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Dead End in Norvelt wins prestigious Newbery Medal
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Jan 23 2012: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos has won the John Newbery Medal at the American Library Association’s annual youth media...
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Tablet and e-book reader ownership nearly double over the holidays
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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...
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Supreme Court upholds 1994 copyright law granting protection to foreign works, including Tolkien and Orwell
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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...
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Amazon moving into Australia and India
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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...
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Salman Rushdie withdraws from literary festival due to assassination threats
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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...
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Apple reinvents textbooks
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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...
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Gene Wolfe wins Fuller Award
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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...
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Barnes & Noble may spin off Nook business
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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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Tiny Sunbirds Far Away wins Costa First Novel Award
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Jan 04 2012: The category award winners for the 2011 Costa Book Awards (formerly Whitbread Awards), which honor books by writers in the U.K. and Ireland, include:
Novel: Pure by Andrew Miller
First novel: Tiny Sunbirds Far Away by Christie Watson
Biography: Now All Roads Leads to...
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Walter Dean Myers named USA's third Ambassador for Young People's Literature
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Jan 03 2012: Walter Dean Myers named today as the USA's national ambassador for young people’s literature. The third person to hold the post since it was created in 2008. Mr Myers' books chronicle the lives of many urban teenagers, especially young, poor African-Americans.
He succeeds Katherine Paterson,...
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Apple predicted to launch new self-publishing program later this month
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Jan 03 2012: Apple is going to be holding an exclusive event in New York city later this month. Some believe this will be to launch a new program for their iBooks and Publishing platform with some sources reporting that the event will announce the launch of a new digital self-publishing platform or possibly...
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How To Be A Woman wins UK Galaxy Book of the Year
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Dec 23 2011: Journalist Caitlin Moran's take on modern feminism How to Be A Woman has won the UK's Galaxy Book of the Year. Moran's book beat 10 other contenders chosen by industry experts to be crowned the overall winner by a public vote. It will be published in the USA in May...
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