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Oct 17 2011: Amazon will publish 122 books this fall in an array of genres, in both physical and e-book form. It is a striking acceleration of the retailer’s fledging publishing program that will place Amazon squarely in competition with the New York houses that are also its most ...
Oct 16 2011: The Pursued - a crime novel written in 1935 by Horatio Hornblower creator CS Forester that was thought lost - is to be published for the first time in November.
It was lost after the English author decided not to publish it so he could concentrate on a follow-up to ...
Oct 13 2011: The finalists for the 2011 National Book Awards were named yesterday by the National Book Foundation. The fiction shortlist is
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obrecht (Random House)
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka (Knopf)
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (Bloomsbury ...
Oct 13 2011: A new literary award, The Literature Prize, has been set up to "establish a clear and uncompromising standard of excellence", with the advisory board claiming that the Man Booker Prize no longer does the job.
Oct 12 2011: Connecticut has joined many other cash-strapped states across the country in demanding that Amazon collect sales tax on internet purchases made by residents of the state. According to the General Assembly's Office of Fiscal Analysis, the state could expect up to $9.4 ...
Oct 12 2011: According to Shelf Awareness's comprehensive report of the first day of talks at the Frankfurt Book Fair yesterday, the news is all about ebooks, with many book people outside the U.S. wanted to learn about the American experience, and talk about how the digital wave in...
Oct 11 2011: A new initiative by OverDrive (the company behind most ebook lending in libraries) could turn libraries into virtual ebookstores. The idea is that if a patron searches for an ebook in one of OverDrive's 15,000 member libraries and the book is not available, they would ...
Oct 09 2011: Fox has preemptively bought Magicians, a drama series adaptation of Lev Grossman’s popular fantasy novel, with a script commitment plus penalty.
L.A. Women by Ella Berman
Two ambitious writers in 1960s LA face betrayal when one writes a novel based on the other's life.
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