The Book News Archive - links to book related news stories from around the world. 01.11.03 - 30.12.03

30.12.03. Collector buried alive for two days under an avalanche of books & magazines ...more

29.12.03. Michelle Pauli rounds up the top stories of the year...more

28.12.03. Scots National Library’s £33m bid for literary treasure trove ...more

27.12.03. Latest chapter for book store hit by arson ...more

20.12.03. Buyer beware. Bibliophile on some of the creative writing to be found at eBay ...more

19.12.03. Google tests in-book searches ...more

18.12.03. Twice Read Books closes after 75 years ...more

15.12.03. Collectors 'unruly passions' make sense of our world...more

15.12.03. Used books a hardy niche in slow economy...more

15.12.03. When books kill. Movies and video games get blamed for acts of senseless violence all the time. But some famous murderers got their ideas from literature...more

15.12.03. Bhutan tome named world's largest book...more

14.12.03. In Archimedes' Puzzle, a New Eureka Moment...more

14.12.03. Lord of the Rings triumphs in Big Read vote...more

13.12.03. Writer and raconteur John Baxter collects books as a form of self-expression and as a way to savor -- and live -- the good life...more

13.12.03. Lost photograph shows JM Barrie acting pirate's role before Peter Pan was written...more

13.12.03. Nicholas Clee on the latest news from the publishing industry ...more

13.12.03. Readers await final Big Read vote...more

10.12.03. £3m gift that could help save Frankenstein for the nation...more

10.12.03. Christie's auction will sell items from Playboy archives ...more

10.12.03. Shy 'Hero' Coetzee Collects Nobel Literature Prize ...more

10.12.03. Bookseller of Kabul honored again...more

10.12.03.Four First Edition 'Harry Potter' Books Inscribed by J.K. Rowling Sell at Auction for $90,000...more

10.12.03.Police move to solve decades-old theft of rare documents from Denmark's Royal Library...more

08.12.03. Not quite tamed, "Wild Things" author Maurice Sendak illustrates new folk tale...more

06.12.03. South Korea intends to renegotiate an agreement with France to bring home a set of centuries-old Korean history books after they were looted by French troops in the 19th century...more

06.12.03. Nicholas Clee on the latest news from the publishing industry ...more

04.12.03. World of books By A N Wilson...more

04.12.03. Street Trader Made Fortune from Stolen Books, Court Told...more

04.12.03. Founders of project for young people's literature announce £6m fund to build inspirational centre...more

04.12.03. Public Libraries Use Internet to Sell Old Books...more

01.12.03. JK Rowling to launch next year's World Book Day online festival...more

01.12.03. Publisher distributes free books on trains...more

01.12.03. Umberto Eco on the future of the book...more

30.11.03. Book on punctuation, is this year's Christmas publishing sensation....more

28.11.03. £1m prayer book found at school ...more

28.11.03. There are fears a collection of 1,000 books that belonged to novelist Dame Iris Murdoch may leave the country...more

27.11.03. Rasta poet publicly rejects his OBE...more

25.11.03. British Library opens a new chapter in its history: helping Amazon storm the antiquarian book market...more

25.11.03. Ezra Pound was more guilty than Haw-Haw...more

23.11.03. Treasures from Dante to Brando tucked away in Texas museum...more

22.11.03. Love of books speaks volumes...more

22.11.03. A Graphic Literature Library. 25 books from 25 years for smart, sophisticated readers...more

22.11.03. Nicholas Clee on the latest news from the publishing industry...more

22.11.03. Christmas books: literary lives. Tom Payne finds authors eager to supply detail about their creative lives...more

21.11.03. The Harry Potter books have created a new phenomenon, as more adults pick up books aimed at young readers ...more

21.11.03. New museum of world literature rarities opens...more

20.11.03. Oxford has been hit by the phenomenon of 'BookCrossing', which aims to "make the whole world a library" by releasing books into the streets ...more

20.11.03. Top out-of-print books listed ...more

19.11.03. Museum aims to draw crowds with cartoon boy wonder aged 75...more

18.11.03. 250 million Harry Potter books sold...more

17.11.03. TV will never dumb down great literature...more

17.11.03.The hypocrite of Kabul...more

17.11.03. Afghan family's story trampled by mean-spirited journalism...more

15.11.03. You shouldn't judge people by the covers of the books they read...more

15.11.03. Edinburgh on track to be first City of Literature ...more

15.11.03. Nicholas Clee on the latest news from the publishing industry ...more

14.11.03. Amazon’s ‘Search Inside the Book’ Feature: Sales Tool or Piracy?...more

14.11.03. Priest's Kennedy diary to be book...more

14.11.03. "Book collecting is as wide as your imagination," ...more

11.11.03. Will Salinger sue?...more

11.11.03. Living with books usually means loving books. As any self- respecting bibliophile knows, that means finding ways of arranging and displaying books so they don't take over the house...more

06.11.03. The Catcher is caught: BBC's Big Read dramatises Salinger novel without permission ...more

04.11.03. Doing it by the book. Bernice Davison reveals her holiday passion - rummaging for secondhand titles ...more

04.11.03. Valuable comic book collection found in old margarine crate ...more

03.11.03. BBC News Online looks at book collecting in the latest in its series on fun investments ...more

03.11.03. Nightmare sequel to bestseller on Kabul family life...more

01.11.03. Joel Rickett on the latest news from the world of publishing...more