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Obama Signs 'Libel Tourism' Law

Aug 12 2010: Culminating a years-long lobbying campaign organized by the Association of American Publishers, President Obama this week signed the Speech Act, a law that prohibits federal courts from recognizing or enforcing foreign libel judgments in the U.S. that do not pass First ...

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County takeover looks set to save Camden, NJ libraries

Aug 11 2010: Camden's libraries, which received national attention last week when it appeared that budget cuts would force them out of business permanently, are to be saved.Camden City Council is expected to approve a resolution allowing the Camden County library system to take over...

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Possible Sale of B&N

Aug 04 2010: Barnes & Noble's board of directors plans to evaluate strategic alternatives, including a possible sale of the company, to increase stockholder value, the company announced yesterday. The board's decision was prompted, it said, by the price of B&N's shares in the ...

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Wylie and Amazon: Authors Guild Apportions Blame Share This Article

Jul 27 2010: The Wylie literary agency is causing a stir in the publishing industry following its announcement of a two year agreement to sell ebooks only through Amazon. The works in question are apparently governed by old publishing contracts in which the authors didn't expressly...

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Amazon selling 180 Kindle books for every 100 hardcovers, but traditional book sales stable elsewhere

Jul 22 2010: (7/20): According to its press release yesterday, Amazon claims to be selling 180 Kindle books for every 100 hardcovers; and to have sold three times as many Kindle books in the first half of 2010 compared to the first half of 2009. However it is still reticent about ...

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$20 e-Reader targeted at developing world and NGOs

Jul 21 2010: The $20 Humane Reader is designed to provide low-cost computing solutions to places without internet access. The unit can store up to 500 books so they can be read on a TV screen. According to Humane Informatics, televisions are far more common in developing countries...

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Lawyers open cache of unpublished Kafka manuscripts

Jul 21 2010: Four desposit boxes were prised open in a Zurich bank on Monday. Inside were manuscripts, drawings and letters from Franz Kafka that had been locked away for more than 50 years. But the expectant Kafka enthusiasts, historians and critics will have to wait longer, after ...

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Coalition Challenges New Massachusetts Internet Law

Jul 14 2010: A coalition of organizations, including publishers and booksellers, filed suit on Tuesday to block a Massachusetts law that would ban certain works from the Internet deemed to be "harmful to minors."

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