M2 Best Books articles from October 2006

M2 Best Books archives from October 2006

Winner of Lettre Ulysses prize announced.(Linda Grant's The People on the Street: A Writer's View of Israel)(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The winner of the Lettre Ulysses Award for the art of reportage has been announced as Linda Grant. Grant, who is a British author and also a contributor to The Guardian newspaper, was...

Opera book to be written by Placido Domingo.(The Joy of Opera)(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Placido Domingo, a Spanish opera singer, is to release a book entitled The Joy of Opera. Worldwide rights to the book, which will offer a guide to opera music, have been acquired by WW...

New stores to be opened in Pennsylvania by Borders.( Borders Group Inc.)(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Bookseller Borders Group Inc (NYSE: BGP) has announced that it is to open a new 22,000-square-foot store in the Lycoming Mall located in Muncy Township, Pa., at the start of November. A...

Author auctions chance to feature in next novel.(Jason Johnson )(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The chance to feature as a literary character in the third book from Northern Irish writer Jason Johnson is to be sold in an online auction. According to United Press International,...

'Search Inside!' programme from Amazon to feature Penguin UK.(Brief article)
October 3, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Amazon.co.uk has announced that publishing house Penguin UK has joined its 'Search Inside!' programme, enabling customers of Amazon.co.uk to search hundreds of thousands of books. ...

Coliseum Books expected to close down.
October 3, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection has been made by New York City-based bookseller Coliseum Books. In addition the company has reportedly made plans for the closure of its...

Winner of German Book Prize announced.(Brief article)
October 3, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The EUR25,000 German Book Prize has been awarded to Katharina Hacker for her novel entitled Die Habenichtse (The Have-Nothings). Hacker fended off competition from five other shortlisted...

AuthorHouse announces release of Type 2 Diabetes: The Adrenal Gland Disease.(Brief article)
October 3, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD AuthorHouse, a publishing house for emerging authors, has announced the launch of a new book by Marcia Ruth Roper, RD, CDE, entitled Type 2 Diabetes: The Adrenal Gland Disease. In her...

Google launches online Literacy Project.(Brief article)
October 4, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD An online Literacy Project portal has been launched by Internet search engine company Google to connect literacy organisations. Google said the portal allows organisations, teachers and...

Harlequin to cut jobs.
October 4, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Torstar Corp's romance novel subsidiary, Harlequin Enterprises, has announced that it is to reduce its global workforce by 4%. Harlequin publishes more than 100 romance novels a month...

Shortlist announced for 2006 Nestle Children's Book Prize.(Brief article)
October 4, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The shortlist for the 2006 Nestle Children's Book Prize has been announced. According to Booktrade.info, the shortlist includes Julia Golding, who has been nominated for her debut book...

Co-publishing agreement announced by HarperCollins and Grupo Planeta.(Brief article)
October 4, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD HarperCollins Publishers and Grupo Planeta, a Spanish-language publisher, have announced that they have entered into a co-publishing agreement to develop a line of Spanish-language titles....

2006 Frankfurt Book Fair to feature more area than last year.(Brief article)
October 4, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD This year's Frankfurt Book Fair is to feature a total of 7,272 exhibitors from 113 countries and a total of 382,000 titles, including 112,000 new publications. According to the...

Caraustar Industries Inc launches speciality recycled paperboard grade for book manufacturing.(Binder Tex 45)(Brief article)
October 4, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Caraustar Industries Inc (Nasdaq: CSAR), a provider of speciality paperboard products, announced on 3 October that it has developed Binder Tex 45, a recycled paperboard grade used in the...

Trevor Dolby to leave HarperCollins.(Brief article)
October 5, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Publisher HarperCollins has revealed that Trevor Dolby is to leave the company this week. Dolby joined the company from Orion in 2003, originally as managing director of Harper...

New Texas store to be opened by Barnes & Noble.(Brief article)
October 5, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc (NYSE: BKS) is to open a new bookstore on 18 October in First Colony Mall at 16535 Southwest Freeway, Sugar Land, Texas, US. As a result the company's store...

Trafalgar Square Publishing to be acquired by Chicago Review Press.
October 5, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Trafalgar Square Publishing is to be acquired by Chicago Review Press, owner of US-based distributor Independent Publishers Group (IPG). The IPG and Trafalgar lists will reportedly be...

