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• Houghton Mifflin Publisher Resigns

  Becky Saletan, publisher of the adult trade division, will leave next week in a sign of further unraveling at the publisher. Posted Dec 02 2008, 06:55 PM by NYT > Business Filed under: Books and Literature, Appointments and Executive Changes, Houghton Mifflin Co, Saletan, Becky

• Books: Magnificent Medical Miracles, and Everyday Ones, Too

  Two new health books go a long way toward explicating medical miracles pursued and those that unfold against all expectations. Posted Nov 25 2008, 09:54 AM by NYT > Health Filed under: Medicine and Health, Books and Literature, Religion and Churches, Roman Catholic Church, Poliomyelitis, 7 Wheelchairs (Book), Medical Miracles (Book)

• Book Prizes Awarded With Nod to History

  Annette Gordon-Reed won the National Book Award for nonfiction for “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family,” while Peter Matthiessen won the fiction award for “Shadow Country.” Posted Nov 19 2008, 09:51 PM by NYT > NYTimes.com Home Filed under: Books and Literature, Awards, Decorations and Honors, National Book Foundation, Gordon-Reed, Annette, Matthiessen, Peter

• Idea Lab: Becoming Screen Literate

  How the moving image is upending the printed word. Posted Nov 19 2008, 03:29 PM by NYT > Technology Filed under: Computers and the Internet, Writing and Writers, Books and Literature, Recordings and Downloads (Video), Motion Pictures, Virtual Reality (Computers), Computer Monitors

• A Digital Library of Europe, Dominated by France

  A new digital library, called Europeana, intends to showcase Europe’s history, literature, arts and science. Posted Nov 19 2008, 12:41 PM by NYT > Technology Filed under: Computers and the Internet, Europe, France, Books and Literature, Libraries and Librarians

• Off the Shelf: Out of Work? You Have Time to Read This

  Author Nicholas Nigro aims to be defiantly uplifting with a combination of psychological and financial self-help advice. Posted Nov 16 2008, 12:25 AM by NYT > Business Filed under: United States Economy, Layoffs and Job Reductions, Books and Literature, Labor

• Booksellers and Publishers Nervous as Holiday Season Approaches

  Like many businesses across the retail sector, the publishing industry has been hit by a raft of doom and gloom in the past few weeks. Posted Nov 10 2008, 09:18 PM by NYT > Business Filed under: Retail Stores and Trade, Books and Literature, Sales, Borders Group Incorporated (MI)|BGP|NYSE, HarperCollins Publishers, Barnes & Noble Incorporated, Random House, News Corporation|NWS.A|NYSE, Doubleday Publishing Group, Grand Central Publishing, Little Brown & Co, Simon & Schuster Inc

• Book Publishers Take Leaps Into Digital

  Book publishers are exploring new ways to sell books in digital form. Posted Nov 10 2008, 08:15 AM by NYT > Business Filed under: Computers and the Internet, Books and Literature, Google Inc|GOOG|NASDAQ, Amazon.com Inc|AMZN|NASDAQ, SONY Corporation|SNE|NYSE, Electronic Books and Readers

• ‘Why Obama Can’t Win’ Author Defends Analysis

  Many an author has come to incorrect conclusions, but only a few have had the courage to make a prediction in a title that could be directly contradicted. Posted Nov 09 2008, 10:45 PM by NYT > Business Filed under: Writing and Writers, Books and Literature, Presidential Election of 2008

• Google Signs a Deal to e-Publish Out-of-Print Books

  Book publishers are exploring new ways to sell books in digital form. Posted Nov 09 2008, 10:37 PM by NYT > Business Filed under: Computers and the Internet, Books and Literature, Google Inc|GOOG|NASDAQ, Amazon.com Inc|AMZN|NASDAQ, SONY Corporation|SNE|NYSE, Electronic Books and Readers

• Turner Taps Former Executive to Put His Life Down on Paper

  Though the brash media mogul first considered a big-time author, Mr. Turner eventually turned to a former subordinate to c0-write his autobiography. Posted Nov 09 2008, 10:35 PM by NYT > Business Filed under: Books and Literature, Executives and Management, Cable News Network, Burke, Bill, Turner, Ted

• Michael Crichton, Author of Thrillers, Dies at 66

  By combining old-fashioned storytelling with gee-whiz science, Mr. Crichton’s books made for a compelling formula that was adapted easily by Hollywood. Posted Nov 06 2008, 01:15 AM by NYT > NYTimes.com Home Filed under: Deaths (Obituaries), Writing and Writers, Books and Literature, Crichton, Michael

• An Appraisal | Michael Crichton: Builder of Realms That Thrillingly Run Amok

  The author, who died on Tuesday, turned out novels that were intricately engineered entertainment systems. Posted Nov 05 2008, 04:44 PM by NYT > NYTimes.com Home Filed under: Writing and Writers, Books and Literature, Crichton, Michael

• Off the Shelf: The Sociology of Success

  In “Outliers: The Story of Success,” Malcolm Gladwell refutes the simplistic old saw of the self-made man — and reminds us that success is social. Posted Nov 01 2008, 11:36 PM by NYT > Business Filed under: Books and Literature, Gladwell, Malcolm, “Outliers: The Story of Success” (Book)

• Studs Terkel, Listener to Americans, Dies at 96

  Mr. Terkel was a Pulitzer prize-winning author whose searching interviews with ordinary Americans helped establish oral history as an important historical genre. Posted Oct 31 2008, 08:13 PM by NYT > NYTimes.com Home Filed under: Deaths (Obituaries), Writing and Writers, Books and Literature, Terkel, Studs