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Holt withdraws 'Last Train From Hiroshima' from sale

Mar 02 2010: Update March 1: After questions have surfaced about the validity of other accounts Pellegrino sourced in The Last Train From Hiroshima, Holt has decided to shelve the title entirely. Holt shipped 18,000 copies of the book and will issue a credit to wholesalers and ...

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Library Journal & School Library Journal sold

Mar 01 2010: Library Journal and School Library Journal, two of the many publications Reed Business Information has been trying to divest itself of over the past several months, have been sold to Ohio-based Media Source, which already owns Junior Library Guild and The Horn Book.

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Kindle fails college tests

Feb 23 2010: Studies by several colleges including Princeton and the University of Virginia have failed the Kindle as a study tool.

The biggest problems that students had with the Kindle was difficulty highlighting and making notes - as summarized by Princeton researchers in ...

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Author Dick Francis dies aged 89

Feb 15 2010: Bestselling author Dick Francis died on February 14, 2010, at his home in Grand Cayman. He was the bestselling author of 42 crime novels, selling more than 60 million copies in 35 languages. His writing stemmed from a successful earlier career as a National Hunt ...

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Original diary from Faulkner's 'Go Down, Moses' discovered?

Feb 11 2010: A diary has been discovered that may have been used by William Faulkner as the model for a farm ledger that plays a key role in Go Down, Moses (1942).

“I think it’s one of the most sensational literary discoveries of recent decades,” said John Lowe, an English ...

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Kirkus Reviews gets new owner

Feb 11 2010: Herb Simon, owner of the NBA team the Indiana Pacers; chairman emeritus of Simon Property Group, a shopping mall developer; and co-owner of an independent bookstore in Montecito, California has bought the Kirkus Reviews from the Nielsen Company, which announced in ...

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Justice Department still has issues with Google Settlement

Feb 05 2010: The Department of Justice dealt a serious blow Thursday evening to the chances that the Google Book Search settlement will gain court approval later this month when it found that the revised agreement still raises class certification, copyright and antitrust issues.

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Hachette formally adopts 'agency model'

Feb 05 2010: Hachette Book Group USA became the second major U.S. publisher to officially announce its intention to move to an agency model for the sale of e-books. Although, unofficially, 5 of the 6 large US publishers effectively indicated that they would do this when they signed...

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