Peter Pan in Scarlet released.(Brief article)
October 5, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Geraldine McCaughrean's follow-up to Peter Pan, entitled Peter Pan in Scarlet, has been released. The book, which is to be published in 30 countries and in 34 languages, is an authorised...

Borders opens its first store in LaGuardia Airport, New York.(Brief article)
October 5, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Bookseller Borders Group Inc (NYSE: BGP) has announced that it is to open a new 2,850-square-foot store in New York LaGuardia Airport's Central Terminal Marketplace in early November. ...

New store in Roseville, Minn. to be opened by Borders.(Brief article)
October 6, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Bookseller Borders Group Inc (NYSE: BGP) has announced that it is to open a two-level, 30,969-square-foot store in Roseville, Minn., US later this month at the Plaza at Rosedale Center,...

McGraw-Hill Higher Education and FLTRP to offer Chinese-language education materials in North America.(McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. McGraw-Hill Education)(Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press)(Brief article)
October 6, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD McGraw-Hill Higher Education, a provider of teaching and learning solutions for the post-secondary and higher education markets, is to offer Chinese-language educational materials in North...

Google releases list of most popular books from book search tool.(Brief article)
October 6, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The most popular English-language titles that are being found by readers through the use of the book search tool from Internet search engine Google Inc (Nasdaq:GOOG) include the Koran. ...

Harlequin Ginger Blossom now available in Sony Reader bookstore.(Harlequin Enterprises Limited)(Brief article)
October 6, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Harlequin Enterprises Limited, a publisher of women's fiction, has announced that the company's manga-format imprint, Harlequin Ginger Blossom, is part of the recent launch of the Sony...

New store in Dallas, Texas to be opened by Barnes & Noble.(Brief article)
October 9, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc (NYSE: BKS) has announced that it is to open a new bookstore on 20 October in the Prestonwood Town Center at 5301 Beltline Road, Dallas, Texas, US. As a...

Winner of Frankfurt Booksellers Peace Prize announced.(won by Wolf Lepenies)(Brief article)
October 9, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The annual EUR25,000 Frankfurt Booksellers Peace Prize has been awarded to German sociologist and writer Wolf Lepenies. The award was given on Sunday (8 October), the final day of this...

Subpoenas issued by Google.(to the Association of American Publishers and the Authors Guild)(Brief article)
October 9, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Internet search engine Google Inc (Nasdaq:GOOG) has revealed that it has issued subpoenas to gain information regarding the book scanning projects of its competitors. The subpoenas have...

Barnes & Noble to open new stores in the US.(Brief article)
October 10, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc (NYSE: BKS) has announced that it has signed a lease agreement to open a new bookstore in Glendora, California. According to the company the store is...

The Little Book of Value Investing released by Wiley.(John Wiley & Sons)(Christopher H. Browne)(Brief article)
October 10, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A new book by the managing director of investment firm Tweedy, Browne Company LLC, Christopher H. Browne, entitled The Little Book of Value Investing, has been published by John Wiley & Sons....

Dubai store to be opened by Borders.
October 10, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD US-based bookseller Borders Group Inc (NYSE: BGP) is to open a new store at the end of October located in a 16,000 square foot space in the Mall of Emirates, Dubai. According to Gulf...

Quadrille to enter the US market.(Quadrille Publishing )(Brief article)
October 10, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD UK-based publisher Quadrille Publishing is to enter the US market in 2007. According to Publishers Weekly, the company is using Philadelphia-based consultant Keith Ashland to oversee its...

Winners of the Quill Books Awards announced.(Brief article)
October 11, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Tyler Perry has been named as the winner of Book of the Year in the second Quill Book Awards for his book Don't Make A Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings. In addition Al Gore won the...

Kiran Desai wins this year's Man Booker Prize.
October 11, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Kiran Desai has been named as the winner of this year's GBP50,000 Man Booker Prize for her second novel entitled The Inheritance of Loss. Other writers to make the shortlist of six...

Indian expansion announced by HarperCollins.(The India Today Group)(Brief article)
October 11, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Indian-based publishing initiatives are to be expanded by HarperCollins. The publisher will reportedly be expanding its licensing, publishing, retail and distribution activities in the...

