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Oct 06 2009: "Why do they always name schools after politicians and movie stars? Why don't they name a school after a teacher?" the late Frank McCourt often asked. Now his wish may come true. New York magazine reports that Mayor Michael Bloomberg "is expected to soon announce the ...
Oct 05 2009: More than 160 pirate copies of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol have been traced online, across 12 different download sites. The largest culprit was online filesharer Rapidshare.com which had 102 pirated copies available online last week.
Oct 02 2009: Amazon has agreed to pay $150,000 in a lawsuit filed by 17-year-old Justin Gawronski, who sued the online retailer after George Orwell's novels "1984" and "Animal Farm" were deleted from his Kindle. The money, after going to the law firm representing the teen, will be ...
Oct 01 2009: In an experiment testing consumers' interest in integrated print and video content, Simon & Schuster has partnered with multimedia start-up Vook to create a quartet of titles that melds print and video. The fruits of the partnership are four vooks.
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Sep 30 2009: An overwhelming majority of publishers believe that e-books should be less expensive than the printed version, but only 15% support Amazon.com flat-rate of $9.99 on front-list titles, a survey from the Frankfurt Book Fair has suggested. The survey indicates that ...
Sep 28 2009: The UK Society of Chief Librarians has announced a new scheme enabling readers to borrow books and other items from any public library in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. More than 4,000 libraries have signed up to the scheme, which becomes operational today.
Sep 28 2009: Despite a midday deluge, book lovers turned out in record numbers (approximately 130,000) for the ninth annual National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.
Sep 28 2009: William Safire, a speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon and a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist for The New York Times who also wrote novels, books on politics and a Malaprop's treasury of articles on language, died on Sept. 27, 2009. He was 79.
L.A. Women by Ella Berman
Two ambitious writers in 1960s LA face betrayal when one writes a novel based on the other's life.
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