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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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Hunger Games presells over 1 million tickets ahead of Friday opening

Mar 19 2012: The Hunger Games movie, the first in a planned trilogy based on the book trilogy of the same name by author Suzanne Collins, has already presold 1 million tickets ahead of its opening this Friday.

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French graphic mag artist Jean Giraud, known as Moebius, dies at 73

Mar 10 2012: Jean Giraud, one of France's leading comics artists, has died in Paris at the age of 73 after a long illness. He drew for more than 50 years, under various names, but was most widely known as Moebius.

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