Winner of 2005 First Novel Award announced by Amazon.ca and Books in Canada.(Joseph Boyden's Three Day Road)(Brief article)
October 12, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The 2005 First Novel Award has been presented to Joseph Boyden by Amazon.ca and Books in Canada for his book entitled Three Day Road. The First Novel Award, which offers a prize of...

Liverpool City Council launches new children's fitness guidebook.(The Liverpool Healthy Schools Guide)(Brief article)
October 12, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Liverpool City Council in the UK has announced the launch of a new guidebook, entitled The Liverpool Healthy Schools Guide, to assist children in improving their health and fitness. The...

Nominees for National Book Award announced.(Brief article)
October 12, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The National Book Foundation in the US has announced the finalists for the 2006 National Book Awards. The award applies to books that were published in the United States between 1...

Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature announced.(Orhan Pamuk)(Brief article)
October 12, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The SEK10m 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Turkish author Orhan Pamuk by the Swedish Academy. According to The Associated Press, Pamuk was awarded the prize for his...

HarperCollins could be new distributor for Disney - claim.(Hyperion Books and the Disney Book Group)(Brief article)
October 13, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The distribution of Disney publishing units Hyperion Books and the Disney Book Group is expected to be moved from Hachette Book Group to HarperCollins. According to Publishers Weekly, if...

Winner of 2006 Mutations & Travail award announced.(Olivier Vassal's Crise du sens: Defis du Management)(Brief article)
October 13, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The 2006 Mutations & Travail award has been presented to Olivier Vassal for his book entitled Crise du sens, Defis du Management, published by Village Mondial. The award was reportedly...

Online classified ads launched on LonelyPlanet.com.
October 13, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Travel publisher Lonely Planet has announced the launch of classified advertisements on its website, at http://www.lonelyplanet.com/classifieds. According to the company the new...

Fidel Castro's memoirs to be published in the UK by Penguin.(Brief article)
October 16, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Publishing house Penguin has revealed that it is to publish the memoirs of Fidel Castro, the Cuban leader, on 29 March 2007. The book, entitled My Life, was reportedly compiled as a...

Children's book authored by son of Frank Zappa.(Ahmet Zappa to write The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless)(Brief article)
October 16, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The son of rock star Frank Zappa, Ahmet Zappa, is to publish a book for children entitled The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless. According to the New York Daily News, Zappa's book...

Google partners with University of Wisconsin.(Brief article)
October 16, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Internet search engine Google Inc (Nasdaq:GOOG) has announced that it has entered into an agreement with the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the digitalisation of the collections held by...

Fonix Speech in license to provide electronic dictionaries for AOnePro.(Brief article)
October 17, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Fonix Speech Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fonix Corporation (OTCBB:FNIX), a provider of embedded speech interfaces for mobile devices, handheld electronic products, and systems and...

Sisters in Crime reports results of new survey.(Brief article)
October 17, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A survey carried out for Sisters in Crime (SinC), a not-for-profit organisation providing networking, advice and support to female mystery writers and their fans, has revealed that neither...

Barnes & Noble announces new store openings.(Brief article)
October 17, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc (NYSE: BKS) has announced plans to open a number of new stores located throughout the US. On 25 October the company will open new stores in Green Oak Village...

Winner of Spain's Premio Planeta award announced.(Alvaro Pombo's La Fortuna de Matilda Turpin)(Brief article)
October 17, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Spanish author Alvaro Pombo has been named as the winner of Spain's USD755,000 Premio Planeta award for his novel entitled La Fortuna de Matilda Turpin. According to The Associated...

Blackwell Book Services announces partnership with ebrary.(Brief article)
October 17, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Blackwell Book Services has announced that it has entered into a partnership with ebrary for the launch of ECHO, a new e-content hosting platform for libraries. According to the...

Oce VarioStream 9210 systems ordered by Lightning Source for digital book manufacturing.(Brief article)
October 18, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Oce (Nasdaq: OCENY), a provider of digital document management and delivery solutions, has revealed that it has received an order from Lightning Source Inc, a subsidiary of Ingram Industries...

Rights to Philip Pullman film tie-in books acquired by Scholastic.(His Dark Materials )(Brief article)
October 18, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The acquisition of the worldwide rights for the publication of movie tie-in books based on the film version of Philip Pullman's first novel in the trilogy His Dark Materials has been...

