German Border Threat: Cheap Books
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If you want proof that a cultural divide separates Europe and America, the book business is a place to start.
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Two new books provide ambitious overviews of complicated topics.
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Islamist militants threatened to attack Germany and Austria if they do not pull their troops out of Afghanistan, in a statement posted on Sunday on an Internet site used by Al-Qaeda linked militants.
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Bestselling books don't always make great blockbuster films, agents and producers warned authors selling rights at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week.
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A few simple keystrokes may soon turn blather into books. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a way to enlist people across the globe to help digitize books every time they solve the simple distorted word puzzles commonly used to register at Web sites or buy things online.
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Business & money: Markets on both sides of the Atlantic take  fright  at data showing weakness in the US and Germany.
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The Russian-Georgian spying row, Germany's Afghan mission and a French Socialist leader's decision to bow out of the presidential race are key concerns in European papers on Friday.
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I noted yesterday that there seems to be some media fanfare surrounding Amazon's launch of a digital book tablet. It occurred to me that the markets surrounding media such as books, music and movies bear more than a passing resemblance to financial markets, and as such, perhaps they were amenable to a similar method of analysis. Being the owner of a sizable collection of paper books, this led me to consider the drawbacks one faces when Digital Rights Management restrictions are put in place.
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Travel: Rory MacLean recommends the best books for transporting readers to a foreign land
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BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell on a German attempt to criminalise Holocaust-denial across Europe.
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A fire at a historical library in Germany destroyed many more rare books than previously thought.
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Even as readers devour the code-cracking thriller "The Da Vinci Code" and best-selling Iraq War titles, the book trade faces damaging threats from a boom in video games, deeper discounting and online sales of used books.
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Also: Electronic devices seized at border searches. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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Two new books offer correctives to evasions and distortions of the Riefenstahl myth.
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Bestselling books don't always make  great blockbuster films, agents and producers warned authors  selling rights at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week.
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Wednesday's European papers tackle the Asian tsunami disaster, German unemployment and bridge-building between Jews and Muslims.
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Â· Police search for evidence of leaks to US authors  Â· Book claims CIA and MI6 failed to halt smuggling