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May 31 2013: The cheerful mood of American Bookseller Association members at Book Expo America reflected the positive feeling among independent booksellers in general. The majority of them have seen business improve in the last year and a half and feel that, while the path is not ...
May 24 2013: As expected, News Corp has announced it will officially split its publishing and entertainment businesses on 28 June.
Its board approved the separation into two firms, which will both be headed by the current chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch.
The ...
May 23 2013: Borders owes nothing to holders of roughly $210.5 million of gift cards that had not been used by the time the bookstore chain shut down, a Manhattan federal judge ruled on Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter said it would be unfair to other creditors of the...
May 20 2013: Amazon will be called back to give further evidence to members of the British Parliament "to clarify how its activities in the U.K. justify its low corporate income tax bill," Reuters reported, noting that during the past six years, Amazon has paid approximately $9 ...
May 16 2013: In 2012, trade book sales (i.e. non academic book sales) rose 6.9%, to $15.049 billion, and e-book sales continued to grow, although the rate of growth slowed.
After several years of triple-digit growth, e-book sales grew 43% in 2012, representing 457 million e-books...
May 15 2013: In their filings ahead of the June 3 trial date, the Justice Department and Apple present very different outlines of events that led to the adoption of the agency model for e-books in 2010 by five of the six major U.S. publishers (who have all already settled with the ...
May 14 2013: The German union Verdi has called a strike today at two Amazon facilities in Germany--in Leipzig and Bad Hersfeld--that is expected to last from 6 a.m. until "the end of the late shift." In Leipzig, the union is calling for starting pay of 10.66 euros ($13.84) an hour, ...
May 14 2013: The Web site Insider Monkey posted a story Monday, quoting a "highly placed source inside Microsoft" saying that the company has no plans to buy Barnes & Noble’s Nook Media group. Last week, citing documents it said it had seen, TechCrunch reported that Microsoft was ...
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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