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US State Dept likely to spend $16.5 million on Kindles

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 ...

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Sainsbury's buys 64% stake in Anobii

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)

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Google reaches agreement to scan French books

Jun 12 2012: Google reports that it has reached an agreement in France that could bring back to life thousands of out-of-print works. The French Publishers Association and the Société des Gens de Lettres, an authors’ group, dropped lawsuits in which they contended that Google's book...

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Author Barry Unsworth dies aged 81

Jun 09 2012: Author Barry Unsworth has died aged 81. Compared to authors such as William Golding and Joseph Conrad, his historical novels spanned the Ottoman, the Venetian and the British hegemony, and the middle ages to the present day. He was co-winner of the Booker prize for ...

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Natasha Trethewey to be next poet laureate

Jun 07 2012: The Library of Congress will announce today that the next USA poet laureate is Natasha Trethewey. Ms. Trethewey, 46, born in Mississippi., is the first Southerner to hold the post since Robert Penn Warren, the original laureate, and the first African-American since Rita...

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Sci-fi author Ray Bradbury dead at 91

Jun 06 2012: Ray Bradbury, author of classic books such as Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles died on Tuesday June 5th in Southern California.

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Sony sells 500,000 e-readers in Europe

May 30 2012: The Sony Reader WIFI or PRS-T1 originally went on sale in Europe back in October 2011. Since that time they have sold close to 500,000 units in the UK, France, Spain, Germany and other major markets. It is said that Sony now controls around 35% of the entire eReader ...

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Madeline Miller wins Orange Prize

May 30 2012: Madeline Miller has won the UK's 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction with her debut novel, The Song of Achilles, a story of same-sex romance set in the Greek age of heroes.

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