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Mar 08 2012: The Wall Street Journal reports that the Justice Department has warned Apple and Penguin, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster that it plans to sue them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of electronic books by adopting the agency ...
Mar 06 2012: A plan to digitize half a million "unavailable" books from the 20th century is drawing fire from authors - 900 of whom have signed a petition saying the scheme is an abuse of their intellectual property rights. Authors have the option to opt out of the program within ...
Mar 02 2012: The Utah House of Representatives passed legislation yesterday by a 69-0 vote "that would require remote retailers with nexus in Utah via distribution centers or subsidiaries to collect and remit sales tax for purchases made by state residents." The bill now moves to ...
Feb 24 2012: After a two-week pause in adding new members, on Thursday evening Google e-mailed a number of affiliates that sell Google eBooks, including independent booksellers, and announced that they are being dropped from the program.
Update: 2/29/2012: Google announced that ...
Feb 23 2012: Little, Brown has world English rights to the first novel for adults by JK Rowling, the company announced Thursday morning. All details, including title, publication date and topic will be announced later this year.
In the release, Rowling says, "Although I’ve ...
Feb 22 2012: Legendary publisher Barney Rosset has died aged 89. Rosset bought Grove Press in the 1950s, and championed the works of countless writers, including: Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Jack Kerouac, Malcolm X, Pablo Neruda, Kenzaburo Oe, Kathy Acker, and David Mamet.
To ...
Feb 22 2012: Amazon has removed all ebooks published by Independent Publishers Group (IPG). IPG is the second-largest independent book distributor in the USA representing over 700 publishers. IPG President Mark Suchomel said in an email alert yesterday: "I am disappointed to report...
Feb 17 2012: Anthony Shadid, a foreign correspondent and author who wrote dispatches from the Middle East for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The Associated Press for almost two decades, died in Syria on Thursday, apparently of an asthma attack.
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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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