
Drawing Dennis: The Beano at 65...more 19.07.03.
Investing in collectible comic books gets serious...more 18.07.03.
Kanda's used-book trade touts new survival ploys...more 17.07.03.
Seeking nirvana in a dusty bookshelf...more 16.07.03.
Set of signed Potter Books expected to bring £25,000...more 15.07.03.
Pottermania Ignites Secondhand Book Market ...more 12.07.03.
Spellbinding books. Clare Stewart on why rare first editions fire the imagination
of investors as well as readers ...more 05.07.03.
Blimey, how do I get into this book collecting lark? It is easier if you decide
on a particular genre, say, children's books, travel books... more 03.07.03.
Auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull sell the diary of an 18th-century gap year...more 01.07.03.
New 'book town' booms...more 27.06.03.
Computer age no threat to rare books...more 28.06.03.
The world heritage town of Blaenavon will today begin another chapter in its history
when it joins an international community of "booktowns"....more
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