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The power of reading: Philadelphia children's fair has a long tradition and an eager audience.		Jan 1, 2007	762
Textbooks: the big squeeze: increasing costs, often fueled by frequent updates and high-tech extras many professors don't use, put students in a bind.		Sep 1, 2006	1348
Well, it can't hurt ... does the New York Times best-seller list matter for black books?		Jul 1, 2006	1527
In his footsteps: Johnson's company began publishing its own books to satisfy growing interest in black history.		Jan 1, 2006	566
A change the air: book industry eyes the market and goes after diverse talent to reach it.		Jan 1, 2006	951
The "talking head": with the "paid-mouthpiece" episode behind him, Armstrong Williams plans a book.		Nov 1, 2005	572
Rise and Fly: Tall Tales and Mostly True Rules of Bid Whist.	Book Review	Nov 1, 2005	453
Buying Zane: Strebor Books founder says her new deal with Simon & Schuster frees her to write more.		Sep 1, 2005	606
Lost in time: scholars react to a doctoral student's discovery that a "pioneer" of African American women's literature was not black at all.		Sep 1, 2005	1358
Street smarts: book vendors count on foot traffic, marketing instincts and the First Amendment in the battle for profits.		Jul 1, 2005	1549
To make a journalist black: a legacy of books by and about African Americans in the field catalogue their successes and struggles.		Jul 1, 2005	2189
Is anybody out there? A closer look at the dire picture unearthed in the NEA's Reading at Risk study turns up some hopeful signs.		May 1, 2005	941
Starting here, starting now: the basics of getting your book into print.		Nov 1, 2004	3425
Mastering deceit: Jayson Blair, self-avowed plagiarist/fabricator who brought shame on himself and The New York Times, keeps a straight face before skeptics as BIBR asks the questions.	Interview	May 1, 2004	979
Black America's popular historian: Lerone Bennett Jr. almost retired after 50 years at Ebony. Now his next five books, like his first 10 works, will have to be written after hours, too.		Jan 1, 2004	882
The last word.		Nov 1, 2003	586
Beverly Lowry's speculative "nonfiction": the white author of a new Madam Walker biography is lauded by the mainstream as if Walker's award-winning black chroniclers never existed. But Lowry also acknowledges mistakes in her Walker text to BIBR and vows to fix some of them in the paperback edition.	Book Review	Sep 1, 2003	1489
The Best of Emerge Magazine.	Book Review	Sep 1, 2003	486
The mystery of Oprah's "Classics": no one seems to know what books will hit it big with America's favorite talk-show host this summer--and everybody's interested.		Jul 1, 2003	983