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Article: Books in 2005: Dead letters? Not yet.
- Article from:
- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- December 28, 2005
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Byline: Jerome Weeks
This was the year the publishing industry created the Quill Awards so they'd get a book prize ceremony onto American TV (just as the Man Booker Prize is televised in England). That way, they'd fire up more interest in books. It's all about literacy, not profits.
Right. No one cared anyway. In the first place, the awards were popularity contests (winners: J.K. Rowling, Stephen King _ those overlooked dears). Second, so few voters went to the Quill site that the trackers of Web traffic couldn't even add up an accurate number.
No wonder blogospheroids still crow over the book's imminent demise _ as if in revenge for ever having ...
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