Amazon rumored to be opening bricks and mortar stores
Feb 03 2012: There are mumblings in the blogosphere that Amazon is to open bricks and mortar stores. Launch.it offers four possible scenarios:
The first scenario: the store could just be a showroom with display units of appliances and "geniuses" running around showing you the top 25 vacuums in...
Jan 24 2012: Simply Audiobooks launched a new service today offering unlimited audio books for a $25 monthly subscription. The catch is that because the books are streamed rather than downloaded you have to be connected to the internet to listen to them; also the current selection of 11,000 books is...
Andrew Miller wins Costa Book of the Year with his 6th novel "Pure" set in 1785 Paris
Jan 24 2012: Novelist Andrew Miller has won the 2011 Costa Book of the Year, his first major literary award, for his sixth novel, Pure, set in pre-revolutionary Paris in 1785.
Tablet and e-book reader ownership nearly double over the holidays
Jan 23 2012: According to the latest Pew Survey, the share of adults in the United States who own tablet computers nearly doubled from 10% to 19% between mid-December and early January and the same surge in growth also applied to e-book readers, which also jumped from 10% to 19% over the same time...
Supreme Court upholds 1994 copyright law granting protection to foreign works, including Tolkien and Orwell
Jan 20 2012: On Wednesday, the USA Supreme Court upheld a 1994 law granting copyright protection to a large number of foreign works that had been freely available in the public domain including books by J.R.R. Tolkien and George Orwell.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Google had hoped that...
Jan 20 2012: It looks like Amazon will be moving a data center into Australia soon to take advantage of the increasing number of Australians who buy from stores outside Australia so as to save money.
It is likely that Amazon will also enter the Indian market with its Amazon Marketplace platform, "in...
Salman Rushdie withdraws from literary festival due to assassination threats
Jan 20 2012: Salman Rushdie has confirmed that he will not attend the Jaipur Literary Festival (India's largest literary festival) in person, saying that intelligence sources have warned of a planned assassination attempt.
The development comes after vice-chancellor of the Darul Uloom Deoband...
Jan 19 2012: Apple have announced a major new move to "reinvent textbooks" through the introduction of three new or updated tools, including "an entirely new kind of textbook that's dynamic, engaging and truly...
Jan 14 2012: Gene Wolfe has been awarded the first Fuller Award. The award is for a lifetime contribution to literature and is presented by the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. Wolfe, whose latest book Home Fires is just out in paperback, will be presented with the award on March 17th at an evening event...
Jan 05 2012: Barnes & Noble has announced that they are considering spinning off its Nook business into its own company. he disclosure came as part of B&N’s holiday sales report that showed large increases in sales of Nook devices, but also revealed that earnings, hurt by lower than expected sales of the Nook...
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Amazon rumored to be opening bricks and mortar stores(Feb 03 2012) There are mumblings in the blogosphere that Amazon is to open bricks and mortar stores. Launch.it offers four possible scenarios:
B&N "declares war" on Amazon, stating that it will not stock Amazon titles in its stores(Jan 31 2012) Barnes & Noble has decided not to stock books published by Amazon in their physical stores.
According to Jaime Carey, B&N's Chief Merchandising...
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