M2 Best Books articles from October 2008

M2 Best Books archives from October 2008

Penguin to merge two imprints.
October 1, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Publisher Penguin is reportedly planning to combine two of its non-fiction imprints. Gotham Books and Avery Books will now operate under a single management team, with Gotham Books...

Borders issues warrants to Pershing Square Capital Management.
October 2, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Bookseller Borders Group Inc (NYSE: BGP) has announced that, consistent with a previously announced agreement, it has issued warrants to Pershing Square Capital Management L.P. to purchase an...

American Airlines provides passengers in Dallas with copies of Corduroy to aid Jumpstart's 'Read for the Record' campaign.
October 3, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Passengers departing Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) yesterday morning (2 October) with American Airlines were provided with a special edition of the children's story, Corduroy,...

Vodafone brings books to mobile phones.
October 6, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Mobile operator Vodafone has formed a partnership with GoSpoken.com to launch Books on Mobile, a new service that will make books available on mobile phones. Author Andy McNab co-founded...

Dracula to be resurrected in new book.
October 7, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Dacre Stoker, a blood relative of Bram Stoker, the creator of the vampire Dracula, has co-authored a sequel to the original novel with screenwriter Ian Holt. Titled Dracula: The Un-Dead,...

Modern Wind in the Willows story sought.
October 8, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The anniversary of Wind in the Willows first being published is being marked by a competition, organised by the River & Rowing Museum in Henley, Oxfordshire, to write a modern version. ...

Mick Imlah wins Forward prize for Best Collection with The Lost Leader.(Brief article)
October 9, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The Forward prize for Best Collection has been won by Mick Imlah for his second book of poems, titled The Lost Leader. Imlah received the GBP10,000 prize at the Forward awards ceremony...

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio wins 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature.
October 10, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezioi has been selected as this year's winner of the SEK10m Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy has acknowledged Le Clezio's work by...

Simon Pegg signs publishing deal for three books.
October 13, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Simon Pegg, a British film and TV actor, has signed a publishing deal with Hodder & Stoughton to release three non-fiction books. Pegg, who has starred in How to Lose Friends and Alienate...

Publishers among Western media companies opening offices in Abu Dhabi.
October 14, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Several western media companies including book publishers HarperCollins and Random House, the British Broadcasting Corporation, CNN, The Financial Times and the Thomson Reuters Foundation...

Aravind Adiga is awarded Man Booker Prize for debut novel.
October 15, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Indian-born writer Aravind Adiga has been declared the winner of the Man Booker Prize for his first novel, The White Tiger, a work which focuses on modern Indian society. Adiga received...

Bloomsbury establishes new publishing operation in Qatar.
October 16, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Bloomsbury Publishing has announced that it is expanding into the Middle East with a six-year deal worth GBP7.55m in Qatar. The company said that Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing,...

British Library acquires Poet Laureate's collection.(Brief article)
October 17, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The British Library has announced that it has obtained the collective works of the late Poet Laureate Ted Hughes (1930 1998) for the sum of GPB500,000. Support from the Friends of the...

Books-A-Million announces two new store openings.
October 20, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Books-A-Million Inc (Nasdaq:BAMM), a book retailer, announced on Friday (17 October) the opening of two new stores. The company has opened new stores in Houston, Texas, and Statesboro,...

Barnes & Noble announces new store in Wesley Chapel, Florida.
October 20, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc (NYSE: BKS) on Friday (17 October) announced that the company will be opening a new store in Wesley Capel, Florida, USA on 30 October 2008. The new store,...

Heat is on as Christmas cookbooks compete for top position.
October 20, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Jamie Oliver's book Jamie's Ministry of Food is currently in the lead in the race for the best-selling Christmas cookbook in the UK, having already sold 88,500 copies. Other contenders...

JK Rowling to introduce The Tales of Beedle the Bard.
October 21, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD JK Rowling is to read extracts from The Tales of Beedle the Bard, the follow-up book to the Harry Potter series, at a tea party for school children in Edinburgh, Scotland. The event will...

Nominees announced for Australia-Asia Literary Award longlist.
October 22, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The longlist of 12 authors for the AUD110,000 Australia-Asia Literary Award has been declared by John Day, the Australia Government's Culture and Arts Minister. The award is for a book...

'Brothers' shortlisted for Man Asian prize.
October 23, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A Chinese book titled Brothers by Yu Hua has been shortlisted for the Man Asian literary prize, which was initiated in 2006 by the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, in order to...

William Butler Yeats' first edition goes to auction.
October 24, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD One of only three known first editions of the William Butler Yeats poem, Easter 1916, has been sold at auction for almost double its expected price. The poem went under the hammer at...

Alan Bennett donates manuscripts to Oxford's Bodleian library.
October 24, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The playwright Alan Bennett is to give the archive of his literary works to the Bodleian library in Oxford. The donation, which includes original drafts of Bennett's stage and TV plays...

Easypress Technologies launches Atomik Quantum Publisher.
October 27, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Easypress Technologies, a developer of content conversion software, announced on 23 October the release of its latest offering, Atomik QuantumPublisher. The new software is intended for...

HP announces partnership with Timsons.
October 27, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) (NYSE:HPQ), which various products, technologies, software, solutions and services, announced on Monday (27 October) that it has entered into a new relationship...

Hachette Book Group forms new division to combine Orbit and Yen Press imprints.
October 27, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD US-based trade publisher Hachette Book Group, a division of Hachette Livre, is to combine two new imprints to create a new publishing division. Orbit, a science fiction and fantasy...

"My B&N" launched by Barnes & Noble.
October 28, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc (NYSE: BKS) has announced the launch of "My B&N", a fully-integrated web experience on Barnes & Noble.com, http://www.bn.com. "My B&N" allows users to...

Barnes & Noble to open new store in Tennessee.
October 29, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc (NYSE: BKS) has announced that it is to open a new bookstore on 12 November in Hamilton Place Mall at 2100 Hamilton Place Boulevard, Chattanooga, Tennessee. ...

New Pennsylvania store to be opened by Barnes & Noble.
October 30, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc (NYSE: BKS) has announced that it is to open a new bookstore on 12 November at 300 Neshaminy Mall in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. The new store will stock almost...

Shortlist for William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award announced.
October 31, 2008... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The shortlist has been announced for this year's GBP20,000 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. The six books on this year's shortlist include: The Austerity Olympics: When the...