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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/18/2009
First week delivers huge sales fillip to Jon Ronson book Richard and Judy's book club might be meeting an untimely end this summer but Jonathan Ross has stepped into the literary breach, launching a book club on Twitter which has sent his first choice, Jon Ronson's The Men Who Stare at Goats, soaring up the bestseller charts. "I have a great idea! Let's start a book club on twitter! One a week...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
Following low ratings on UKTV's Watch channel, the Richard & Judy's Book Club talk show has been canceled--six months before the contract expires. UK television hosts and literary taste-makers Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan couldn't muster strong ratings on the digital channel, Bookseller reports. The duo recently announced their summer reading list , but the show will end on July 3rd. Here's...
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Screenwerk (Free subscription) | 04/21/2009
There have been several sites in the local space, including Judy’s Book and Backfence, that have been shuttered and relaunched after their assets were acquired by somebody else. Grayboxx is now in that category too (perhaps I should say again in that category). After a couple of transactions that didn’t quite happen, Grayboxx has apparently [...]
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/05/2009
Eleven years in the hot seat on the books desk! That's 11 Man Booker prizes... Harry Potters1-... Zadie Smith goes from frumpy undergrad to chic superstar... Richard and Judy's book club... vampires and Cathars arise from their centuries-long sleep to become the hottest properties in fiction. And Anita Brookner's still going strong.
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Voucher Alerts (Free subscription) | 03/27/2009
Bookworms rejoice - CD WOW! are now selling an extensive range of books at rock bottom prices! Check out CD WOW!’s book page for all the best deals on children’s books, chart bestsellers, Richard & Judy’s Book Club Reads, pre-orders on the latest releases and much much more…
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Quillblog (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
It’s not quite Oprah, but in the U.K. it’s the closest thing there is. Television celebrities Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan are the hosts of Britain’s wildly popular Richard and Judy’s Book Club, and this year two Canadians have made their reading list. From the CBC: Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo and Winnipegger Andrew Davidson’s The [...] Related...
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The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 12/31/2008
The announcement of the annual reading list for Richard and Judy's Book Club has, in recent years, provoked a flurry of interest in the authors who have made the grade and rapid badging-up of the books in Waterstone's and Borders. But the 10 books to be picked over by the king and queen of daytime TV, revealed at the weekend, seem to have barely dented the public consciousness this time round. That's...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/27/2008
Rowling gives her last magical offering while Richard & Judy's Book Club will lose its impact following move from Channel 4
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The Engine Room (Free subscription) | 12/17/2008
Mrs Apus interrupted my musings this morning by asking if I knew the meaning of a word she'd just encountered in her current read, Andrew Taylor's The American Boy (not only a winner of the Historical Dagger award, but shortlisted by Richard and Judy's Book Club , no less). Now Mrs A's vocab is at least as extensive as mine so I was surprised, and asked for the word and its context, which is: daedal...
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VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 12/16/2008
Local news and discussion site Outside.in has raised an undisclosed amount of new funding from existing investors. Let’s hope the New York startup has enough money now to keep the going during a tough time for many media and news organizations. Local search sites like Judy’s Book have failed, but it looks Outside.in co-founder John Geraci [...]
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 12/16/2008
Local news and discussion site Outside.in has raised an undisclosed amount of new funding from existing investors. Let’s hope the New York startup has enough money now to keep the going during a tough time for many media and news organizations. Local search sites like Judy’s Book have failed , but it looks like Outside.in co-founder John Geraci may have been right when he told us the competition...
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Internet Startups (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
Seattle-based user-generated review site Judy’s Book is back from the dead. You read that correctly - while other startups are biting the dust, previously-deadpooled Judy’s Book is back online and under new ownership. The site was originally launched in July 2005 and was shut down in 2007 after burning through $10.5 million in capital. New investors [...]
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Gridskipper (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
There are plenty of bookstore chains in London. If you're looking for that latest read from Richard and Judy's Book Club (translation for Yanks: Oprah's book club), you can slip in to any number of WH Smiths. If you want...
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VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
The hyper-local concept, which revolves around content — like business reviews — targeted to local niches, has had it rough. Over the last 18 months, two venture-backed start-ups, Judy’s Book and BackFence, have had to shut down. Another site, Insider Pages, sold to Citysearch without generating much of a return to its investors. Only Yelp [...]
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Trashionista (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
I bought this book as it was a Richard & Judy summer read and out of the collection they had for this summer, The Pirate's Daughter looked the most interesting. Richard & Judy's book club had introduced me to some cracking books in the past and I was sure this was going to be another of them. It is the fictional story of Errol Flynn and his brief love affair with sixteen year old Ida and their...
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