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Online Journalism Awards (December 2, 2000)
Salon & MSNBC.com win top prizes for general excellence in online journalism.

Bloomsbury wins book award (November 24, 2000)
Margaret Atwood's success in the UK Booker Prize literature award with her book The Blind Assassin and continued magic from boy wizard Harry Potter have led Bloomsbury Publishing to issue a bullish trading forecast in the run up to the important Christmas season.

Award to honor best in American letters (November 14, 2000)
National Book Awards to take pick from 'very American' shortlist

Atwood Wins 2000 Booker Prize (November 7, 2000)
Canadian author Margaret Atwood wins the United Kingdom's most important literary award with her 10th novel, The Blind Assassin.

Canada's Premier Prize for Fiction Names Two Winners (November 2, 2000)
Michael Ondaatje and David Adams Richards win the 2000 Giller Prize.

Booker Shortlist Announced (October 5, 2000)
Zadie Smith got snubbed, but who made the cut? Find out more about the shortlisted titles for this year's Booker Prize.

eBook Award Controversy (October 3, 2000)
The International eBook Award Foundation announced the finalists for the Frankfurt eBook Awards. Oddly, some of the books don't qualify for the category they're finalists in.

Banned Books Week Heroes to be Honored at Library of Congress Event (September 11, 2000)
What do a Boy Scout from California, a Michigan sheep farmer and an 8th grade teacher have in common?? Harry Potter AND an extraordinary commitment to the freedom to read, and they're all coming to Washington to be honored at the Library of Congress.

New Seminar Initiative for School and Library Marketers (September 6, 2000)
PubMarketing 2000 will cover the following topics: an overview of Internet Marketing trends; using your web site to promote products and services; Internet marketing law and; driving traffic to your web site using online, off-line and integrated marketing strategies.

Coffee, Tea and Literacy (September 6, 2000)
Starbucks Annual All Books For Children Book Drive Begins Today Across North America.

Canadian Writer Selected For Barnes & Noble's Prestigious Discover Great New Writers Program (August 23, 2000)
Bonnie Burnard, Author of A Good House, Among Twenty New Writers in Discover's Fall Program.

Beijing to Host 5th Book Fair (July 30, 2000)
Beijing will host the 5th Beijing Book Fair from September 8 to 18, with 300 publishing houses taking part.

The Globe and Mail becomes official newspaper sponsor of International Festival of Authors and the Harbourfront Reading Series (July 12, 2000)
The Globe and Mail signed a multi-year agreement becoming the Official Newspaper Sponsor of the International Festival of Authors.

Annual Conference on Writing for Children (July 11, 2000)
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Announces Our 29th Annual Conference On Writing and Illustrating For Children

Barbara Kingsolver And Jeff Brumbeau Win Inaugural Book Sense Book of the Year Awards at BookExpo America (June 2, 2000)
The winners of the first Book Sense Book of the Year Awards as announced by the American Booksellers Association

Indexing Award Presented (May 30, 2000)
The American Society of Indexers (ASI) and the H.W. Wilson Company present the 1999 Award for Excellence in Indexing to Nedalina Dineva

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