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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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...
Feb 04 2010: Update Feb 7: The dispute between Macmillan and Amazon was resolved on Friday when Amazon began restoring buy buttons to all of Macmillan's titles.
Update Feb 4: Truepenny's blog is a great starting point for an update on what's been happening.
It includes ...
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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