They will include "the nation's founding documents to great speeches, sermons, letters, literature and poetry, biography, and even some of her favorite songs and movies."

"The book will also include portraits of some of the extraordinary men and women she admires and who embody her deep love of country, her strong rootedness in faith, and her profound love and appreciation of family," said the publisher.

Woodward, who in recent years wrote several bestselling books on former President George W. Bush, has been working on the Obama White House book for more than a year. The book, released initially in the United States, does not yet have a title or print run and no more details were available, said Victoria Meyer, spokeswoman for Simon & Schuster.

An associate editor of The Washington Post newspaper, Woodward is well known for his investigative work with fellow reporter Carl Bernstein that played a key role in forcing President Richard Nixon to resign in 1974 in the Watergate scandal.

"When I strutted on to the stage for that audition, I was a scared wee lassie, still grieving for my mother, not caring how I looked," Boyle said.

"I think I've grown up a lot in the last year, become more of a lady, and I'm not so frightened any more.

"My story demonstrates that you shouldn't just look at the label, you should look at the whole person, emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually, and I hope that telling it will show that dreams are not impossible, if you've got courage and a willingness to go on - no matter what the circumstances."

1. ttyl, ttfn, l8r, g8r (series) by Lauren Myracle. Reasons: Nudity, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group, Drugs
2. And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson. Reasons: Homosexuality
3. The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. Reasons: Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit, Anti-Family, Offensive Language, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group, Drugs, Suicide
4. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Reasons: Racism, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group
5. Twilight (series) by Stephenie Meyer. Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group
6. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group
7. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult. Reasons: Sexism, Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group, Drugs, Suicide, Violence
8. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things by Carolyn Mackler. Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group
9. The Color Purple Alice Walker. Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group
10. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier. Reasons: Nudity, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group

Cutler holds a special place in Stones history as the mustachioed roadie in the related concert documentary "Gimme Shelter" who coolly pleads with fans to climb off the scaffolding or get off the stage at the California speedway. His is also the voice heard introducing the band at the start of their 1970 live album "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out."

His book recounts his life-threatening encounters with the Hells Angels in the aftermath of Altamont, as well as his subsequent duties with the Grateful Dead.

• The Lost Symbol: A Novel by Dan Brown (Doubleday)
• The Associate: A Novel by John Grisham (Doubleday)
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam/Amy Einhorn)
• I, Alex Cross by James Patterson (Little, Brown)
• Ford County by John Grisham (Doubleday)

• Going Rogue: An American Life by Sarah Palin (Harper)
• Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment by Steve Harvey (Harper)
• Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government by Glenn Beck (Threshold)
• Liberty & Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto by Mark R. Levin
• True Compass: A Memoir by Edward M. Kennedy (Twelve)

She told us: "Well, the second two times I went into rehab, to be honest with you, I had to go because it was a court thing. It was an obligation. I had to do it to stay out of getting any jail time. And I took responsibility for that. And it was like a vacation."

"I love meeting new people and seeing what they've been experiencing. That's what I go through in different characters. And I met some great people.

"It was a nice time to shut everyone off for a while because there was so much noise. There were some things I had done... I had put myself in situations which I probably should have thought through."

The reality star is scheduled to release I Just Want You to Know: Letters to My Kids on Love, Faith and Family on April 13 by Zondervan Publishers. The personal book will feature prayers, excerpts from her journal and eight individual letters addressed to each one of her children.

"Each day the thought crosses my mind that when they get older, my kids are going to look back and think about how they were raised," Gosselin says in a statement. "I know they will have a lot of questions about things that may not make sense because they were raised so unconventionally. I don't want them to grow up and wonder; I want them to know without a shadow of a doubt how much I love them and how much every sacrifice made was worth it for them."

Motoko Rich, my colleague, spoke with a person who had a direct conversation with a person at Macmillan familiar with the conversations with Amazon. Macmillan offered Amazon the opportunity to buy Kindle editions on the same "agency" model as it will sell e-books to Apple for the iPad. Under this model, the publisher sets the consumer book price and takes 70 percent of each sale, leaving 30 percent to the retailer. Macmillan said Amazon could continue to buy e-books under its current wholesale model, paying the publisher 50 percent of the hardcover list price while pricing the e-book at any level Amazon chooses, but that Macmillan would delay those e-book editions by seven months after hardcover release. Amazon's removal of Macmillan titles on Friday appears to be a direct reaction to that.

