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• Global gay rights protest has roots in Seattle
Balliett's effort to stage a Seattle protest quickly mushroomed on social publishing Web sites and blogs set up and run by Seattle-based WetPaint.com. "We've gotten people in over 300 cities to start planning protests, each in their own city," said ...
• Names of far-right U.K. party posted online
The leak came despite a High Court injunction this year prohibiting five people from publishing a list of party members. "It was entirely wrongly used without authority by a very small group of previous party members who were expelled late last year ...
• Mother sues her author daughter over abuse claims
Heart-rending "misery memoirs" are a booming genre in publishing, and this is not the first time an autobiography's truth has been questioned. American writer Augusten Burroughs was sued by the family depicted in “Running With Scissors,” his 2002 ...
• Books for those bummed about staying home
Since 1994, a small Michigan-based publisher, RDR Books, has been publishing a series called "I Should Have Stayed Home." Two new editions were added this year: "I Should Have Stayed Home Hotels: Hospitality Disasters at Home and Abroad" and "I ...
• Harry Potter first edition nets nearly $41,000
It was published in the United States in 1998 as “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” and the boy wizard soon became a publishing phenomenon. The seventh and final installment in Harry’s adventures, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ...