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American Academy of Arts and Letters announces 19 winners

Mar 14 2013: The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced today the names of 19 writers who will receive its 2013 awards in literature. The awards will be presented in New York in May at the Academy's annual ceremony. The literature prizes, totaling $175,000, honor both ...

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January 2013 USA bookstore sales up 5.5% versus December

Mar 14 2013: January bookstore sales rose 5.5%, to $2.1 billion, compared to December 2012, according to preliminary estimates from the Census Bureau. Total retail sales in January rose 6.1%, to $382.4 billion, compared to the same period a year ago.

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Tan Twan Eng wins Man Asian Literary Prize for The Garden of Evening Mists

Mar 14 2013: Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng won this year's Man Asian Literary Prize for his novel The Garden of Evening Mists.

Mr. Tan, the first Malaysian national to win the $30,000 prize, beat contenders from Pakistan, Japan, and Turkey (Nobel winner Orhan Pamuk).

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New award for literary fiction: The $60,000 Folio Prize

Mar 13 2013: A long anticipated rival to the UK's Man Booker Prize is now a reality with the announcement that the Literature Prize has a sponsor, The Folio Society, and will thus be known as the Folio Prize. Literary agent Andrew Kidd conceived of the new prize in 2011 in ...

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Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly Orange Prize) longlist announced

Mar 13 2013: The longlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly Orange Prize) has been announced, including Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith, Barbara Kingsolver, Maria Semple, Gillian Flynn and fifteen others.

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More organizations rally to block Amazon from buying .book, .read etc domain names

Mar 12 2013: More organizations, including the Authors Guild and Barnes & Noble, have filed objections to Amazon's request for future domain names such as .book, .author, .read, .app and more.

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Publishers oppose Amazon's bid to buy .book domain name

Mar 08 2013: In a filing this week with ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) the Association of American Publishers came out against a bid by Amazon to buy the .book domain name for its exclusive use, saying such an application would be counter to public ...

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Law firm investigating Author Solutions and its subsidiaries including AuthorHouse, iUniverse and Xlibris

Mar 04 2013: A New York City law firm is "investigating the practices" of Author Solutions and its subsidiaries AuthorHouse, iUniverse, Trafford, Xlibris, Inkubook and Wordclay. The firm said, "Authors using Author Solutions have complained of deceptive practices, including enticing...

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