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 ...
Sep 02 2011: Amazon is offering to bring thousands of jobs to California as it tries to back away from a ballot-box confrontation over the state's new Internet sales tax law. It's a strategy the company has used in other states as it tries to squash a growing movement toward taxing ...
Aug 31 2011: Sony has confirmed that the new Sony Reader, the PRS-T1 based on the latest generation Pearl E-ink screen, will launch in October 2011 with a retail price of $149 in the USA and €165 in Europe.
Aug 26 2011: Amazon has so far contributed more than $5 million to the More Jobs Not Taxes campaign committee it set up in July (and is currently the sole contributor to). The committee's purpose is to overturn a California law requiring online retailers to collect sales taxes on ...
Aug 26 2011: Barbara Drummond Mead, president of Reading Group Choices (readinggroupchoices.com), died on Tuesday. She was 51.
Mead worked as a bookseller and event organizer at McIntyre's Books, Pittsboro, N.C., and Covered Treasures Bookstore, Monument, Colo., before buying ...
Aug 24 2011: Hachette Book Group appear to be reconsidering their decision not to allow their new books to be offered in ebook format through libraries. If they go ahead this will reverse the previous decision that has kept Hachette's frontlist ebook titles out of libraries since ...
Aug 23 2011: Having failed to find a buyer, The Travel Bookshop in West London, which was made famous by the Hugh Grant film "Notting Hill", is closing down in two weeks.
Aug 22 2011: During the second quarter of 2011, Amazon spent $450,000 lobbying the federal government on issues that included online sales tax rules, transportation safety, data protection and privacy, and patent reform rules. Amazon spent $500,000 for the same period last year and ...
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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