Microsoft forms agreement with Kirtas Technologies as part of its Live Book Search portal initiative.(Brief article)
October 18, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Software company Microsoft Corp (Nasdaq:MSFT) has announced that it has entered into a digitisation agreement with Kirtas Technologies, a provider of digital scanning. The deal...

HarperCollins and FanLib announce launch of online teen writing event.(Brief article)
October 19, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Publisher HarperCollins and FanLib, a social media company, are to work together as part of an online writing event, HarperTeen FanLit: "Your Words. Everybody's Story". Meg Cabot, author...

Andrew O'Hagan short story to be distributed by Unicef.(Brief article)
October 19, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Unicef UK, part of the United Nations Children's Fund, has revealed that it is to distribute free copies of a short story authored by Andrew O'Hagan, the charity's UK ambassador for...

First Republic of Ireland store to be opened by Borders.(Bookstores)(Brief article)
October 19, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Bookseller Borders Group Inc (NYSE: BGP) has announced that it is to open its first superstore in the Republic of Ireland, in the West Dublin suburb of Blanchardstown, on 27 October. ...

Darwin's complete works made available online.(Brief article)
October 19, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The University of Cambridge in the UK has made the complete evolutionary works of British scientist Charles Darwin available online, including previous unpublished manuscripts and diaries....

Random House of Canada forms website partnership with Delvinia Interactive.(Brief article)
October 20, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Five new websites have been launched by publisher Random House of Canada. The customer-centric sites reportedly provide exclusive access to enhanced content about the company's books and...

2007 Willesden Herald competition to be judged by Zadie Smith.(Brief article)
October 20, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The 2006 winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, Zadie Smith, is to judge the 2007 Willesden Herald short story competition. According to The Guardian, the competition is organised by a...

Backlist copies of Orhan Pamuk books to be reprinted by Faber.(Faber and Faber Inc)(Brief article)
October 20, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Publishing house Faber is to reprint 110,000 backlist copies of books written by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Turkish author Orhan Pamuk. Pamuk is best known in the UK...

Best science book ever written named.(Primo Levi's The Periodic Table )(Brief article)
October 23, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD An event organised by the Royal Institution in London has named Primo Levi's 1975 memoir entitled The Periodic Table as the best science book ever written. In the book Levi, who was a...

Riverdeep plans to acquire Houghton Mifflin.
October 23, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Educational publisher Riverdeep has revealed that it is preparing to close an agreement to acquire US publisher Houghton Mifflin. According to The Sunday Business Post, the reverse...

Book trolleys in Sheffield hospitals withdrawn.(Brief article)
October 23, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Adult hospitals in Sheffield, England are to abandon the use of a library trolley service in an attempt to save money. Currently patients at the Northern General and Royal Hallamshire...

Barnes & Noble Online to offer WizCom's products.(WizCom Technologies Ltd and barnesandnoble.com Inc. sign deal)(Brief article)
October 23, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD WizCom Technologies Ltd, a provider of portable, handheld scanning and translating pens, has announced that Barnes & Noble Online, the online division of bookseller Barnes & Noble, is now...

Writer and travel editor Eric Newby dies, aged 86.(Obituary)(Brief article)
October 24, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Writer Eric Newby, author of A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, died on 20 October, aged 86. Newby's account of a journey through north-east Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountain range was...

Arctic Monkeys to release official biography.(Brief article)
October 24, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Plans to release an official biography before Christmas have been unveiled by Arctic Monkeys, a rock band from Sheffield in the UK. The new book is expected to help explain why the band's...

Aspermont plans to increase Mining Communications stake.
October 24, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Aspermont Ltd, a publisher based in Perth, Australia, has unveiled plans to increase its holding in Mining Communications Ltd, a UK publisher. Aspermont intends to increase its take from...

Borders to open two stores in Detroit airport.(Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport)(Brief article)
October 24, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Borders Inc, a subsidiary of book retailer Borders Group Inc (NYSE: BGP), is to open two stores in the Edward H. McNamara Terminal of the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. The...

Barnes & Noble reduces hardcover best-sellers for MEMBERS.(Brief article)
October 25, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc (NYSE:BKS) has revealed it is reducing book prices for customers of its MEMBER programme, ahead of the holiday shopping season. According to Barnes & Noble,...

