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E-books settlement could be reached within a couple of weeks

Apr 02 2012: According to Reuters, The Justice Department could reach a settlement in the next few weeks with Apple Inc and some of the major publishers accused of colluding to push up electronic book prices.

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"Cooking with Poo" wins prize for oddest book title; "Memoirs of a Japanese Chicken Sexer" comes in 2nd

Mar 30 2012: A Thai cookbook has won this year's Diagram Prize for oddest book title of the year. Cooking With Poo is written by Bangkok chef Saiyuud Diwong whose nickname is Poo - which is Thai for "crab". Diwong runs a cookery school for locals and tourists in the city's largest ...

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Poet Adrienne Rich dies aged 82

Mar 29 2012: Poet Adrienne Rich has died aged 82. In its obituary, The New York Times describes Rich as "a poet of towering reputation and towering rage, whose work - distinguished by an unswerving progressive vision and a dazzling, empathic ferocity - brought the oppression of ...

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USA book sales report 11.5% growth in Jan, gains in both print and digital

Mar 29 2012: The Association of American Publishers reports a gain in net sales of 11.5% in January 2012 versus the previous year. The AAP said that publishers attributed "the near-total across-the-board percentage increases in both print and digital formats to general economic ...

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Harry Potter ebooks now available

Mar 27 2012: After many delays, ebook editions of JK Rowling's Harry Potter series are now available for sale from Pottermore. The first three books in the series are priced at US$7.99 and the final four books are US$9.99. The ebooks are not currently available for direct transfer ...

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Author Chuck Palahniuk survives freak car accident

Mar 26 2012: Last Friday, Chuck Palahniuk was hit by a semi trailer while sitting in his car parked in a driveway off Washington state highway. Both car and trailer were written off but the drivers were uninjured, except for Palahniuk who reported a stiff neck.

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11lbs of marijuana intercepted on its way to fictitious St Martin's Press employee

Mar 21 2012: Someone mailed more than eleven pounds of marijuana to the offices of St. Martin's Press at the Flatiron Building in Manhattan today. Bound for an apparently fictitious employee named Karen Wright, the shipments had a potential street value of $70,000.

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UK Publishers Association calls for abolition of 20% VAT on e-books to align with print

Mar 21 2012: The Publishers Association in the UK is calling for the government to abolish the 20% VAT rate on e-books, putting pressure on chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne ahead of the Budget today to match the zero-rating on print books for digital editions.

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