YA author Justine Larbalestier has gone public with her disappointment over her US publisher Bloomsbury's cover art for her forthcoming novel Liar. Specifically, Justine is upset that the cover shows a white girl, and the book is about a black girl.

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The 83-year-old is reported to be considering selling the company he founded more than 56 years ago for some £200 million, with Sir Richard Branson's firm Virgin tipped as a potential buyer.

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A growing practice at universities is the use of 'custom' textbooks. Typically these books have minor variations from the standard version of the textbooks, but are tweaked for a given university.

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The book was buoyed by favorable press and word of mouth. But other books receive similar attention and go nowhere, so why was "Prep" so successful? Conversely, what causes a book that was all the rage at auction time to fall flat at bookstores?

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TV producer Amanda Ross is the voice of commonsense in the world of publishing which get wirdier every day. She knows a good book when she reads on. Ross gave us the Richard & Judy Book Club and has more influence in the publishing world than your average literary critic.

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