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News stories from the book world in December 2004

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Bad Sex Award

20 December 2004

To the amusement of literary scene watchers (but not presumably of the author, who was the first winner in the award's 12 years to decline the invitation to the ceremony) Tom Wolfe was awarded this year's Bad Sex Award for a passage from I Am Charlotte Simmons.  Read more

Christmas jitters

13 December 2004

The all-important festive season is not currently delivering what booksellers were hoping to get for Christmas. The general trend on Britain’s high street is down, affected by a stalled housing market, high petrol prices, rising utility bills and general uneasiness about what the future holds in store.  Read more

Googling into academia

6 December 2004

The launch of Google Scholar was bound to bring the Internet giant into conflict with publishers who are fighting off the open access threat to their business (see Open access, the way of the future? and Google Print targets books in previous News Review columns).  Read more