| Green signal for Kolkata book fair at Maidan | | Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 2:47:44 PM by Blog57 Team | | Kolkata, Jan 16 (IANS) Kolkata Book Fair organisers Tuesday heaved a sigh of relief after months of uncertainty as the defence ministry said the event could be held at Maidan, the green area in the heart of the city. The Maidan is under the Indian Army's jurisdiction and greens have opposed any commercial activity there. Book Sellers and Publishers Guild general secretary Tridip Kumar Chatterjee said the fair would be held at Maidan. The West Bengal government made major efforts to ensure that the army allowed the Book Fair 2007 at the Maidan after the Calcutta High Court dismissed a public interest litigation by the guild seeking permission to hold the event on the ground. The court ruling said the organisers had nothing to do with 'public interest' and that it did not want to interfere in a dispute between the army and a private body, sending the ball back to the army's court.... | |
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| | | Oprah Credited with Book Sales | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 2:48:46 PM by Blog57 Team | | It has been months since the Oprah book club made an official selection but getting a mention on her show still generates strong sales and an increased print run. Just ask the publishers of diet doctors Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz. The pair appeared on Oprah's show Nov. 2 and since then, their books have occupied the top three spots on the best seller list of Amazon.com. The books are entitled "YOU: On a Diet" and "YOU: The Owner's Manual." The publisher of the Free Press, Martha Levin, says the company has increased the print run of "YOU: On a Diet," from 650,000 to 950,000. That's because customers are buying both the book alone and the book and DVD, thanks in part to Winfrey. Levin says Oprah obviously has a passion for the authors' work.... | |
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| | | Chopra affirms afterlife in new book | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 10:48:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | Less than 10 days after hitting bookstores, Deepak Chopra's latest book, Life after Death: The Burden of Proof (Harmony Books, $24), is ready to hit the Publishers Weekly bestseller list next week. In it, Chopra, 60, tells readers there is evidence that the afterlife is not separated from this world. In fact, at the end of our lives, we go into a new phase of the same soul journey we are on right now. The leader in mind-body medicine admits that the book is not an easy read. Its premise comes from the wisdom of the Vedantha, which forms the philosophical foundation of Hinduism and which he studied for more than 20 years. He said he married that wisdom with cutting-edge physics and used his own and his patients' experiences. .... | |
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| | | ABC News' George Stephanopoulos Helps Launch National Book Donation Program; Every D.C. Public School to Receive Lemony | | Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 2:47:26 PM by Blog57 Team | | On October 20, 30 sixth graders at Turner Elementary School in Southeast Washington, D.C., will be the first students to take part in a multi-city book donation, thanks to HarperCollins Children's Books, Communities In Schools, First Book, and the Creative Artists Agency. Twenty-five thousand copies of "A Series of Unfortunate Events" will be sent to students in Washington. D.C., New Orleans, New York and Los Angeles. To celebrate the donation, George Stephanopoulos, host of ABC News' "This Week" will visit with Turner Elementary students. The event will take place from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. at the school. Communities In Schools, Inc., the nation's largest dropout prevention organization, is pleased to join its partner, First Book, in this important initiative that will bring a beloved children's book to thousands of eager students.... | |
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| | | Brighton busker who led publishers on a merry dance | | Posted Saturday, October 14, 2006 12:46:56 PM by Blog57 Team | | A LONG-forgotten music and the mysterious guild that guards its secrets seemed an ideal subject to add to Duckworth?s list of esoteric histories. The venerable London publisher hoped the account of how the funerary violin was almost wiped out by Vatican-organised purges might sell a few hundred copies to specialist readers. But this weekend the company was left to reflect on the most embarrassing episode in its 108-year history after the book was confirmed as a hoax. .... | |
