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A Forgotten Dahl Piece Resurfaces on eBay

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 ...

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Borders bids for Barnes & Noble

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...

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Google eBookstore opens

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 ...

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The year in history - 1910

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 ...

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Amazon and Penguin announce fourth Novel Award competition

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 ...

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Google Editions coming soon

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 ...

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Indies report generally positive Black Friday sales

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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Norris Church Mailer, artist and wife of Norman Mailer, dies aged 61

Nov 22 2010: Norris Church Mailer, a woman bred in the rural poverty of Arkansas who married Norman Mailer and managed his career and family life over three decades while carving out her own niche as a writer, died of cancer on Sunday at her home in Brooklyn Heights. She was 61.

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