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Sep 12 2011: The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon is talking with book publishers about launching a Netflix type service for digital books, in which customers would pay an annual fee to access a library of content. Publishers that spoke with WSJ are apparently unenthusiastic ...
Sep 12 2011: The California Senate and Assembly have overwhelmingly passed a compromise bill that delays California's effort to force online retailers such as Amazon.com to collect the state's sales taxes while retailers lobby Congress for national rules governing online sales taxes...
Sep 08 2011: Amazon.com cut a tentative deal with legislative leaders Wednesday night that would allow it to postpone collecting sales taxes from Californians for another year.
The company in turn would drop its battle to overturn the state's new law that required it and many ...
Sep 08 2011: Michael Stern Hart, founder and head of Project Gutenberg, who many consider invented the ebook, died this week aged 64.
On July 4 1971, having been granted access to significant computing power at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he was inspired to ...
Sep 07 2011: Flipkart is now India's biggest online bookseller, with over 10 million titles distributed from warehouses in five cities. It has branched from books into mobile phones, appliances, gaming consoles, music and movies, and now sells 10 products a minute. All this from a ...
Sep 07 2011: The Booker Prize shortlist has been announced with the usual mix of criticism and praise from various quarters. Indeed, the controversy over each year's list is as much a tradition as the Prize itself.
Sep 06 2011: Borders is back in court to request a bonus package for management, which totals $1.75 million. The severance provides for $125,000 for fifteen management employees.... While Borders is looking to reward management for its tireless efforts, rank-and-file Borders ...
Sep 02 2011: A recent Simba Information survey of more than 110 bookstores across the country reports that 38% had noticed their former regular customers who now own an ereader, "often or very often" visit to browse the shelves without buying anything, while 43% said non-regular ...
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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