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Jun 07 2011: Yesterday, Apple reported that about 130 million books have been downloaded from the iBookstore. This statement was followed by the announcement of Apple's iCloud, "a free new service available that will synch content on Apple devices with servers in Apple's data ...
Jun 02 2011: Earlier this week, the California State Assembly followed a number of other states in passing a bill "aimed at closing a legal loophole that allows internet retailers to avoid collecting California sales taxes on purchases made via computer.
The state and local ...
Jun 01 2011: Poets from the 205 Olympic nations are competing to be part of "Poetry Parnassus", the UK's largest ever poetry festival, which will take place from 26 June to 2 July 2012 as part of the Olympic festivities. Members of the public around the world are being asked to ...
May 31 2011: The unsecured creditors' committee in the Borders Group bankruptcy has asked the judge in the case not to accept Borders's request for a four-month extension of the mid-June deadline for filing a plan to get out of bankruptcy. The unsecured creditors' committee includes...
May 31 2011: In the ongoing saga of whether Amazon will or won't build a distribution center in South Carolina ... last week the South Carolina Senate approved a measure that will not require Amazon to collect sales taxes on purchases by state residents for five years, but the ...
May 24 2011: Amazon has hired Laurence Kirshbaum, former TimeWarner CEO, to head up its relatively new New York based publishing operation. The announcement has dampened the spirits of many publishers currently attending Book Expo America as it clearly indicates that Amazon plan on...
May 20 2011: Liberty Media has made an offer to buy Barnes and Noble for $1.02 billion. They are offering $17 a share for BN, which was 20% higher than the shares' trading level yesterday. In after-market trading, BN stock jumped up even higher than that level. Liberty Media's offer...
May 20 2011: Random House and Bloomsbury have begun "buddying" programs to support their local libraries and library authorities. Random House deputy group sales director Ed Christie, who is pioneering the scheme with Oxfordshire libraries, says, "It's our own in-house initiative, ...
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