Jul 03 2013: Cengage Learning, a private equity-backed education company, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday as part of an effort to shrink its $5.8 billion debt load. The company, based in Stamford, Conn., also said that it had entered into a restructuring ...
Jul 02 2013: Starting this fall, public library staff from across the country will select a monthly top-10 list of their favorite new adult releases. The volunteer program, called LibraryReads, has been in the works since 2011; librarians began discussions about creating an ...
Jul 01 2013: The merger of Penguin and Random House (except for Random House Germany) has now officially been completed. Headquartered in New York, the new company employs over 10,000 people, and publishes over 15,000 new titles annually across 250 imprints.
Jun 27 2013: The latest Pew survey indicates that while almost all Americans under age 30 are online, and they are more likely than older patrons to use libraries’ computer and internet connections; they are also still closely bound to print, with 75% of younger Americans saying ...
Jun 27 2013: Barnes & Noble plans to open five stores and close 15-20 in the current fiscal year; in the past year, B&N opened two stores and closed 18. The company also said that despite speculation to the contrary, it hasn't reduced book title inventory "substantially" in the past...
Jun 25 2013: Barnes & Noble reported significantly poorer than expected fourth quarter results: Sales of $1.28 billion were down 7.4 percent from a year ago, and the net loss doubled to $118.6 million ($2.11 per share.). A key contributor to the loss was a $133 million in inventory ...
Jun 20 2013: Alice Munro won the Trillium Book Award for "Dear Life" on Tuesday, and also announced her retirement, saying, "I'm probably not going to write anymore. And, so, it’s nice to go out with a bang...Not that I didn’t love writing, but I think you do get to a stage where ...
Jun 19 2013: With Minnesota's online sales tax law due to take effect July 1, Amazon has played a familiar card by cutting ties with 5,200 members of its Associates program in the state, the Pioneer Press reported. The online retailer has previously taken comparable action in other ...
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
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