Dear Customers:

Macmillan, one of the "big six" publishers, has clearly communicated to us that, regardless of our viewpoint, they are committed to switching to an agency model and charging $12.99 to $14.99 for e-book versions of bestsellers and most hardcover releases.

We have expressed our strong disagreement and the seriousness of our disagreement by temporarily ceasing the sale of all Macmillan titles. We want you to know that ultimately, however, we will have to capitulate and accept Macmillan's terms because Macmillan has a monopoly over their own titles, and we will want to offer them to you even at prices we believe are needlessly high for e-books. Amazon customers will at that point decide for themselves whether they believe it's reasonable to pay $14.99 for a bestselling e-book. We don't believe that all of the major publishers will take the same route as Macmillan. And we know for sure that many independent presses and self-published authors will see this as an opportunity to provide attractively priced e-books as an alternative.

Kindle is a business for Amazon, and it is also a mission. We never expected it to be easy!

Thank you for being a customer.

Hachette will handle sales and distribution of Peterson's titles into traditional and nontraditional trade channels internationally, for both physical and e-book formats. Hachette Book Group COO Kenneth Michaels said, "We're excited to be working with Peterson's, and look forward to helping them expand their brand both domestically and internationally, as well as supporting them in their developing e-book strategy."

"I love the connection I've made with my readers through my books and am so excited to update them on all the stories that have happened since Mommywood," Tori said in a statement on Thursday. "It's been an amazing and emotional journey so far and being able to share it is a gift."

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"[The book] will once again allow readers to share Tori's unique and very public life and misadventures -- complete with growing children, daredevil husband Dean, a tight circle of friends, welcome and invasive cameras, and an infamous mother -- with humor and candor," Gallery Books said in a release. "The new book will offer fans the latest updates in her never complacent life balancing parenthood with the pressures of living in Tinseltown, including reaction to the tabloid scrutiny of her weight, the truth behind the latest 'feud' making headlines [and] becoming a mini-mogul via her many business ventures and lines."

It is working with iPhone app creation platform Mobile Roadie, using an author-focused variation of Mobile Roadie's app creator that currently supports apps by musicians including Brad Paisley and Alice in Chains. Releasing today are apps for authors Steve Berry, Sophie Kinsella, and Karen Marie Moning.

The apps will let fans preview books, access bonus content, interact with other fans, check upcoming author appearances, listen to audiobook clips, and watch author videos and book trailers.

The company also reported that its Kindle electronic reader became the most "gifted" item in Amazon history. Are bound books soon to be the eight-track tapes of the reading world?

In another alarming sign for traditional publishers, it seems that Amazon's already cheaper-than-a-physical-book price point of roughly $9.99 is still too expensive for many consumers. An analysis by the lit bloggers at Galley Cat found that 64 of the 100 e-books topping the Kindle best-seller list yesterday were priced at $0.00. Yes, that's right: free. The list of free Kindle best-sellers includes some classics that are in the public domain (e.g., Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Jane Austen's zombie-free Pride and Prejudice).

But it also features recent titles from mostly smaller publishers, like the current No. 1, Noel Hynd's Midnight in Madrid, about a U.S. Treasury agent investigating the theft a mysterious relic from a Madrid museum.

The PubTrack survey of book buyers found that 34% of Americans have reduced the number of books they are buying, while 19% of consumers are either buying more used books or swapping books with others. Other ways consumers are looking to save money when buying books include buying fewer hardcovers and more paperbacks, and only buying books that are being sold at steep discounts or that are on sale. And in a direct contrast to the hope that consumers might buy books as an inexpensive form of entertainment, only 2% of consumers said they are buying more books as an alternative to more expensive kinds of entertainment.

Waterstone's has launched a standalone Marketplace site in conjunction with Alibris, the giant online bookshop that sells used and rare books via a network of independent bookellers. In addition, individual book searches on the Waterstone's site now show secondhand copies, which are available to buy via a marketplace link.

