The 2008 London Book Festival selected the winners for its annual program celebrating books that deserve greater recognition from the international publishing community.  A panel of book industry experts judged published, self-published and independent publisher non-fiction, fiction, children’s books, poetry, art/photography, teenage, how-to, audio/spoken word, comics/graphic novels, e-books, genre-based, scien

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Xlibris, the leading book publisher in the industry, recently launched a publishing package tailor-made for science fiction writers. The Science Fiction Trilogy Publishing package is available to writers in the genre who have completed their imaginative tales, giving writers the means to put their work in print and reach their specific audience. With three options [...]

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The United States House of Representatives has recently approved the $819 billion economic stimulus package. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, according to Democrats, is the immediate attention needed by the rapidly failing US economy. The bill includes $544 billion in spending and $275 billion in tax relief, and is intended to reinvigorate the American [...]

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China has become the world’s third largest economy, and in the midst of a global financial crisis, that says a lot about the resilience and strength of the Chinese economy. Revised figures of the country’s gross domestic product released Wednesday show a 13 percent expansion in China’s economy. Economists are saying that with continued growth [...]

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