Aug 18 2009: Reader's Digest Association Inc plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for its U.S. businesses as part of a prearranged plan with lenders to cut debt by 75 percent.
Aug 11 2009: It took an extra month for North Carolina's $19 billion state budget to win passage, but when Gov. Beverly Perdue signs the budget, North Carolina will become the third state in the U.S., to enact an e-fairness provision, which will ensure that online retailers with ...
Aug 11 2009: After the New York Times reported that the William Morris Endeavor agency would be officially advising clients to opt out of the Google settlement, the Authors Guild issued a statement of its own Monday afternoon claiming the agency was off base in its assessment and ...
Aug 11 2009: Two of the National Advertising Review Council’s investigative units plan to announce Tuesday their first decisions involving blogs. Their recommendations call for clear disclosure when a company is sponsoring a site or paying for product reviews.
Aug 10 2009: Neil Gaiman has won the Hugo Award for The Graveyard Book
The Hugo Awards, given annually since 1955, are science fiction’s most prestigious award. The Hugos are voted on by the thousands of members of the current Worldcon which is also responsible for ...
Aug 06 2009: Budd Schulberg, who wrote the award-winning screenplay for On the Waterfront and created a classic American archetype of naked ambition, Sammy Glick, in his novel What Makes Sammy Run?, died on Wednesday. He was 95.
Aug 06 2009: Philippa Gregory will serialise her latest novel on Twitter in the week preceding The White Queen's publication later this month.
Gregory has written the tweets of Elizabeth Woodville, the main protagonist of the novel. The tweets can be viewed at www.twitter.com/...
Aug 05 2009: Sony is introducing two new electronic reading devices and cut prices for new and bestselling e-books. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Reader Pocket Edition and Reader Touch Edition "will sell for $199 and $299 respectively and will go on sale at the end of ...
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