Waterstone's said the development meant it could offer "access to tens of millions of items stocked by independent sellers from 45 countries around the world". Featured shops on the marketplace site include, Bailey Hill Book Shop, Castle Cary, Somerset; Literary Cat Books and Prints, Wales; Cromer Books; and Spinetinglers, Ballygowan.

Academic bookseller Blackwell signed a similar deal with Alibris in February last year. Borders made the same deal in September thus year. Waterstone's will also be competing with Amazon and Play.com, which both offer secondhand books.

Dr Strlic told BBC News that the idea for new test came from observing museum conservators as they worked. "I often noticed that conservators smelled paper during their assessment," he recalled. "I thought, if there was a way we could smell paper and tell how degraded it is from the compounds it emits, that would be great."

The test does just that. It pinpoints ingredients contained within the blend of volatile compounds emanating from the paper. That mixture, the researchers say, "is dependent on the original composition of the... paper substrate, applied media, and binding". Their new method is called "material degradomics". The scientists are able to use it to find what chemicals books release, without damaging the paper. It involves an analytical technique called gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. This simply "sniffs" the paper and separates out the different compounds.

Beyond a Nov. 16 television interview with Oprah Winfrey, nothing is scheduled for Chicago. New York will feature media appearances only. Instead, the itinerary for Palin, whose "Going Rogue" comes out Nov. 17, includes Noblesville, Ind.; Washington, Pa.; and Rochester, N.Y. "She wants to be unconventional. She is unconventional," HarperCollins spokeswoman Tina Andreadis said Wednesday. "She feels like this is where her fans are and Harper feels this is where she'll sell the most books."

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The tour starts Nov. 18 at a Barnes & Noble in Grand Rapids, Mich., where Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, and running mate Sen. John McCain made a campaign appearance last fall.

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The tour will last about three weeks, with a break for Thanksgiving, and will end around Dec. 10, after which the increase in holiday shoppers makes it difficult for stores to hold events, Andreadis said. Palin will travel by bus for much of the time, likely accompanied by family and by aide Meg Stapleton.

The full schedule has not been completed, but confirmed locations - many of which Palin campaigned at last year - include Cincinnati; Columbus, Ohio; Roanoke, Va.; the Army post in Fort Bragg, N.C.; Orlando, Fla.; and Albuquerque, N.M.

For a politician known more for her folksy expressions than her literary prowess, Sarah Palin has made enough money on her yet unpublished first book to make most writers blush.

The former Alaska governor, 2008 vice-presidential candidate and likely 2012 Republican presidential contender earned at least a $1.25m advance for her memoir Going Rogue, to be published next month by HarperCollins.

It is unclear how much the advance will total once the book hits shelves, since book advances are often distributed in several parts. She earlier was reported to have received $7m. Hillary Clinton received $8m total advance for her 2000 memoir Living History.

The book, penned with conservative writer Lynn Vincent, is already a bestseller on reservation lists at Amazon.com and other booksellers. The figure, revealed in a disclosure statement filed today in Alaska, is likely only a portion of the entire advance, because the statement does not include the period since she resigned from office and delivered the manuscript. HarperCollins plans an initial print run of 1.5m copies.

The contract calls for Browne to publish the titles over the course of three years and will also see HarperOne create The Sylvia Browne Collection, a series that will feature books about spirituality and the supernatural that Browne will have a large role, per the publisher, in selecting and also supporting through various ways, from writing introductions to promoting on her Web site.

Shortly before Labor Day rumors surfaced that Weinstein Books was being shut down, but publisher Judy Hottensen, while acknowledging that its staff had been cut from five to four and was looking to control expenses, said Weinstein Books was continuing to acquire titles. Hottensen, along with the Weinstein Books team, will remain in its current offices and "will participate in the development of the longer-term plan for the JV," the press release said.

First new books to come from the venture, which will still be called Weinstein Books, will be titles that had been in the Weinstein Books pipeline including All Things at Once by Mika Brezinski, a Raquel Welch beauty guide and The Overnight Socialite by Bridie Clark.

