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Feb 02 2010: Amazon has still not resumed selling books published by Macmillan (including Picador, Holt and St Martins) and, for the second day in a row, Amazon's stock price slipped.
Earlier today, the Authors Guild defended Macmillan and criticized Amazon's "bullying tactics"...
Jan 30 2010: The e-book price wars have broken out. Amazon have removed all Macmillan books from sale (which include Tor, St. Martin’s Press, Picador, Holt and many others) and, apparently have also removed all the publisher's books from people's wish lists and removed other content...
Jan 29 2010: J. D. Salinger, who was thought at one time to be the most important American writer to emerge since World War II but who then turned his back on success and adulation, becoming the Garbo of letters, famous for not wanting to be famous, died on Wednesday at his home in ...
Jan 28 2010: Amazon have been noticeably reticent in providing sales figures for their Kindle e-reader. The nearest to a concrete figure came in today's announcement of their fourth quarter sales results, in which founder and CEO Jeff Bezos states that, "Millions of people now own ...
Jan 28 2010: Publishers are looking on Apple's iPad as a chance to reset the downward spiral in e-book prices. Yesterday, when Steve Jobs announced the new iPad he also confirmed that five of the six largest publishers have signed on to provide e-book content for the new tablet. ...
Jan 28 2010: Louis Auchincloss, a Wall Street lawyer from a prominent old New York family who became a durable and prolific chronicler of Manhattan's old - money elite, died on Tuesday night in Manhattan. He was 92.
Jan 27 2010: Apple have unveiled their iPad tablet at a much lower base price point than anticipated -starting at $499, which is likely to provide serious competition to ereaders such as the Kindle and Nook and to smaller computers known as netbooks. A range of industry responses...
Jan 27 2010: Christopher Reid has won the 2009 Costa Book of the Year Award for his collection of poems entitled A Scattering (Arete), beating off competition from front runner Colm Toibin.
Last month Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín won the Costa Novel of the Year award. Other category ...
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