Friday News Roundup, January 8, 2009
To Catch a Literary Thief: NPR has a story on a rare book thief and the detective who caught him. (NPR)
Top of the Heap: The best selling book of 2009 was Dan Brown’s Lost Symbol. (Crains)
Everything Old is New Again: Scholastic is bringing back The Baby Sitters Club and is also publishing a prequel. (NYT)
Coming Soon: BusinessWeek lists the most anticipated books from 2010. (Business Week)
Never Too Late: Marylander returns book to library, 73 years late. (Baltimore Sun)
Look Back at the Naughts: The Guardian Newspaper in the United Kingdom provides a review of the literary stories of the decade. (Guardian)
Congratulations: Author of Bridge to Terabithia is new National Ambassador to Young People’s Literature. (Publisher’s Weekly)
The Future is Now: Samsung announces its new e-book reader at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. (Business Week)
NY Times Hardcover Fiction Top 5 at a Glance
THE LOST SYMBOL
I, ALEX CROSS
UNDER THE DOME
THE HELP
PIRATE LATITUDES