Mandela himself, who bestowed these "traces of my life and those who have lived it with me" on his eponymous foundation, hopes the collection will afford the world a glimpse into his mind and his past. "Anyone who has explored the world of archives will know that it is a treasure house, one that is full of surprises, crossing paths, dead ends, painful reminders and unanswered questions," he said.

Jonny Geller, an agent at the Curtis Brown literary agency and the man entrusted with handling the book's worldwide rights, described the collection on offer as an "utterly remarkable" resource. "I've never heard of a living political leader giving up their entire archive," he said as he waited for his plane to Frankfurt. "I can't think of any other political leader who has opened up their archive without any censorship.

"There's everything from political scribblings to letters to his wife. It's an incredible archive, which will not only have political and historical insights, but which will also provide an emotional insight into the man too. It will give a portrait of the man and his life."

Soon the famed Glow in the Dark tour will be making a comeback, albeit in the form of a 288-page book, accompanying live music CD and a Web-based art video.

On Friday, Kanye took to his blog with stills of the upcoming project, saying, "This is the photo book from the Glow in the Dark Tour. Nabil captured the experience like crazy! When I look at the photos it brings me right back to that time! It's very emotional for me because I didn't want to have to tour but my pain brought my greatest creation to date. Thank you to everybody who came to the shows and experienced this moment in time with me!"

The book will be a sequential journey through the trek, made up of initial set-design sketches by West himself with behind-the-scenes and performance photos by Elderkin, the director behind West's "Champion," "Welcome to Heartbreak" and "Paranoid" videos.

Back in the 1980s, Nelson Mandela was front and center on the world stage. Now, Macmillan aims to see history repeat itself, thanks to a global, 13-language launch of the picture-book adaptation of his autobiography. The company's unprecedented release of Long Walk to Freedom "was intended to reflect Nelson Mandela's importance to South Africa and the world," says Emma Hopkin, managing director of Macmillan Children’s Books in the U.K.

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Those numerous and simultaneous translations were, in fact, an essential part of the deal for the Foundation and Little, Brown. Although English is South Africa's lingua franca, it is actually the first language of only a small minority of the country's children. Hopkin explains that "because of Nelson Mandela’s importance to South Africa, the goal was that every South African child would have the opportunity to read this book." To achieve this end, Macmillan printed Long Walk to Freedom not only in Afrikaans, but in isiZulu, isiXhosa, Sesotho and the rest of South Africa's 11 official languages.

John Sterling acquired world rights to the book--it's the former president's White House diaries--which FSG plans to publish in October 2010. Agent Lynn Nesbit brokered the deal and FSG described the book as a truncated version of the diary entries Carter made while he was Commander-in-Chief, from 1977 through 1981.

The one-time peanut farmer kept a lengthy record of his time in office--his diaries span more than 5,000 pages--and the entire collection of notes is currently available in the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum. The annotated version, which will include photographs, will, per FSG, "offer comments on what happened and why."

U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain threw out the lawsuit brought by Missy Chase Lapine, saying the books weren't similar except for their goal of hiding healthy food inside favorite meals of children.

However, the judge declined to rule on Ms. Lapine's claims against Jerry Seinfeld, who on David Letterman's show last year noted her three names and joked that people with three names -- including James Earl Ray and Mark David Chapman -- have turned out to be assassins. She said those claims should instead be filed in state court, where Ms. Lapine's lawyer, Howard Miller, said he planned to bring them.

"They are still very much alive," he said of those claims, along with claims against News Corp.'s HarperCollins that the publisher misappropriated information from Ms. Lapine's book, "The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids' Favorite Meals," when it rejected her proposal. Ms. Seinfeld's cookbook, "Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food," was published by Collins, a HarperCollins imprint.

PW: You're a comedian, so why do a memoir instead of, say, a humor book?

KG: You know, I think those books are great, but I just didn't really have a desire to take my act and put it in print form. I do so many [comedy] specials--I probably do more standup specials than any comedian--so I thought, well, god, with two Bravo specials a year and me being on the road all the time, nobody's gonna buy a book if it's just my standup printed. When [Random House] said they wanted a memoir, I thought, well, what if I did a sort of hybrid--part memoir, part humor book. Then I found out that in your world it's all about the categories, which I didn’t even know. So they told me, "Well, technically this is a memoir," and I said, "Well, you have to call it a memoir according to Kathy Griffin" because god forbid I get somebody's fu***ing birthday wrong and then the next thing you know I'm James Frey.

