Jan 04 2010: Are books dangerous? A new Transport Canada ban on almost all airline carry-on items would seem to indicate just that.
Jan 04 2010: US Retailers emerged from the 2009 holiday season relieved, perhaps even surprised, by modest gains despite several negative factors like the still wobbly economy, fewer discounts, buyers' reticence and disruptive weather. December sales figures will be announced later ...
Dec 31 2009: Ruth Lilly, the last surviving great-grandchild of pharmaceutical magnate Eli Lilly, has died aged 94.
During her lifetime, Lilly gave away much of her inheritance including about $500 million to charitable and arts related groups including a donation of $100 million...
Dec 10 2009: Kirkus Reviews, one of the leading US pre-publication review magazines founded in 1933, is set to close.
Dec 09 2009: Apple's alleged Kindle-killing ereader appears to be scheduled for a Spring 2010 launch - and some industry watchers are wondering whether Hachette and Simon & Schuster's decision to publish the ebook version of a number of high profile books 4 months after the ...
Dec 09 2009: Simon & Schuster plans to delay by four months the e-book editions of 35 leading titles early next year, and Hachette Group has similar plans "for the majority of its titles," according to the Wall Street Journal, which called the moves "a dramatic stand against the cut...
Dec 09 2009: France is to embark on a mass book digitization project financed by a a national loan. Apparently, president Nicolas Sarkozy told a public meeting that he wanted to prevent what he described as a "friendly" large American company taking away its digital heritage.
Dec 08 2009: Take a whistle stop tour 300 years back in time to the year 1709, where you'll meet the man who inspired Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe; another who was the original recipient of the song 'For He's A Jolly Good Fellow'; and "The Flying Priest", who took to the air in a ...
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home: but unlike charity, it should end there.
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