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Nook & Kindle fastest selling products

Oct 28 2009: The Nook has become the fastest selling single item at Barnes & Noble since the retailer introduced the e-reader October 20, according to company CEO Steve Riggio.

Amazon reported that the Kindle was its fastest selling product in both unit and dollar terms. Neither ...

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Barnes & Noble's Nook

Oct 20 2009: Barnes and Noble's ebook reader, the Nook, is about to launch. Among Nook's features are that you can loan books to friends and that it supports an open standard so that anything can be distributed on it, including 1/2 million free public domain titles from Google. It ...

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Book price wars escalate

Oct 19 2009: As Walmart and Amazon vie for the lowest online prices - Walmart.com have lowered their price on a handful of top selling hardcovers to $8.99, while Amazon remain at $9.00

Walmat CEO Raul Vazquez told the The Wall Street Journal last week that they "will go as low as...

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National Book Award finalists announced

Oct 14 2009: The National Book Foundation has announced the finalists for the 2009 National Book Awards. The winners will be announced at the National Book Foundation's 60th anniversary celebration on November 18 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City, hosted by Andy Borowitz. ...

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Questions mount before debut of international Kindle

Oct 12 2009: Amazon has given the international publishing community plenty to ponder as it gathered this week for the Frankfurt Book Fair. The pending release of a $279 Kindle that will be available for sale in more than 100 countries has raised many questions including: How will ...

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Herta Mueller wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Oct 09 2009: Romanian-born author Herta Mueller* has won the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature. A member of Romania's ethnic German minority Mueller was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain. The Nobel committee honored her for work that "with the...

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The books that might influence the war in Afghanistan

Oct 07 2009: As reported by Shelf Awareness, The future course of the war in Afghanistan is currently being influenced by two books that "draw decidedly different lessons from the Vietnam War," according to Wall Street Journal.

"President Barack Obama recently finished Lessons ...

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Kindle goes international

Oct 07 2009: Amazon made its long-awaited move into the international market, announcing last night that it will begin shipping a new device with U.S. and international wireless access October 19. The new Kindle, priced at $279, will be available in more than 100 countries, Amazon ...

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