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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 ...
Jul 13 2010: Pennsylvania's libraries are bracing for an additional 8.4 percent cut in state aid following a massive 27.9 percent decrease in 2009.
Jul 12 2010: In court testimony Friday, the second day of trial in the suit by Ron Burkle's Yucaipa Companies against Barnes & Noble over B&N's "poison pill" provision, B&N chairman Len Riggio testified that the provision was not about "me and my family," the Wall Street Journal ...
Jul 12 2010: The ongoing legal dispute between Stieg Larsson's family and partner Eva Gabrielsson complicates the likelihood of the unfinished 4th Millenium novel from being published anytime soon, but some details on the book have come to light ...
Jul 03 2010: Beryl Bainbridge, one of the grandes dames of the UK's literary scene, died yesterday. Bainbridge was a prolific writer whose short, dark comic novels - which invariably included a streak of tragedy - landed her five shortlistings for the Man Booker prize (and the label...
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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