(1) Canal Livre, which he started in the 1980s, was extremely popular among Manaus' 1.7 million residents before going off air last year as police investigated.

(2) "Le Petit Livre Bleu" focuses specifically on the man behind the cryptic cartoons, original Smurf author Pierre Culliford, aka Peyo.

(3) His extreme position caused an outcry, and some of the contributors to Le Livre Noir dissociated themselves from his preface.

(4) Making a return will be Charles Booth-Clibborn's Paragon Press which publishes limited edition livres d'artiste.

(5) In a 2008 speech at Manaus's local parliament, Souza boasted that Canal Livre enjoyed complete editorial freedom and was conducted with "journalistic responsibility".

(6) Arnaud Nourry, the CEO of the world's second largest book publisher, Hachette Livre, says that the current pricing trends for eBooks may soon kill the hardcover book as we know it.

(7) The last time a paper tried to fire large numbers of Syndicat du Livre workers was in 1975, whenMediapart, a morning daily, announced 200 layoffs.

(8) "Manaus can no longer live with this wave of crime, " Souza, 50, frequently told the audience of his daily show Canal Livre. "Nowadays everyone is killing."

(9) In situ hybridization was performed to identify special expression of differentially expressed genes in livre tumor and non tumor tissues.