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Reuters - Whatever the winner of the 40th Booker Prize says, victory at the awards ceremony in London on Tuesday is as much about cash as literary kudos.

TORONTO (MARKET WIRE) MPS Mobile's Global Reader, a worldwide mobile content distribution service, today announced a major content partnership with Simon & Schuster. As part of the agreement, more than five hundred of Simon & Schuster's bestselling and popular titles will be available via the Global Reader mobile distribution network, accessible to readers on any Internet-enabled mobile device they are currently using.

Publishing News: Exec named managing director of N.Y. office -- Variety has tapped Millie Chiavelli as managing director of its New York office.

Publishing News: Macrovision sells magazine to Capitol group -- TV Guide has finally been unloaded to a private equity buyer.

YARDLEY, PA (MARKET WIRE) Journal Register Company (PINKSHEETS: JRCO) today announced that it has appointed John O. Strek as its acting Chief Financial Officer, effective October 31, 2008. Mr. Strek replaces Julie A. Beck who resigned as the Company's Executive Vice president and Chief Financial Officer, effective as of October 31, 2008, to pursue another opportunity.

AP - He was a yellow tabby with twinkling green eyes, who arrived in the overnight drop box of a farmland library one frigid January night. Dewey Readmore Books became the library's star boarder and an international celebrity.

NASHVILLE, TN (MARKET WIRE) Although only 17 percent of Protestant churchgoers in America demonstrate a "decent" level of spiritual maturity, a widespread recommitment to biblical standards has the potential to ignite revival, according to a new book by Brad Waggoner, vice president of B&H Publishing Group.

AP - "No Time to Think: The Menace of Media Speed and the 24-hour News Cycle" (Continuum Books. 240 pages. $24.95), by Howard Rosenberg and Charles S. Feldman: Critics who pan 24-hour news channels now have a pair of unlikely allies ? two veteran journalists who agree that frantic deadlines and an endless hunger for content have left news shows bloated and often worthless.

Playbill - "Ugly Betty" star Michael Urie and "SNL" regular Kristin Wiig are scheduled to be part of the Oct. 13 performance of Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words at the Triad.