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August 3, 2009

In the News: Awkward Book Deal, Gandalf vs. Dumbledore

The creators of the Web site Awkward Family Photos have landed a book deal.

What might Thomas Pynchon look like now?

A high-school student is suing Amazon after the remote deletion of “1984” lead to the loss of his notes for a summer-reading assignment.

Supermarkets now account for a fifth of books sold in the U.K.

Gandalf versus Dumbledore.

Simon & Schuster will publish a teen version of the international best-seller “The Secret” this fall.

Translation Nation: A State of the Union.”

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will lay off sixty-five employees.

A book addict kills himself (in 1889).

The “flawed faith” of “Twilight.”

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