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| | | There was an interesting note in Publishers Weekly the other day that... | | Posted Tuesday, October 10, 2006 10:47:09 AM by Blog57 Team | | There was an interesting note in Publishers Weekly the other day that a Dallas company is planning to release the first in a series of five children's books with Terrell Owens as the leading character. Title of Book No. 1 (and we're not making this up): Little T. Learns to Share. The book, being rushed to stores by Nov. 15 in time for the Christmas season, reportedly details Owens' travails as a little boy learning to share a new football with friends. It will be published by BenBella Books, an independent Dallas-based company, and is coauthored with freelance writer Courtney Parker. Before anyone starts laughing out loud, or even contemplates sharing the book with a 4-year-old, it should be remembered that Owens' dreadful memoir, T.O., actually hit The New York Times bestseller list this past summer, and his Cowboys jersey is the top-selling shirt of any player in the league.... | |
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| | | This week we want to know all about... Bring a Book to Work Week | | Posted Sunday, October 01, 2006 6:47:53 AM by Blog57 Team | | Thousands of people will take their favourite book to work next week as part of a global initiative by Book Aid International to benefit the world's poorest readers. The idea of Bring a Book to Work Week is that for every book taken in, companies signed up to the scheme will donate £2 to help the charity provide people in some of the world's poorest countries with one of their own. Donated favourites in the past have included the Mr Men books for children, romps by Jilly Cooper and copies of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Each year the charity provides half a million books to libraries, schools, hospitals and refugee camps in 17 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Palestine. About 70 per cent of them are given by UK publishers and booksellers. The remainder come from schools and individual donors.... | |
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| | | Thomas Nelson buying Integrity Publishers | | Posted Thursday, September 21, 2006 6:46:45 PM by Blog57 Team | | Publisher Thomas Nelson Inc. has signed a deal to buy Integrity Publishers, the book publishing subsidiary of Integrity Media. The deal for undisclosed terms is expected to close Sept. 28. Nashville-based Integrity publishes best-selling authors Max Lucado, Beth Moore, Zig Ziglar, and Gary Smalley, among others. The company is a subsidiary of Mobile, Ala.-based Integrity Media, which publishes and distributes Christian music, video, books and related products. Integrity Media will continue to own and operate its other divisions, including Integrity Music and INO Records. Nashville-based Thomas Nelson publishes and distributes products that emphasize Christian, inspirational and family value themes. This summer, the company was acquired by InterMedia Partners LP through a deal valued at about $473 million that took the company private.... | |
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| | | Indian book publishers make initial dent in China market | | Posted Friday, September 08, 2006 12:48:03 PM by Blog57 Team | | Beijing, Sept 4. (PTI): Cashing-in on Chinese people's yearning for Information Technology, medicine, yoga and also Bollywood, leading Indian book publishers have made the initial breakthrough in the Chinese book market, long dominated by the West. "Major Indian book publishing companies have succeeded in gaining a foothold in the huge Chinese market," Director of the National Book Trust (NBT) Nuzhat Hassan said. Hassan, who led a delegation of Indian book publishers to the just-concluded Beijing International Book Fair for the second time in two years, said they received good response from Chinese book publishers as well as the public. She said the Chinese publishers showed keen interest in books on Information Technology (IT), science and technology, management, medicine, yoga, jewellery as well as Bollywood.... | |
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| | | Moyes could sue Rooney over book | | Posted Sunday, September 03, 2006 10:47:47 AM by Blog57 Team | | Everton boss David Moyes is likely to sue Wayne Rooney over claims he made in his recent book, although proceedings have not yet been issued.Moyes' solicitors have already started proceedings against the Daily Mail, which published extracts of "Wayne Rooney: My Story So Far'. And while no action has been taken against Rooney or publishers HarperSport yet, it could be imminent. Moyes' lawyer Mel Goldberg said: "Proceedings have been issued against the Daily Mail. Separate action will be taken against the publishers and presumably Wayne Rooney as well because he is the cause of the publication. "But at this minute legal proceedings against Wayne Rooney have not been issued." Moyes is particularly upset by Rooney's claims that the Scot broke his confidence by leaking details of a personal nature.... | |
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