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Aug 29 2012: As had long been rumored, the American Booksellers Association (which represents nearly 2000 independent bookstores in the USA) announced today that it is partnering with Kobo to give member stores an opportunity to sell e-books and, for the first time, e-reading ...
Aug 23 2012: British author Nina Bawden, best known for the children's novel Carrie's War, died on August 22 at her home in London. She was 87.
Aug 21 2012: June bookstore sales rose 3.8%, to $1.04 billion, compared to June 2011, according to preliminary estimates from the Census Bureau. For the year to date, bookstore sales have risen 0.6%, to $6.979 billion.
Aug 16 2012: Apple has filed a new memo in its defense against the Department of Justice, stating that it will not settle with three book publishers, as has been proposed. Instead, Apple is seeking a trial.
Aug 14 2012: Helen Gurley Brown, who created the idea of a modern woman with her book "Sex and the Single Girl" and was editor in chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for three decades, has died at age 90, the Hearst Corporation said Monday.
Aug 13 2012: The well respected prize that celebrates the best of women's international fiction that has, since 1995, been known as The Orange Prize for Fiction, might well soon become the Apple Prize for Fiction - if the rumors abounding that the US technology giant is close to ...
Aug 10 2012: Humorist and essayist David Rakoff died yesterday at the age of 47 after a three year battle with cancer. A frequent contributor to This American Life, Rakoff authored the essay collections Fraud (2001) Don't Get Too Comfortable (2005) and Half-Empty (2010).
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Aug 01 2012: Gore Vidal, an eclectic author who faithfully chronicled the major shifts and upheavals in the United States in books, essays and plays, has died. He was 86.
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