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Jon Krakauer's new book drops this month and, of course, Dan Brown's new novel, The Lost Symbol. Nervous about the competition?

Well, I'm gonna outsell that guy, too. What's that guy Dan Brown write? Sounds like mush to me. That hack--I'm taking him down.

Skyhorse has bumped its first printing of the book, by journalist Phil Hanrahan, from 15,000 to 20,000 and is also hoping to boost sales after fine-tuning the title's pub date. Life After was originally slated to drop in late September, but Skyhorse is now releasing the title on October 5, to conincide with the Monday Night Football game featuring the Vikings (Favre's new squad) and the Packers (his former squad).

Thomas Semosh at Skyhorse said the house is doing "a huge push" for the book and is hoping Hanrahan can land unexpected press gigs because of the heightened coverage of Favre during the early season. Hanrahan is currently scheduled to tour throughout Wisconsin in November.

Germany has complained that Google had scanned books from U.S. libraries for a database without asking the owners, and there are also fears the service will be expensive for libraries as it is unclear what Google may charge them. "We hope that the court will not give its approval to the accord, or at least that it will remove German authors and publishers ... so they are unaffected," said German Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries in a ministry statement.

If that happens, Germans could decide for themselves whether to make their works available to Google. German officials will take part in a fairness hearing on Oct. 7, said the ministry. Last week, the European Union's media commissioner said she backed the Google deal.

Academic bookseller Blackwell signed a similar deal with Alibris in February last year. Borders will also be competing with Amazon and Play.com, which both offer secondhand books. Borders UK head of e-commerce Julie Howkins said that the retailer had decided to set up the new offer on its website to "make sure we're offering our customers the greatest range of books possible". Howkins added that "cash-strapped parents and students have now got another alternative" for back to school titles.

Individual product pages now offer second hand books where available along side other variations, such as hardback or e-book. Howkins said that this would insure that customers had the "widest selection possible". The section launched at the beginning of August, however Howkins said she expects sales to increase with the back to school season.

As many as 10,000 retail stores will close nationwide this year, led by clothing stores, electronics and food-and-beverage stores, and department stores, in that order, a study released Tuesday shows.

If the forecast holds, the store closings this year will be nearly double that of last year, when store closings stood at 5,100, said Sandra Reese, a principal at Grant Thornton LLP's offices in Chicago. Last year, the biggest store closings occurred in electronics, followed by home improvement-furnishings stores and in third place, apparel stores.

"It's been amazing to me how, in conversations, everyone from the low-end to the high-end shopper is cutting back on spending and not spending on lavish purchases," Reese said.

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Though bookstores represented only a fraction of the total, their closings are forecast to jump 500 percent from last year, to 400 stores.

This week, the Urban Libraries Council (ULC), a member organization of medium and large public libraries called for changes in the settlement plan, as did New York State librarian Bernard Margolis, in a separate open letter to leaders in the library community.

"This is a pivotal moment in the history of access to recorded information, not unlike the introduction of moveable type or the birth of the Internet," wrote Susan Benton, the Urban Libraries Council's (ULC) new president and CEO, in a letter to the federal court overseeing approval of the settlement. "It is important, therefore, that the needs of the public at large shape the thinking of those responsible for guiding this extraordinary advance."

"We'd always hoped to publish earlier," Cary Goldstein, spokesman for book publisher Twelve, said in an e-mail to us. "The production process moved faster than expected, so we were able to shave off some time." Kennedy, who is battling brain cancer, collaborated on the memoir with Ron Powers, co-author of Flags of our Fathers, chronicling the World War II battle of Iwo Jima.

In the book, the 77-year-old Kennedy recounts the "heartbreak" of his brothers' assassinations, his more than four decades in the Senate and finding the "woman who changed his life," wife Victoria Reggie Kennedy, according to the publisher's description.

