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Feb 12 2009: The new Amazon Kindle (officially available Feb 24) features a robotic voice that can, if wished, read the book out loud. This feature has caused the Authors Guild to issue a public statement urging authors to consider the implications this could have to the $1 ...
Feb 09 2009: Amazon have launched the Kindle 2 (officially available Feb 24 for $359). The device can hold an average of 1500 books and has an improved battery life that will hold its charge for two weeks. It is lighter and thinner (about as thick as a pencil) than the original ...
Feb 03 2009: Reed Exhibitions announced yesterday that June's Book Expo Canada is being closed "effective immediately."
Canadian author and editor of January Magazine, Linda Richards has an interesting take on the closure saying,
"Though some media are acting surprised by Reed...
Jan 28 2009: Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture has won the Costa book of the year award (formerly the Whitbread Award) after what the Guardian describes as "an extraordinarily close finish." Apparently Barry was favored by five judges while the other four were in support of ...
Jan 28 2009: Three Percent has announced its shortlist of best 2008 books in translation. The winners will be announced on February 19. Three Percent (named for the approximate 3% of books published in the USA that are books in translation) launched in the summer of 2007 as part of...
Jan 28 2009: It has been confirmed that 'Book World', the Washington Post's stand-alone book section, will cease publication as a print edition in mid-February. Book coverage will now be divided between the daily Outlook section and the Sunday Style & Arts section of the newspaper....
Jan 27 2009: American novelist, poet, short story writer, art and literary critic, John Updike, died this morning from lung cancer. He was 76.
Jan 27 2009: Mediabistro reports on the possible imminent arrival of the Kindle 2.0 based on the press conference booked for Feb 9th in midtown Manhattan. The last time Amazon held a press conference in Manhattan was in November 2007 to unveil the Kindle 1.0.
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