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Hachette, HarperCollins and S&S settle price-fixing allegations.
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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...
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Will 2013 be the year of the glowing Kindle?
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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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Harper Lee and Aldous Huxley once again among most challenged titles in US libraries
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Apr 09 2012: The American Library Association has released its list of the Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2011. The Top Ten list includes Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Hunger Games by Suzanne...
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One-fifth of Americans read an ebook in 2011
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Apr 06 2012: According to the Pew Research Center Study one in five American adults read an e-book in 2011 and 43% read at least one long-form digital text (e.g. an ebook or magazine). 88% of those who read an e-book during the past year also read a printed book.
Among the 14% of Americans who read...
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UK tax authorities investigate Amazon due to $5bn in sales but no corporation tax paid
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Apr 06 2012: Amazon.co.uk, Britain's biggest online retailer (responsible for one in every four books sold in the UK, to name just one product category in its enormous repertoire), is being investigated by British tax authorities as it generated sales of more than $5bn in the UK in 2011 alone, but has paid no...
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Google to end its ebooks reseller program worldwide
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Apr 05 2012: Google has informed the American Booksellers Association and Powell's Books that it will end its Google eBooks reseller program worldwide. A few weeks ago it had seemed as if independent booksellers were getting a reprieve when Google reinstated some affiliate stores that had low sales. But in yet...
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New Worldreader app for 'dumb phones' hopes to bring ebooks to millions in the developing world
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Apr 03 2012: US non-profit literacy agency Worldreader has beta-launched an app for non-smartphones in order to distribute free e-books into sub-Saharan Africa and other parts of the developing world.
The Worldreader app uses cloud-based data compression technology to enable any Java-enabled...
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States increasingly fight back against Amazon tax deals as study reveals states have lost $52 billion in untaxed internet purchases in 6 years
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Apr 03 2012: US states have lost more than $52 billion during the past six years due to untaxed Internet purchases, according to a University of Tennessee study. Facing massive budget deficits that threaten further cuts to schools and social services, an ever-growing chorus of lawmakers has called for an end...
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Amazon turns the screws on publishers demanding ever deeper discounts
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Apr 02 2012: The bad news came to McFarland & Co. in an email from Amazon. Starting Jan. 1, 2012 - then only 19 days away - Amazon would buy the publisher's books at 45 percent off the cover price, roughly double its current price break.
For McFarland, an independent publisher of scholarly books...
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E-books settlement could be reached within a couple of weeks
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Apr 02 2012: According to Reuters, The Justice Department could reach a settlement in the next few weeks with Apple Inc and some of the major publishers accused of colluding to push up electronic book prices.
While negotiations are still fluid, the settlement is expected to eliminate Apple's...
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"Cooking with Poo" wins prize for oddest book title; "Memoirs of a Japanese Chicken Sexer" comes in 2nd
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Mar 30 2012: A Thai cookbook has won this year's Diagram Prize for oddest book title of the year. Cooking With Poo is written by Bangkok chef Saiyuud Diwong whose nickname is Poo - which is Thai for "crab". Diwong runs a cookery school for locals and tourists in the city's largest slum, alongside the...
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Poet Adrienne Rich dies aged 82
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Mar 29 2012: Poet Adrienne Rich has died aged 82. In its obituary, The New York Times describes Rich as "a poet of towering reputation and towering rage, whose work - distinguished by an unswerving progressive vision and a dazzling, empathic ferocity - brought the oppression of women and lesbians to the...
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