Pushing back against 'Showrooming', Target will no longer stock Kindles
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...
Toni Morrison to be awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
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...
Barnes & Noble and Microsoft form partnership in new B&N subsidiary combining digital business and B&N College
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...
Tor publisher announces all ebooks will be DRM free by July - enabling books to be transferred between devices
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...
'Three Cups of Tea' author, Greg Mortenson, and publisher seek dismissal of class action suit
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.
Apple wants to go to trial to defend itself against price-fixing allegations
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...
Apple calls charges of collusion "simply not true"
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...
"The Casual Vacancy" by J.K. Rowling to published late September 2012
Apr 12 2012: Little, Brown UK has announced the title and publication date of JK Rowling's first novel for adults. The Casual Vacancy, described as a "blackly comic" novel centered around a small town in which everyone is at war with each other that's exacerbated by the unexpected death of a parish...
Hachette, HarperCollins and S&S settle price-fixing allegations.
Apr 11 2012: Three publishers—Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster—have agreed to a proposed settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice to settle federal claims of price fixing regarding e-books. Publishers Weekly reported today on the broad strokes of the deal, and what it means for the settling...
Apr 10 2012: Back in 2010 Amazon quietly booked a Swedish company that is said to be the world leaders in "light-guide" technology. It is this technology that Techcrunch predicts will be behind a new generation of glowing Kindles next...
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Stranger than fiction, blending tragedy and farce, How to Create the Perfect Wife is an engrossing tale of the radicalism, and deep contradictions, at the heart of the Enlightenment.
Z, the novel about the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is at points charming and; like another reviewer, I kept thinking of the movie, "Midnight...
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Although heavy on the scientific details, which slowed down the story for me (OK, I admit, I was one of those liberal arts majors who skipped out on...
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U.S. ebook sales up in 2012, but rate of growth is slowing(May 16 2013) In 2012, trade book sales (i.e. non academic book sales) rose 6.9%, to $15.049 billion, and e-book sales continued to grow, although the rate of growth...
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