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JK Rowling's first adult novel is coming
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Feb 23 2012: Little, Brown has world English rights to the first novel for adults by JK Rowling, the company announced Thursday morning. All details, including title, publication date and topic will be announced later this year.
In the release, Rowling says, "Although I’ve enjoyed writing it every...
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Legendary publisher Barney Rosset dies aged 89
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Feb 22 2012: Legendary publisher Barney Rosset has died aged 89. Rosset bought Grove Press in the 1950s, and championed the works of countless writers, including: Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Jack Kerouac, Malcolm X, Pablo Neruda, Kenzaburo Oe, Kathy Acker, and David Mamet.
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Amazon removes Kindle versions of IPG books from sale
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Feb 22 2012: Amazon has removed all ebooks published by Independent Publishers Group (IPG). IPG is the second-largest independent book distributor in the USA representing over 700 publishers. IPG President Mark Suchomel said in an email alert yesterday: "I am disappointed to report that Amazon.com has failed...
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Journalist and author Anthony Shadid dies in Syria
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Feb 17 2012: Anthony Shadid, a foreign correspondent and author who wrote dispatches from the Middle East for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The Associated Press for almost two decades, died in Syria on Thursday, apparently of an asthma attack.
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Jeffrey Zaslow, author of Gabby, Highest Duty and The Last Lecture dies aged 53
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Feb 13 2012: Author Jeffrey Zaslow died in a car accident last week at the age of 53. He was the author of The Girls From Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship, The Magic Room: A Story About The Love We Wish For Our Daughters and co-author of The Last Lecture (with Randy...
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Penguin withdraws new ebooks from Overdrive, looks for new library partners
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Feb 10 2012: Penguin Group USA have announced that with immediate effect it "will no longer offer additional copies of ebooks and audiobooks for purchase via Overdrive" and is severing their ongoing relationship with the vendor. Libraries will continue to have access to titles they have already...
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Amazon to open bricks and mortar store in Seattle
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Feb 07 2012: Last week, the word in the blogosphere was that Amazon was considering opening a bricks-and-mortar store. Over the weekend goodereader.com added substance to the rumors saying, "Amazon sources close to the situation have told us that the company is planning on rolling out a retail store in Seattle...
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Arizona bills Amazon for $53 million in uncollected sales tax
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Feb 06 2012: The ongoing sales tax battle between many US states and large online retailers, most notably Amazon, continues with a thrust from Arizona which, last week, billed Amazon $53 million for uncollected sales taxes.
The Tucson Citizen reported that in a filing last week with the Securities...
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Amazon rumored to be opening bricks and mortar stores
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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...
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B&N "declares war" on Amazon, stating that it will not stock Amazon titles in its stores
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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 Officer in an email to Bloomberg Businessweek senior reporter Brad Stone:
"Barnes & Noble has made a decision not to stock Amazon...
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Audiobooks introduce $25 unlimited monthly subscription.
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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...
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Andrew Miller wins Costa Book of the Year with his 6th novel "Pure" set in 1785 Paris
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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.
Pure is published in the UK by Sceptre, the...
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