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Project Gutenberg, the granddaddy of all digitization programs, now has 40,000 books available!

Jul 10 2012: Project Gutenberg may have long since been surpassed by the Internet Archive and Google Books, but the granddaddy of all digitization programs is still chugging along and uploading more free ebooks - now totaling 40,000.

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USA sales of "Fifty Shades of Grey" series to hit 20 million copies this week.

Jul 09 2012: The "Fifty Shades" erotic trilogy is expected to hit the 20 million-sales mark in the U.S. this week, making it one of the fastest-selling book series in recent memory.

Sales figures relate to copies of the book sold since Vintage repackaged the original self-...

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez no longer able to write due to dementia

Jul 07 2012: According to his brother Jaime García Márquez, Nobel prizewinning author Gabriel García Márquez is suffering from senile dementia. Thus it is unlikely that the 85-year-old will complete the second part of his autobiography, Living to Tell the Tale.

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Indie Publishers Back Agency Model, Criticize DoJ Deal

Jun 26 2012: Nine independent publishers have combined to file joint comments objecting to the pending settlements of the Department of Justice's lawsuit with Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster related to e-book pricing. The publishers noted that while they continue to ...

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News Corp may split HarperCollins, WSJ & Times into separate company

Jun 26 2012: News Corp is considering a division into two companies, splitting its publishing assets - including HarperCollins, the London Times and The Wall Street Journal - from its entertainment businesses, according to a report in the News Corp-owned Wall Street Journal.

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Nora Ephron dies aged 71

Jun 26 2012: The essayist, screenwriter, and filmmaker Nora Ephron has died at the age of 71. She will be remembered for her romantic comedies including Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally, and her memoirs including I Feel Bad About My Neck.

Ephron was the oldest of ...

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Anne Enright and Robert Massie win first ever Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction

Jun 25 2012: The winners of the first ever Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were announced at the American Library Association annual conference in Anaheim yesterday. The winners are The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright and Catherine The Great by Robert...

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Books-A-Million adds voice to oppose Dept. of Justice e-book price fixing deal

Jun 22 2012: Books-A-Million has joined the growing number of parties objecting to the Department of Justice’s agreement with Simon & Schuster, Hachette and HarperCollins to settle the department’s e-book price fixing lawsuit. BAM’s letter, signed by president and CEO Terry Finley, ...

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