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OverDrive WIN could turn libraries into virtual ebookstores

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 ...

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Lev Grossman's 'The Magicians' to be serialized

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.

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Amazon & Tennesse reach agreement on sales tax

Oct 09 2011: The Tennessee government has reached a deal with Amazon that will require the online retailer to start collecting Tennessee sales tax in 2014 in exchange for 2,000 full-time jobs at new distribution centers.

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Walter Isaacson bio of Steve Job publishing soon

Oct 06 2011: Walter Isaacson's forthcoming biography of Steve Jobs has been moved up to October 24. The 656-page book will include an interview Isaacson conducted with Jobs four weeks ago.

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Nobel Prize Goes to Transtromer

Oct 06 2011: Tomas Tranströmer, called "Sweden's most famous poet," has won the 104th Nobel Prize for Literature. Tranströmer, born in Stockholm in 1931, has been translated into over 50 languages.

A number of his books have been released in the U.S. including The Sorrow Gondola,...

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Steve Jobs dead aged 56

Oct 05 2011: Steve Jobs, the visionary who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world's leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone, died today aged 56.

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Amazon's California affiliates invited to re-enroll

Oct 05 2011: Amazon is inviting its 10,000-plus former California affiliates to re-enroll. All CA affiliate contracts were terminated in June after the state passed an online sales tax measure.

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CA extends library privacy laws to book purchases and e-books

Oct 05 2011: California Governor Jerry Brown this week signed into law a bill that will extend privacy protections currently in place for library records to book purchases, including e-books.

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