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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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Amazon vs Macmillan

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 ...

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Macmillan vs. Amazon vs. Readers

Feb 02 2010: Amazon has still not resumed selling books published by Macmillan (including Picador, Holt and St Martins) and, for the second day in a row, Amazon's stock price slipped.

Earlier today, the Authors Guild defended Macmillan and criticized Amazon's "bullying tactics"...

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Amazon pulls all Macmillan books from sale

Jan 30 2010: The e-book price wars have broken out. Amazon have removed all Macmillan books from sale (which include Tor, St. Martin’s Press, Picador, Holt and many others) and, apparently have also removed all the publisher's books from people's wish lists and removed other content...

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J.D. Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye', dead at 91

Jan 29 2010: J. D. Salinger, who was thought at one time to be the most important American writer to emerge since World War II but who then turned his back on success and adulation, becoming the Garbo of letters, famous for not wanting to be famous, died on Wednesday at his home in ...

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Amazon claims to have sold 'millions of Kindles'

Jan 28 2010: Amazon have been noticeably reticent in providing sales figures for their Kindle e-reader. The nearest to a concrete figure came in today's announcement of their fourth quarter sales results, in which founder and CEO Jeff Bezos states that, "Millions of people now own ...

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