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Fixed book price (FBP) is a form of resale price maintenance applied to books. It allows publishers to determine the price of a book at which it is to be sold to the public. FBP can take the form of a law, mandatory obligation on all retailers , or an agreement between publishers and booksellers .
I love making Christchurch a character for the books, creating an 'alternate' version of the city, where the main character often muses that 'Christchurch is broken'." [6] His fourth novel, Blood Men, was released in February 2010. Cleave won the 2010 Ngaio Marsh Best Crime Novel Award for Blood Men. [2]
The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
A college cost calculator, in the United States, is an online tool allowing students and their parents to calculate how much college is likely to cost. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Numbers are input into the online calculator, and if done properly, it gives an estimate of the likely expenses for that student attending that particular college.
It has been shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Book Awards in the Novel category. [4] Cleave was inspired to write The Other Hand from his childhood in West Africa. It was released in the US and Canada in January 2009 under the title Little Bee. [5] Gold, his third novel, was called "bold and brave" by The Observer. [6]
Ryan Van Cleave (born 1972 in Neenah, Wisconsin) is an American freelance writer, writing coach, and keynote speaker. He runs the creative writing program at the Ringling College of Art and Design in Florida.
Gold is a 2012 sports novel by British author Chris Cleave and was published by Simon & Schuster on 3 July 2012 in the US, [1] and by Sceptre in the UK. The story focuses on the friendship and rivalry between two women and the effects that come from the choices they make and the events that they cannot prevent.
Incendiary is a novel by British writer Chris Cleave. When it was first published in the summer of 2005, it garnered international headlines for the eerie similarity of its plot to the 7 July 2005 London bombings in England carried out on the same day it was published. It won the 2005 Book-of-the-Month Club First Fiction Award.