Legal dispute resolved

Legal dispute resolved
NEW YORK (AP) -- David Baldacci, author of such best sellers as "Absolute Power" and "Last Man Standing," settled a legal dispute with a publisher after complaining his name was featured too prominently on the cover of an anthology of mystery stories.
Baldacci won a rare preliminary court injunction last month to stop New Millennium Press from publishing "The Mighty Johns." A federal judge ruled consumers could mistake the book for Baldacci's next novel, writing that New Millennium "was attempting to deceive the public into buying a misrepresented book."
The book's title is the same as that of a novella Baldacci contributed. It also includes fiction by Lawrence Block, Anne Perry and Brad Meltzer.
New Millennium and Baldacci agreed the cover will be altered (Baldacci's name will appear below the title in smaller letters) and the book released (the first printing will be 100,000). New Millennium also will make a donation to "a charity of Mr. Baldacci's choosing": The Barbara Bush Literacy Foundation.
British prize for American
LONDON (AP) -- American writer Ann Patchett has won Britain's $43,500 Orange Prize for Fiction for "Bel Canto," her fourth novel.
The Orange Prize honors the best novel written by a woman and published in the United Kingdom.
Patchett, who lives in Nashville, Tenn., and also won this year's $15,000 PEN/Faulkner prize, the largest American juried award for fiction. Her novel, "Taft," won the Guggenheim Prize.
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