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Jan 21 2011: With major publishers so far reticent to sanction a rental market for e-books, BookSwim.com, the New Jersey-based print-book rental company billed as "the Netflix of books," told PW it plans to launch a new site called eBookToss.com, a virtual "e-book swap" that will ...
Jan 21 2011: Reynolds Price, whose novels and stories about ordinary people in rural North Carolina struggling to find their place in the world established him as one of the most important voices in modern Southern fiction, died on Thursday in Durham, N.C. He was 77.
Jan 19 2011: Ian McEwan has been awarded the $10,000 Jerusalem Prize. Israel's highest literary honor for foreign writers is given biennially to an author whose work best expresses and promotes the idea of "freedom of the individual in society."
Jan 19 2011: Amazon sold about 7.1 million Kindle e-readers last year, Barclays analyst Doug Anmuth estimates today in a note, and will sell 12.3 million this year. ("Though our numbers may still be conservative.")
Jan 18 2011: Joe Gores, a former San Francisco private investigator who became a prize-winning author of hardboiled mysteries such as "Hammett," "Come Morning" and "Spade & Archer," (the first authorized spin off of "The Maltese Falcon") has died. He was 79.
Jan 14 2011: Following yesterday's meeting between publishers and Borders, publishers are considering the numbers presented to them in order to decide whether it is best to accept Borders' offer of a three year note in lieu of current payments due, or to see the retailer declare ...
Jan 13 2011: California Governor Jerry Brown's proposed budget for fiscal year 2011-2012 eliminates state funding for public libraries. This represents a loss of $30.4 million, which currently funds three programs: the Public Library Foundation, Transaction Based Reimbursement, and ...
Jan 12 2011: 4045 votes were cast by BookBrowse subscribers to decide the 2010 BookBrowse Award winners ... and the winners are:
Best Book of 2010:The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Best Debut of 2010: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
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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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