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Pulitzers announced, 'Tinkers' wins for fiction

Apr 13 2010: The 2010 Pulitzer Prizes have been awarded, with Paul Harding taking top honors in the Fiction category for Tinkers (Bellevue Literary Press), a debut novel set in New England about a dying clock repairman - BookBrowse featured 'Tinkers' at time of publication in early...

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Amazon to open warehouse in Canada

Apr 13 2010: The Canadian government is allowing online book seller Amazon.com to build a warehouse in Canada in return for the U.S. company's promise to promote Canadian culture and to hire its first-ever Canadian employees. Canadian booksellers have consistently opposed the ...

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Google developing tablet to take on iPad

Apr 12 2010: Google CEO Eric Schmidt has confirmed that his company is developing a tablet device based on the Android (Android) operating system, according to friends that spoke to the executive at a recent event in Los Angeles.

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2010 Indies Choice Book Awards

Apr 09 2010: The American Booksellers Association announced the winners of the 2010 Indies Choice Book Awards:

Fiction
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (Knopf)

Nonfiction
The Lost City of Z by David Grann (Doubleday)
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HarperStudio shutting down

Apr 05 2010: HarperStudio, the unusual imprint founded two years ago by Bob Miller, is being shut down and its books and staff will land at other HarperCollins imprints. In its brief life, HarperStudio published mainly nonfiction, offered low advances with profit-sharing and tried ...

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Publishers Weekly sold to former PW publisher

Apr 05 2010: Publishers Weekly (the US's leading publishing industry mag) has been acquired by PWxyz, LLC, a newly formed company headed by one-time PW publisher George Slowik. The new company will retain all of PW's editorial, art, and advertising employees and the magazine will ...

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Early reviews of the iPad

Apr 02 2010: Early reviews of the iPad are starting to come in. 'The Week' summarizes and links to a handful

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Publishers bet future on iPad

Apr 01 2010: Publishers are placing big bets that Apple's iPad will kick-start a commercially viable transition to digital magazines and newspapers.

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