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The 13th Philippine Book Development Month didn't start with a flashy event featuring lots of glitter and glam, but, like a really good book, with a quiet start that would only signify a slow and steady buildup to a wham-bang narrative climax and denoument.
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The National Book Development Board
presents
GALING PINOY, BASAHIN!
The 13 th Philippine Book Development Month
read more...The National Book Development Board (NBDB) and the Manila Critics Circle (MCS) have announced the finalists for the 28th National Book Awards.
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Robin
Hemley's article
"The
Great Book Blockade of 2009"
, posted on the McSweeney's site,
has had the blogosphere stirred up for some time now. In a nutshell:
the
Bureau
of Customs
(BOC), later backed by the
Department
of Finance
(DOF), imposed duty on international books entering
the co...
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Dan Brown fans will be happy to know that after six long years, and amidst all the media frenzy from the infringement raps that were resolved in his favor, the novelist is back in the news due to another controversy -- the September 15, 2009 release of the third installment of Robert Langdon's "Sher...
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