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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 ...
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...
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, ...
Jun 22 2012: While three-quarters of USA public libraries now offer e-book lending services, a new survey shows that while 58% of respondents have a library card and 69% consider the library important to them and their family only 12% had borrowed an e-book from a library during the...
Jun 21 2012: In the past year, Penguin Group USA has slowly pulled away from the library e-book market. Now it is tiptoeing back in.
The publisher is working with New York City libraries and 3M on a pilot program that will make Penguin e-books available in city libraries ...
Jun 18 2012: USA total net book sales fell 7% in March compared with the same time last year. For the year to date, net book sales have risen 6.2%. Children's/YA e-books kept up its strong rate of growth, rising 174%
Jun 13 2012: The U.S. State Department is considering a no-bid, $16.5 million contract with Amazon to provide Kindle Touches for its overseas language-education programs.
In a document justifying the no-bid contract, the State Department says it’s identified "the Amazon Kindle ...
Jun 12 2012: Saiinsbury's, Britain's third largest supermarket group now owns 64% stake of Anobii, which has over 600,000 users worldwide and a library of 60,000 ebooks. Sainsbury's purchase of HMV Group's shareholding in Anobii for a nominal one English pound (about $1.60)
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
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