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Mass market paperback sales down, but far from out

Nov 03 2014: When sales of e-books in the USA doubled in 2011 compared with 2010, many in the publishing industry predicted the quick demise of mass market paperbacks*. The predictions looked to be on track when the format sold half as much in 2013 as in 2010. But in 2014 there are ...

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Mark your calendars for Small Business Saturday and Indies First Day - November 29, just after Thanksgiving.

Oct 30 2014: Mark your calendars for Small Business Saturday and Indies First Day - November 29, just after Thanksgiving. Many authors will be volunteering at their favorite independent bookstores. Contact your local store for details or check out the map that has been started at ...

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Amazon sales rose 20% in 3rd qtr but lost $544m

Oct 24 2014: Amazon's release of its third quarter financial results Thursday afternoon gave analysts and investors lots to think about as the giant e-tailer posted a large quarterly loss, forecast the possibility of a loss for the fourth quarter and had slowing growth in its media ...

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National Book Awards Shortlist for Nonfiction Announced

Oct 15 2014: The National Book Awards have announced their nonfiction shortlist consisting of five titles:

Roz Chast, Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Bloomsbury)
Anand Gopal, No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan ...

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National Book Award Fiction Shortlist Announced

Oct 15 2014: The National Book Awards have announced their fiction shortlist

• Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press/ Grove/Atlantic)
• Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See (Scribner/ Simon & Schuster)
• Phil Klay, ...

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National Book Foundation Announces YA Shortlist

Oct 15 2014: The National Book Award shortlist for this year's Young People's Literature category is:

Threatened by Eliot Schrefer (Scholastic)
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin (Roaring Brook/Macmillan)
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Australian Author Wins Man Booker Prize

Oct 14 2014: Australian author Richard Flanagan has won the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for his wartime novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Flanagan's novel is set during the construction of the Thailand-Burma Death Railway in World War Two. This was the first year that the Man ...

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Amazon to open store near Empire State Building in New York, also in San Francisco and Sacramento

Oct 13 2014: Amazon will soon open small warehouse/stores in Manhattan, San Francisco and Sacramento.

According to the Wall Street Journal, which reported on the New York store, apparently, the stores will function as "mini warehouse, with limited inventory for same-day delivery...

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