Tintin lawyers denounce 'book burning' trial over Congo comic - Big Hollywood
Lawyers for the publishers of the controversial "Tintin in the Congo" on Monday compared a legal attempt to ban the comic book, for racism, to book burning. "I cannot accept racism but I consider it equally lamentable that we burn books. To ban books is to burn them," Alain Berenboom, lawyer for

West's book 'a pleasing process' - Charleston Daily Mail
MORGANTOWN -- In some ways, Jerry West found that working on his soon-to-be-published autobiography has been a "pleasing process." It will be a candid book of his life, revealing a lot about himself that many people don't know. He tells about how he

June book sales - Examiner
Who doesn’t like a great book sale where you can find priceless treasures for cheap? Starting as low as a quarter, could you really go wrong. So grab a pen and paper to jot down the details and your coin purse (for splurging of course) and go out

Book publishers look forward to the Apple Effect - Newcastle Herald
When Apple devotees finally get their gleaming new iPads tomorrow, they won’t be able to download any Australian titles from Apple’s iBookstore. That’s a shame, but local publishers don’t seem too concerned. Some even seem relieved. Victoria Nash, head of digital publishing at Pan Macmillan

Photographers invited for Blue Book contest - Statesman Journal
Oregon's amateur photographers are invited to submit photographs for the front and back covers of the Oregon Blue Book, the state's official fact book, which observes its 100th anniversary in 2011. The State Archives, which publishes the Oregon Blue

Book review: 'The Invisible Bridge' by Julie Orringer - Los Angeles Times
into the summer holidays — one in which you can lose yourself without the guilty suspicion that you're slumming — then Julie Orringer's "The Invisible The Invisible Bridge," by contrast, is in every admirable sense an "ambitious

Hong Kong Securities Regulator Fines Bank Of America-Merrill Lynch Units HK$3.5 Million - NASDAQ
HONG KONG -(Dow Jones)- Hong Kong's securities regulator said Monday it fined two units of Bank of America-Merrill Lynch HK$3.5 million (US$449,000) for " systems and controls failings" after it found that an executive at the investment bank was concealing losses on a trading book for nearly a year