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Publishers remain cool to Borders deal

Jan 27 2011: Unless publishers undergo a change of heart, it appears likely that many will reject Borders' proposal to exchange missed payments for notes...It is unclear what Borders' next step will be if publishers decide not to go along with their offer.

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TED, Amazon to Launch TEDBooks

Jan 26 2011: TED, the renowned nonprofit conference and foundation that provides a platform to important writers, thinkers, and artists to offer “ideas worth spreading,” is launching TEDBooks, a line of short digital books, in a partnership with Amazon.com. The e-books will be short...

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BookSwim plans e-book lending site

Jan 21 2011: With major publishers so far reticent to sanction a rental market for e-books, BookSwim.com, the New Jersey-based print-book rental company billed as "the Netflix of books," told PW it plans to launch a new site called eBookToss.com, a virtual "e-book swap" that will ...

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Reynolds Price, a literary voice of the South, dies at 77

Jan 21 2011: Reynolds Price, whose novels and stories about ordinary people in rural North Carolina struggling to find their place in the world established him as one of the most important voices in modern Southern fiction, died on Thursday in Durham, N.C. He was 77.

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Ian McEwan wins Israel's highest literary honor

Jan 19 2011: Ian McEwan has been awarded the $10,000 Jerusalem Prize. Israel's highest literary honor for foreign writers is given biennially to an author whose work best expresses and promotes the idea of "freedom of the individual in society."

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Amazon set to have sold almost 20 million Kindles by end of 2011

Jan 19 2011: Amazon sold about 7.1 million Kindle e-readers last year, Barclays analyst Doug Anmuth estimates today in a note, and will sell 12.3 million this year. ("Though our numbers may still be conservative.")

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Mystery writer Joe Gores dies at 79

Jan 18 2011: Joe Gores, a former San Francisco private investigator who became a prize-winning author of hardboiled mysteries such as "Hammett," "Come Morning" and "Spade & Archer," (the first authorized spin off of "The Maltese Falcon") has died. He was 79.

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Publishers consider Border's future

Jan 14 2011: Following yesterday's meeting between publishers and Borders, publishers are considering the numbers presented to them in order to decide whether it is best to accept Borders' offer of a three year note in lieu of current payments due, or to see the retailer declare ...

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