-
Access our Top 20
Books of 2024!
Oct 12 2011: Connecticut has joined many other cash-strapped states across the country in demanding that Amazon collect sales tax on internet purchases made by residents of the state. According to the General Assembly's Office of Fiscal Analysis, the state could expect up to $9.4 ...
Oct 12 2011: According to Shelf Awareness's comprehensive report of the first day of talks at the Frankfurt Book Fair yesterday, the news is all about ebooks, with many book people outside the U.S. wanted to learn about the American experience, and talk about how the digital wave in...
Oct 11 2011: A new initiative by OverDrive (the company behind most ebook lending in libraries) could turn libraries into virtual ebookstores. The idea is that if a patron searches for an ebook in one of OverDrive's 15,000 member libraries and the book is not available, they would ...
Oct 09 2011: Fox has preemptively bought Magicians, a drama series adaptation of Lev Grossman’s popular fantasy novel, with a script commitment plus penalty.
Oct 09 2011: The Tennessee government has reached a deal with Amazon that will require the online retailer to start collecting Tennessee sales tax in 2014 in exchange for 2,000 full-time jobs at new distribution centers.
Oct 06 2011: Walter Isaacson's forthcoming biography of Steve Jobs has been moved up to October 24. The 656-page book will include an interview Isaacson conducted with Jobs four weeks ago.
Oct 06 2011: Tomas Tranströmer, called "Sweden's most famous poet," has won the 104th Nobel Prize for Literature. Tranströmer, born in Stockholm in 1931, has been translated into over 50 languages.
A number of his books have been released in the U.S. including The Sorrow Gondola,...
Oct 05 2011: Steve Jobs, the visionary who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world's leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone, died today aged 56.
.png)
To win without risk is to triumph without glory
Click Here to find out who said this, as well as discovering other famous literary quotes!
Your guide toexceptional books
BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
