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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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Jan 11 2011: The estate of J.D. Salinger and Swedish author and publisher Fredrik Colting have entered into a consent agreement to end the copyright battle over Colting's book 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye - a purported sequel to Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. The ...
Jan 10 2011: Clare Vanderpool has won the John Newbery Medal, awarded for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature for her first novel, Moon over Manifest.
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Jan 06 2011: Dick King-Smith, creator of more than 100 wonderful books for children, including The Sheep Pig, has died aged 88.
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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