Peter Brantley, a director at coalition co-founder Internet Archive said the group, whose members will be formally disclosed in the next couple of weeks, is being co-led by Gary Reback, a Silicon Valley lawyer involved in the Department of Justice's antitrust investigation against Microsoft Corp. last decade. Microsoft, Amazon.com Inc. and Yahoo Inc. have agreed to join the group. Mr. Reback did not reply to requests for comment.

Microsoft and Yahoo confirmed their participation. Amazon declined to comment. The coalition is the latest sign that Google's rapid ascent has made it a prime target for competitors, just as Microsoft was reviled as the industry's bully in the 1990s.

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The U.S. Justice Department and state attorneys general are continuing to investigate the settlement and have been discussing their concerns with Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers. The Justice Department sent the U.S. District Court reviewing the agreement a letter last month saying that it was investigating the agreement. The court gave the Justice Department until Sept. 18 to submit any concerns in writing.

But some of Google's close commercial rivals have held their fire publicly, while sharing their views with regulators.

The latest objection, filed with the Manhattan court today, comes from a Washington-based lawyer and writer who specialises in class-action law and monopolies. In his 47-page complaint, Scott Gant argues that potentially millions of authors in America and around the world are being coerced into accepting the deal without being fully informed about its implications.

"Anyone taking part in this project should be doing so as a conscious choice to participate knowing fully what they are doing. In fact, people are being forced to hand over to Google some of their intellectual property often with no understanding of what that means," Gant said.

Under US class-action law, authors and publishers who do not specifically opt out of the settlement are deemed to have signed up to it. But Gant points out that as an author himself — he wrote a book on the digital information revolution called We're All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet Age — he has never received any legal notice about the case.

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Other opponents of the deal include the National Writers Union and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Eighteen professors within the University of California system have also written to the court objecting that the settlement fails to protect the interests of academic authors and puts profit before the public's right to information.

With Chronicle holding onto its post as exclusive publisher of Top Chef books, another book and a trivia game are on the way. In November, the house will publish Top Chef: The Quickfire Cookbook, a $29.95 hardcover written by the creators of the show and featuring a foreword by host Padma Lakshmi. The book draws from the first five seasons and includes 75 recipes culled from Quickfire Challenges, the short, simple contests that make up a portion of each show (e.g., create a flambé dish in a limited amount of time; make an amuse bouche using $10 of ingredients from a vending machine). Bruder thinks it's going to be big: "We expect The Quickfire Cookbook to equal, if not surpass, the performance of the first book. Quickfire is an incredibly popular segment of the show—it translates well to the home kitchen, and the book itself is spectacular."

Mr O'Callaghan, who reversed his Riverdeep educational software company into the publisher of school textbooks and the Curious George children's titles, told the Financial Times he would see his 40 per cent stake cut to "the low 20s" and give up his voting control. "The old equity realises it's well under water," he said. "The difficult parts of the equity aren't being led by some difficult private equity firm or deluded entrepreneur."

The refinancing had averted any risk of a Chapter 11 filing and should carry EMPG through a year in which strained state budgets have prompted falls of up to 30 per cent in school budget spending. Lawyers have been working on the agreement since a May 27 deadline by which EMPG – which competes with Pearson, the educational publisher and owner of the Financial Times – had been due to make cash interest payments to second lien lenders.

The infamous book was sold alongside a signed self-portrait, which fetched 12,300 pounds at Mullock's auctions at Ludlow racecourse, Shropshire. Hitler gave the book to a fellow inmate, an early member of the Nazi party, at Landsberg prison following his failed attempt in 1923 to overthrow the German government, known as the beer hall putsch. The German inscription reads: "Herrn Johann Georg Maurer. In memory of our time together in prison in Landsberg. Cordially dedicated by Adolf Hitler. Christmas 1925."

More than 3,000 McGraw-Hill Professional titles (business, medical and technical) are already available in Kindle format. This fall, Amazon will use the McGraw-Hill content in its on-campus trial programs to make Kindle DX devices available to students. Participating colleges and universities will distribute hundreds of the devices to students across a range of academic disciplines.

Ed Stanford, president of McGraw-Hill Higher Education, said, "The modern student body increasingly requires digital access and capabilities, and we are pleased to be strengthening our partnership with Amazon to help meet these critical needs."