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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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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."
Jul 13 2010: New Jersey has slashed its library support by 43 percent, but, though shocking, it's still a victory for library supporters, who staved off a proposed 74 percent reduction. As a result, libraries will lose half their per capita state aid and four regional networks will ...
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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