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Jean Craighead George, author of 100 books for young people including 'My Side of the Mountain', dies aged 92
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May 17 2012: Distinguished children’s book author and noted naturalist Jean Craighead George died on May 15. She was 92.
Best known for the Newbery-winning novel Julie of the Wolves (Harper, 1972) and the Newbery Honor title My Side of the Mountain (Dutton, 1959), George penned more...
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Mexican novelist, Carlos Fuentes, dies aged 83
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May 15 2012: Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes has passed away at the age of 83, he was the winner of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize and the Latin Literary Prize. President Felipe Calderon wrote on Twitter, "I deeply lament the death of our beloved and admired Carlos Fuentes, a universal Mexican...
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Popular authors increase output, some doubling to two books a year, to meet insatiable ebook demand
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May 14 2012: Pity the poor authors in the days of the ebook. Whereas popular authors such as Lisa Scottoline used to produce one book a year, now they are writing two; while others such as Lee Child are churning out short stories in between novels in an attempt to satisfy their fans' demands for more output,...
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Maurice Sendak dead at 83
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May 08 2012: Legendary author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, best known for Where the Wild Things Are, died in Connecticut today. He was 83.
Earlier this year, Bumble-Ardy was published, the first work in 30 years for which Sendak had produced both text and pictures. The final book...
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Pushing back against 'Showrooming', Target will no longer stock Kindles
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May 03 2012: Target plans to stop selling Amazon Kindle e-readers and tablets, and has already removed the products from its website.
"This is evidence that Target is getting more serious about Amazon as an enemy rather than a partner," said analyst Matt Nemer of Wells Fargo. "That's probably...
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Toni Morrison to be awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Apr 30 2012: Toni Morrison is one of thirteen people to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom - the USA's highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or...
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Barnes & Noble and Microsoft form partnership in new B&N subsidiary combining digital business and B&N College
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Apr 30 2012: Barnes & Noble and Microsoft have formed a partnership in a new B&N subsidiary - temporarily called Newco - that consists of B&N's digital business and B&N College. Microsoft is making a $300 million investment in Newco for a 17.6% equity stake; B&N will own the other 82.4% of the company. In...
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Tor publisher announces all ebooks will be DRM free by July - enabling books to be transferred between devices
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Apr 25 2012: Tom Doherty Associates - comprising the Tor, Forge, Orb, Starscape, and Tor Teen imprints - has announced that their entire list of ebooks will be available DRM-free "by early July." In a separate, following notice, Tor UK said that it will do the same. Digital rights management (DRM) is...
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'Three Cups of Tea' author, Greg Mortenson, and publisher seek dismissal of class action suit
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Apr 20 2012: At a federal court hearing this week, author Greg Mortenson and his publisher sought dismissal of a lawsuit that "aims to obtain class-action relief for book-buyers allegedly defrauded by purported fabrications" in Three Cups of Tea and Stones into Schools.
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Apple wants to go to trial to defend itself against price-fixing allegations
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Apr 19 2012: Apple wants to go to trial to defend itself against U.S. government allegations of colluding with publishers to fix e-book prices, Apple lawyer Daniel Floyd told U.S. District Judge Denise Cote yesterday. Reuters reported that publishers Macmillan and Penguin "took a similar stance in the first...
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Pulitzer Prizes announced. Prize for fiction not awarded as judges could not reach a majority
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Apr 17 2012: The Pulitzer Prizes have been awarded including a first win for online news network, The Huffington Post.
Other winners include:
Nonfiction: Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How The World Became Modern (Norton)
History: Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A...
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Apple calls charges of collusion "simply not true"
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Apr 13 2012: A day after the Justice Department filed suit against Apple and five publishers over the agency model for e-books, Apple called the charges of collusion "simply not true."
Quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris said, "The launch of the iBookstore in 2010...
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