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Dec 14 2010: The ten titles long-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize has been announced and includes representation from Japan, China, India and the Philippines, including Japanese writer, Kenzaburo Oe, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994
Dec 13 2010: The first two pages of The Eyes of Mr. Croaker, a children's story written by Roald Dahl in 1982 that he sold to two young American writers with the intention of publishing it in the proposed Do-It-Yourself Children's Storybook, have resurfaced in Los Angeles after ...
Dec 07 2010: Borders has filed a $960 million bid for Barnes & Noble with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
To quote Shelf Awareness, "Although intriguing, the bid that would be financed by equity fund head Bill Ackman seems as thin as a potboiler. The major problem is that...
Dec 06 2010: Today, Google has finally opened its much talked about online bookstore with over 3 million titles available for free plus hundreds of thousands available for purchase.
Google supports Android, iOS, Nook, Sony readers, and other devices with automatic page ...
Dec 02 2010: For the last few years, when the holiday season comes around, we've looked back to previous centuries for the newsworthy events of the year. Today, please join me on a whistle stop tour 100 years back in time to 1910 ...
Dec 01 2010: Amazon.com and Penguin Group have announced the fourth annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition. Due to the popularity of the additional young adult category in 2010, the competition will again award two grand prizes: one for general fiction and one for best ...
Dec 01 2010: Google is going forward with plans to launch an e-book store by the end of the year. Google Editions will grow out of Google Books, the company's service for browsing and previewing books on the Web. Unlike Amazon, the Google Editions Web-based model will not require a ...
Nov 30 2010: Publishers Weekly reports that the majority of independent bookstores they contacted had solid holiday sales over the Thanksgiving weekend with memoirs leading the way, most notably The Autobiography of Mark Twain and George Bush's Decision Points...
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