Borders to open new Parkersburg store.(Borders Group Inc.)(Brief article)
October 25, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A new Borders store is to be opened in Parkersburg, W.Va., at the end of November by Borders Group Inc (NYSE:BGP), a retailer of books, music and movies headquartered in Ann Arbor, Mich., in...

Public to vote for favourite Carnegie winner.(Brief article)
October 25, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The British public will be invited to vote for their favourite winner of the children's Carnegie book award from the past 70 years as part of the anniversary celebrations for the prize. ...

Pan MacMillan withdraws 'Australian Jihad' due to prejudicial concerns.(Brief article)
October 25, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Publisher Pan MacMillan has withdrawn the 'Australian Jihad' book by The Australian newspaper's Middle East correspondent Martin Chulov, due to fears that it may prejudice terrorism trials....

Financial Media Group signs agreement with Baker & Taylor.(Brief article)
October 26, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Financial Media Group Inc (OTC Bulletin Board:FNGP), a financial media and advertising company, has announced that it has signed a logistics and product support agreement with Baker & Taylor...

CheapBooks.com retains representation of Dickinson Wright.(Brief article)
October 26, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD CheapBooks.com, a website that provides consumers with access to low-cost books, has revealed it has retained law firm Dickinson Wright PLLC to represent the company in areas of domain name...

The Thomson Corporation to sell Learning businesses.(Brief article)
October 26, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The Thomson Corporation (NYSE:TOC; TSX:TOC), a company providing electronic workflow solutions, has announced that it is to sell its Thomson Learning businesses as part of a realignment of...

Israeli writer Robert Rosenberg dies, aged 54.(Obituary)(Brief article)
October 26, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Robert Rosenberg, an Israeli writer and senior staff editor of the Israeli daily Haaretz, died of cancer on 25 October 2006 in Tel Aviv, Israel, aged 54. Rosenberg, who was born in...

Follett awards local services contract to AT&T.
October 27, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A local services contract has been awarded to US telecomms holding company AT&T Inc (NYSE:T) by Follett Corporation, an operator of college bookstores in the US. AT&T will provide local...

Lemony Snicket to give book signing and performance at Ann Arbor.(Brief article)
October 27, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Lemony Snicket, author of the 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' books, is to visit Ann Arbor, Mich., in the US on 31 October to sign copies of 'A Series of Unfortunate Events: The End' and...

Chatto & Windus to publish Les Bienveillantes.(Brief article)
October 27, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The debut novel by Jonathan Littell, Les Bienveillantes, has been acquired by Chatto & Windus, an imprint of The Random House Group. Les Bienveillantes, which is written in French, is...

French academy awards literary prize to Les Bienveillantes.(Brief article)
October 27, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Les Bienveillantes, the debut novel from author Jonathan Littel, has been awarded the top literary prize of the Academie Francaise. The novel, which means 'The Benevolent', was written in...

Shortlist announced for William Hill Sports Book of the Year.(Brief article)
October 30, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The shortlisted for this year's GBP20,000 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award has been announced. The six-book shortlist includes Paul Rambali's Barefoot Runner: The Life of...

Winner of Dylan Thomas award announced.(Rachel Trezise)(Brief article)
October 30, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The first winner of the GBP60,000 Dylan Thomas literary award was announced on Friday (27 October). Rachel Trezise from the Rhondda valley in south Wales was named as the winner of the...

New UK laws could prevent criminals profiting from memoirs.(Brief article)
October 30, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD New laws are reportedly to be fast-tracked by the UK's Home Secretary John Reid in an effort to stop criminals from making profits on their memoirs. According to The Times, the Home...

Winner of Kafka award announced.(Franz Kafka Prize)(Brief article)
October 31, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The Franz Kafka Prize, a literary award in the Czech Republic, has been presented to Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. The presentation was made to Murakami at a ceremony held in Prague...

PubEasy offered by Simon & Schuster Canada.(Brief article)
October 31, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD PubEasy, an inquiry and ordering service for the book industry and a division of Bowker, has announced that PubEasy has been made available to customers of Simon & Schuster Canada with...

L.M. Montgomery 100th anniversary editions announced by Penguin Group (Canada).(Imagining Anne: The Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery and Before Green Gables)(Brief article)
October 31, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Penguin Group (Canada) has revealed that it is to publish an official prequel to Anne of Green Gables to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the novel's original publication in 1908. ...