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Audiobooks introduce $25 unlimited monthly subscription.

Jan 24 2012: Simply Audiobooks launched a new service today offering unlimited audio books for a $25 monthly subscription. The catch is that because the books are streamed rather than downloaded you have to be connected to the internet to listen to them; also the current selection ...

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Andrew Miller wins Costa Book of the Year with his 6th novel "Pure" set in 1785 Paris

Jan 24 2012: Novelist Andrew Miller has won the 2011 Costa Book of the Year, his first major literary award, for his sixth novel, Pure, set in pre-revolutionary Paris in 1785.

Pure is published in the UK by Sceptre, the literary imprint of Hodder and Stoughton. It would seem that...

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Dead End in Norvelt wins prestigious Newbery Medal

Jan 23 2012: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos has won the John Newbery Medal at the American Library Association’s annual youth media awards.

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Tablet and e-book reader ownership nearly double over the holidays

Jan 23 2012: According to the latest Pew Survey, the share of adults in the United States who own tablet computers nearly doubled from 10% to 19% between mid-December and early January and the same surge in growth also applied to e-book readers, which also jumped from 10% to 19% ...

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Supreme Court upholds 1994 copyright law granting protection to foreign works, including Tolkien and Orwell

Jan 20 2012: On Wednesday, the USA Supreme Court upheld a 1994 law granting copyright protection to a large number of foreign works that had been freely available in the public domain including books by J.R.R. Tolkien and George Orwell.

According to The Wall Street Journal, ...

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Amazon moving into Australia and India

Jan 20 2012: It looks like Amazon will be moving a data center into Australia soon to take advantage of the increasing number of Australians who buy from stores outside Australia so as to save money.

It is likely that Amazon will also enter the Indian market with its Amazon ...

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Salman Rushdie withdraws from literary festival due to assassination threats

Jan 20 2012: Salman Rushdie has confirmed that he will not attend the Jaipur Literary Festival (India's largest literary festival) in person, saying that intelligence sources have warned of a planned assassination attempt.

The development comes after vice-chancellor of the Darul...

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Apple reinvents textbooks

Jan 19 2012: Apple have announced a major new move to "reinvent textbooks" through the introduction of three new or updated tools, including "an entirely new kind of textbook that's dynamic, engaging and truly interactive."

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