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The Spring Book Show, scheduled for the Cobb Galleria Center in Atlanta March 25-27, is offering two day-long workshops for aspiring authors. A faculty of 20 widely acclaimed Southern authors and book industry professionals will teach the classes.

L.B. May and Associates announces that the 2011 Spring Book Show will be held March 25-27 at the Cobb Galleria Centre in north Atlanta.

The current issue of the Southern Review of Books discusses the best-selling books of all time. The Bible and Quotations from Chairman Mao top the list.

The world press recently carried a story about a 6-year-old boy in Great Britain getting a lucrative contract to write 23 books for an American publisher. The story was a hoax.

Oil company Chevron has announced a bid of $834 million for its 23.44% stake in Colonial Pipeline Co., but existing stockholders have a right of first refusal in any sale of Colonial stock.

The New England Independent Booksellers Association, New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association and Southern Independent Book sellers Alliance will hold training sessions for independent bookstores in Boston on Aug. 19-20.

Librarians from throughout the United States, but especially New York and New England, are invited to attend the Great American Bargain Book Show scheduled for Boston’s Hynes Convention Center on Thursday-Friday, August 19-20.

To familiarize the burgeoning church bookstore market with the availability of low-cost Christian books, the Great American Bargain Book Show is waiving the $50 registration fee for church bookstore attendees.

More than 370 of the available vendor spaces have already been sold for the Great American Bargain Book Show that will be held at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston on August 19-20. A record turnout of bargain book vendors and buyers is expected.

Energy PIpeline News issues op-ed piece on key issues related to BP Macondo Well blowout in U.S. Gulf of Mexico.