However, he says that does not need to mean the death of the book town any time soon.
On the road back from the quarries is the picture-book town of Mergozzo.
Adrian Turpin, director of the Wigtown Book Festival, says it is, quite simply, the biggest thing to happen since the book town was born.
We hope lots of people will come along to the open day and will be inspired to book the town hall for their own private or corporate events.
It was not until 1950 when his first book, The Town And The City, was published.
One of the primary examples in his book is the Georgia town of Serenbe, located 30 miles outside of Atlanta.
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The scrum-half, 33, who is set to play his last game at Knowsley Road against Wigan, will finish the town centre book signing three hours before kick-off.
His comments came after Mr Clarke had questioned Mr McCann about three men named in his book War And An Irish Town.
How would I convince her to check out a book about a small-town schoolteacher who lived quietly and died young, unknown beyond our rural Louisiana parish?
The type of health club you frequent (or want to try) also can boost or lessen the intimidation factor, said Walter Meyer, a San Diego-based author who hits the gym in his home town and while on book tours.
An Essex town's bid to book Beyonce for its carnival may have failed, but its neighbours are planning to offer visitors the next best thing.
Mr Vann uses two sequences to transform what could be another routine tale of small-town life, hurling the book into the outer darkness of the heart.
Stop by the historic Avalon Theatre, built in 1921 and dubbed the "Showplace of the Eastern Shore, " and discover why the town ranked number eight in the book The 100 Best Small Towns in America.
Though privatizing the rock art has been controversial, John Parkington, an emeritus professor of archaeology at the University of Cape Town and author of a 2003 book on the Cederberg paintings, argues that it has been a boon.
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The book opens with him settling in a New Hampshire town and taking a job at a nursing home where his "shining" power helps him comfort the dying.
So, for the audience, that is Motown or other town, give us some tidbits from the book that are something that we might not have ordinarily known.
Going the digital route has certainly been a growing trend -- 3M recently launched a Cloud Library lending service while one Austrian town kicked off its own unique e-book repository based on stickers equipped with QR codes and NFC chips.
If your plans are flexible, book your trip when there are not any major events in town.
Travellers planning to ascend Machu Picchu often book at least one night of lodging in Aguas Calientes, the closest Sacred Valley town to the site.
Several of the book's 11 stories are set in Elk Tooth, a two-bit town of three bars and 80 residents, many with mouth-clogging names: Gilbert Wolfscale, Hard Winter Ulph, Wiregrass Cokendall.
Dudley museum and art gallery is exhibiting the book and three watercolour pictures by Ernest R Fox, who used to live in the town.
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London music venues such as the Forum in Kentish Town and the Hammersmith Apollo were sold off last year, following the Waterstones book chain, which was spun off in 2011.
Upstairs in the Town Hall with Ms. Wood, Thurman's supervisor, Ms. Cameron opened a handwritten book, dated 1906.
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The book is set in the late 1960s, soon after Martin Luther King's assassination, in a small university town in Ohio.
Set in a small town in the West Country where a local election divides the apparently cosy community, Rowling's new book has also divided critics.
From the 360-degree observation deck on the 72nd floor of the Shard, the tallest building in Western Europe at 310m, London opens up like a pop-up book and the landmarks of St Paul's Cathedral, the Houses of Parliament and Tower Bridge look toy-town tiny.
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