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Bookstore Sales Up 3.8% in June

Aug 21 2012: June bookstore sales rose 3.8%, to $1.04 billion, compared to June 2011, according to preliminary estimates from the Census Bureau. For the year to date, bookstore sales have risen 0.6%, to $6.979 billion.

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Apple Refuses To Settle In DOJ Case

Aug 16 2012: Apple has filed a new memo in its defense against the Department of Justice, stating that it will not settle with three book publishers, as has been proposed. Instead, Apple is seeking a trial.

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Former Cosmo editor, Helen Gurley Brown, dies aged 90

Aug 14 2012: Helen Gurley Brown, who created the idea of a modern woman with her book "Sex and the Single Girl" and was editor in chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for three decades, has died at age 90, the Hearst Corporation said Monday.

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Orange Prize for Fiction might well soon be the Apple Prize

Aug 13 2012: The well respected prize that celebrates the best of women's international fiction that has, since 1995, been known as The Orange Prize for Fiction, might well soon become the Apple Prize for Fiction - if the rumors abounding that the US technology giant is close to ...

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Humorist David Rakoff dies aged 47

Aug 10 2012: Humorist and essayist David Rakoff died yesterday at the age of 47 after a three year battle with cancer. A frequent contributor to This American Life, Rakoff authored the essay collections Fraud (2001) Don't Get Too Comfortable (2005) and Half-Empty (2010).

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Gore Vidal has died, aged 86

Aug 01 2012: Gore Vidal, an eclectic author who faithfully chronicled the major shifts and upheavals in the United States in books, essays and plays, has died. He was 86.

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RIP Maeve Binchy

Jul 30 2012: Best-selling Irish author Maeve Binchy has died aged 72 after a short illness. Binchy's books have sold more than 40 million books and have been translated into 37 languages.

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Google argues that its book search passes fair use tests 'with ease'

Jul 30 2012: In its motion for Summary Judgment in the Authors Guild vs. Google, filed on July 27, Google attorneys argue that its keyword searchable index of books scanned from library shelves "passes with ease" the ultimate test of fair use, because it provides "enormous ...

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