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Writers Write Book industry laments the End of The Oprah Winfrey Show
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The book publishing industry is pretty unhappy about Oprah's announcement that she is ending The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2011. Her impact on the book work has been immense.
Writers Write Judge preliminarily approves revised Google Book Settlement
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A federal judge today preliminarily approved a revised Google Book Settlement which removes most European authors from the deal. But the the Open Book Alliance still objects to the proposed settlement saying it gives Google a virtual monopoly on digital books.
Writers Write Biopic shows Enid Blyton as cruel, vindictive and a terrible mother
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A new British television biopic of Enid Blyton stars Helena Bonham Carter. Helena studied the life of the famous author, whose children's books have sold 600 million copies around the world. She discovered that everyone agreed that Enid was not a very nice person, to say the least. ...
Writers Write Daniel Handler, who writes the bestselling Lemony Snicket books, has moved from HarperCollins to Little, Brown.
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Daniel Handler, who writes the bestselling Lemony Snicket books, has moved from HarperCollins to Little, Brown. He signed a deal to write four new Lemony Snicket books and one stand alone young adult title.
Writers Write Study finds texting lingo doesn't turn students into poor spellers.
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The Washington Post reports that a University of Alberta study found that texting probably does not mean students will become bad spellers. They also found that text lingo or "chatspeak" has its own set ...
Writers Write Stephen King has written a new poem for Playboy magazine called "The Bone Church." http://bit.ly/1GLuEY
Writers Write Authors Neil Gaiman (#50), JK Rowling (#114) on list of the 200 most listed twitter users. http://bit.ly/41tbA (via @books)
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BloggersBlog.com: Blog Award Links -- a collection of links to Twitter apps, mashups and tools.
Writers Write The Kennedy Library in Boston will be getting copies of some of Ernest Hemingway's papers from the government of Cuba.
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The Kennedy Library in Boston will be getting copies of a number of Ernest Hemingway's papers from the government of Cuba.
Writers Write Mexico's Secret Service: Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a Cuban spy http://bit.ly/2CC4UD
Writers Write Author Patricia Cornwell is suing her financial advisors and accountants for negligence - they lost her $40 million http://bit.ly/ZDyRf
Writers Write Furious row at Frankfort Book Fair may lead to EU being dropped from Google Book Settlement. http://bit.ly/4DIvuf
Writers Write RT @internet Twitter Lists make Twitter more useful http://bit.ly/3UK9TK
Writers Write A software program which is used to detect plagiarism has uncovered a play likely co-authored by William Shakespeare http://bit.ly/1kvM2p
Writers Write Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl books, has taken on the task of continuing Douglas Adams' Hitchiker's series http://bit.ly/15ol9i
