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UK report finds that changing copyright laws could stifle creative sector worth 8% of GDP

Mar 11 2011: Changing copyright laws in the UK could strike a blow to investment in literature, a report has found....

"Therefore changing intellectual property regulations to 'benefit' companies such as Google, which reproduces content 'at the expense of people who create ...

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Winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards

Mar 11 2011: The winners of this year's National Book Critics Circle Awards have been announced:

• NBCC Award for Fiction:
  A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
  
  
• NBCC Award for Nonfiction:
  The Warmth of Other Suns by ...

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David S. Broder dies aged 81

Mar 09 2011: Author and political columnist David S. Broder, who won a Pulitzer for his coverage of Watergate, has died aged 81-years-old.

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Knopf editor to achieve lifetime achievement award

Mar 09 2011: Sonny Mehta, editor-in-chief of Alfred A. Knopf and chairman of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, will be given the Lifetime Achievement Award in International Publishing by the London Book Fair next month.

One of his authors, Kazuo Ishiguro, comments: "I know I ...

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Steven Kroll, author of 90+ children's books, dies aged 69

Mar 09 2011: Publishers Lunch reports that children's author Steven Kroll died Wednesday night at the age of 69. He was the author of more than ninety picture books, chapter books, and young adult novels, with three new titles set to be released later this year.

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Blogger proposes strike against Huffington Post

Mar 03 2011: Following The Huffington Post's purchase by AOL for $315m, Visual Art Source publisher Bill Lasarow has stopped posting his publication's content on The Huffington Post and called for a strike by other writers contributing articles for free until The Huff Post ...

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Random House adopts agency model for ebook sales

Mar 01 2011: Effective today, Random House is adopting the agency model for e-book sales in the U.S., joining the other large publishers in setting the retail prices for its e-books and giving a commission to retailers. The American Booksellers Association welcomed Random House's ...

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HarperCollins Puts 26 Loan Cap on Ebook Circulations

Feb 27 2011: In the first significant revision to lending terms for ebook circulation, HarperCollins has announced that new titles licensed from library ebook vendors will be able to circulate only 26 times before the license expires.... meanwhile, two of the big six publishers in ...

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