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Nov 16 2011: Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones has won the National Book Award for fiction. Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve won for nonfiction. The poetry prize went to Nikki Finney's Head Off & Split and Thanhhai Lai's Inside Out & Back Again won for young people's literature.
Nov 15 2011: In a memo posted on its Web site Monday afternoon, the Authors Guild outlined its concerns with Amazon’s Kindle Online Lending Library, saying that it is troubled by both Amazon taking some titles from publishers without their permission as well as by publishers who ...
Nov 10 2011: A bipartisan group of 10 U.S. senators has introduced the Marketplace Fairness Act, which would grant states the authority to compel online retailers to collect sales taxes. The proposed legislation "seeks to both ensure that online retailers are collecting taxes while ...
Nov 09 2011: As more information has come to light about the Lending Library program Amazon launched last week, the tenor in the industry has shifted from puzzlement to anger. Although Amazon initially said it reached a "variety of terms" with publishers to include their titles in ...
Nov 07 2011: Concern is growing in the US over the launch of Amazon's Kindle lending initiative. Amazon launched the new service last week aimed at Kindle-owning Prime users, but publishers have expressed concern over titles appearing in the program without agreement, while agents ...
Nov 07 2011: Alan Hollinghurst, whose recently published book, The Stranger's Child, was controversially omitted from this year's Man Booker shortlist, has been lauded at last Friday's Galaxy National Book Awards, winning the Author of the Year Award.
Emma Donoghue's Room won ...
Nov 03 2011: Amazon.com has launched the Kindle Owners' Lending Library for e-books for customers who have an Amazon Prime membership (costing $79 a year). Kindle owners can borrow one book a month, with about 5000 titles to choose from. The program only works on Kindles, not ...
Nov 02 2011: John Wiley and Sons, one of the world’s largest book publishers, has sued 27 BitTorrent users at a federal court in New York claiming that the defendants have shared copies of its "For Dummies" books without permission. Although over 200,000 people have been sued in the...
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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