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Dec 08 2009: Some US Independent booksellers, looking to survive the recession, price wars and the challenges of e-books and online booksellers, have found that they can import anticipated books, such as the third volume in Stieg Larsson's popular mystery series that began with The ...
Dec 07 2009: The Lettera 32 Olivetti typewriter on which Cormac McCarthy typed all his novels for more than forty-five years (an estimated 5 million words) has sold at auction for $254,500. Mr McCarthy originally purchased the typewriter in 1963 for $50. He has replaced his old ...
Dec 07 2009: The London Times reports that Amazon UK is in secret negotiations to open high street stores but an Amazon spokesman states that "We have no plans to open physical stores anywhere in the world."
Dec 04 2009: Legendary literary agent Don Congdon, who spotted the talent of Ray Bradbury early in both their careers and whose long list of celebrated authors also included William Styron, Jack Finney, Evan S. Connell, William L. Shirer and David Sedaris, died on Monday at his home...
Dec 01 2009: In yesterday's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Amazon spokeswoman Cinthia Portugal claimed that, "For every 100 books we sell in physical, we sell 48 Kindle books... This is up from 35 books for every 100 in May. Our customers tell us they read more with Kindle because they ...
Nov 30 2009: Colleen McCullough, the Australian author of the best-selling novel The Thorn Birds, is to undergo brain surgery for a condition known as trigeminal neuralgia that causes "unbelievable pain" to her face.
Nov 30 2009: Borders UK launched a closing down sale this weekend, with all 45 branded Borders and Books Etc stores across the UK affected.
Nov 25 2009: A copy of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" bought for a 'few shillings' about 50 years ago, and shelved in the family's bathroom in Oxfordshire for many years (where it was recently discovered) sold at auction yesterday for 103,250 UK pounds (about US $171,000).
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