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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 ...
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"...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
Jan 28 2010: Publishers are looking on Apple's iPad as a chance to reset the downward spiral in e-book prices. Yesterday, when Steve Jobs announced the new iPad he also confirmed that five of the six largest publishers have signed on to provide e-book content for the new tablet. ...
Jan 28 2010: Louis Auchincloss, a Wall Street lawyer from a prominent old New York family who became a durable and prolific chronicler of Manhattan's old - money elite, died on Tuesday night in Manhattan. He was 92.
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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