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- Welcome back Mr. Bond: new 007 novel goes on sale
- LONDON AFP — The latest James Bond novel, penned to coincide with what would have been his creator Ian Fleming's 100th birthday, went on sale Wednesday, with fans queuing overnight to secure the first copies. Scores of people waited in line outside Waterstone's bookstore in Piccadilly, central London, where...
- Research articles 2008-05-28
- Big box panic: Americans have been afraid of chain stores for nearly a century, but independent outlets keep thriving
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ON THE CORNER of Newbury Street and Massachusetts Avenue in Boston sits one of the famed architect Frank Gehry's least inspired creations. "360 Newbury" is a big box of a building--appropriate considering that its first three floors have long housed big-box record stores-famous only as Gehry's sole...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Bombed Baghdad book market turns the page
- BAGHDAD AFP — Abdul Rahman still has shrapnel in his body from the bomb that devastated the renowned Mutanabi Street book market, but his concern right now is with reclaiming the area as Baghdad's centre of arts and culture. "I hope they restore Mutanabi Street in keeping with its...
- Research articles 2007-11-26
- Harry Potter's launch in Greek postponed by staff protest
- ATHENS AFP — Staff protests at being asked to work beyond the witching hour have forced Greece's four main bookstores to scrap plans for a late-night launch of the seventh Harry Potter novel in Greek. "The events we had planned for Friday night have been cancelled, they will be...
- Research articles 2007-11-22
- Harry Potter's launch in Greek postponed by staff protest
- ATHENS AFP — Staff protests at being asked to work beyond the witching hour have forced Greece's four main bookstores to scrap plans for a late-night launch of the seventh Harry Potter novel in Greek. "The events we had planned for Friday night have been cancelled, they will be...
- Research articles 2007-11-02
- Wayne State University
- The Wayne State University School of Business Administration has joined an elite list of schools in the book Best 290 Business Schools, published by The Princeton Review. Wayne State will be included in the 2008 edition of the book, available in bookstores Oct. 9.
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- Burns' 'War' finds beachhead in bookstore
- Ken Burns' much-anticipated look at World War II already is a hit -- in bookstores. The War, Burns' seven-part PBS documentary, doesn't begin airing until Sunday. But the companion volume, The War ($50, Knopf), by Burns and Geoffrey C. Ward was released last week and makes...
- Research articles 2007-09-20
- Malaysian bookstores shelve Harry Potter boycott
- KUALA LUMPUR AFP — The final Harry Potter book is back on the shelves of four major Malaysian bookstores after they agreed to end a sales boycott in protest over heavy discounting by two hypermarkets. The four stores had withdrawn "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" from their outlets...
- Research articles 2007-07-24
- Australian fan takes the plunge to secure latest Potter book
- SYDNEY AFP — Thousands of Australian Harry Potter fans braved a winter chill to secure the final instalment of the boy wizard's adventures Saturday, with one avid reader even contracting hypothermia. Emergency services in Canberra said a 21-year-old man lost his pre-purchase receipt for "Harry Potter And The Deathly...
- Research articles 2007-07-21
- Potter fans spellbound by Rowling at book signing
- LONDON AFP — Hundreds of eager fans braved darkness, exhaustion and chilly air to listen to Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling autograph and read passages from her latest book. "Probably slim to none, but hey, one's always got hope, right?" said Jess Ciroi, a 20-year-old, who cites Rowling...
- Research articles 2007-07-21
- Harry Potter mania hits Asia
- HONG KONG AFP — All-night parties and Hogwarts Express-style train trips were among the hundreds of events planned Friday as Harry Potter fans across Asia prepared for the eagerly-awaited release of the seventh and final book in the series. In Muslim Bangladesh, where Friday is a holiday, customs offices...
- Research articles 2007-07-20
- Potter fans await Harry swansong, but leaks mar surprise
- LONDON AFP — Excitement mounted among Harry Potter fans worldwide Friday as the clock ticked down to the release of the last instalment of his adventures, but a growing tide of leaks threatened to mar the event. With only hours to go before the 2301 GMT publication of "Harry...
- Research articles 2007-07-19
- Still wild about Harry
- WHEN THE CLOCK strikes midnight Friday, Heather Knight will be at a Borders bookstore in Santa Cruz, clutching the copy of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" she's had on order for months. Knight was an El Cerrito sixth-grader when she cracked the spine on her first...
- Research articles 2007-07-17
- Potter book launch to help boost search for missing British girl
- LONDON AFP — Bookstores selling the eagerly anticipated seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series will be asked to display posters of a missing British girl, and the books will come with appeals to help search for her. Fans of the bespectacled boy wizard will likely be...
- Research articles 2007-07-16
- Faith-based geology
- From the Chicago Sun-Times: "Grand Canyon National Park employees charged that the Bush Administration has pressured them to keep from stating the canyon's geological age, while a book saying the Grand Canyon was created 4,450 years ago by Noah's flood remains on sale at the park's bookstore."
- Research articles 2007-02-01
- More students are bargain shopping online for textbooks
- College students have long suffered under the burden of oppressive textbook price tags, which have been known to top the $100 mark for a single required book. In a classic academic catch-22, students need a college education to get a job that pays them enough money to afford...
- Research articles 2007-01-08
- Book signing at BYU
- Stephenie Meyer, Brigham Young University graduate and author of "Twilight" and "New Moon," will sign copies of her books at BYU's bookstore today from 2-3:30 p.m. Then she will give a lecture in the Harold B. Lee Library Auditorium at 3:45 p.m. The public is invited.
- Research articles 2006-09-15
- 5 Things Borders Is Finally Learning
- Borders had a tough fourth quarter, announcing a 14.2 percent decline in music sales, flat book sales and the chain's towering $554 million debt looming over all. And now they're "exploring strategic alternatives," never a good sign. You might blame the standard "Americans don't read" whinge, but...
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Catholic bookstore fights 'Da Vinci Code'
- WASHINGTON AFP — Visibly preoccupied and weary, William Stetson still squeezes out a smile when asked yet again about the film version of "The Da Vinci Code," which was panned at Cannes. "Did you see how it was laughed at and whistled at?" the priest says of the audience...
- Research articles 2006-05-18
- A Park Avenue Tutor Pens a Tell-All
- As an undergraduate at Harvard University, budding novelist Eliot Schrefer thought money didn't matter. Then he became an SAT tutor in New York City and got an education in classes of a different kind. Schrefer, 27, spent three years helping some of Manhattan's richest kids ace the college boards. It...
- Research articles 2006-04-10
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