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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.
Sep 28 2009: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's seminal novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is the piece of writing that has most shaped world literature over the past 25 years, according to a survey of international writers.
Indra Sinha, Blake Morrison, Amit Chaudhuri and 22 other authors...
Sep 28 2009: French group La Martiniere has become the first publisher worldwide to sue Google in court, demanding 15m Euros (~US $8m) in damages for copyrighted books digitized by the search engine without permission.
Sep 23 2009: The US Authors Guild and the American Association of Publishers have asked for the Fairness Hearing into the Google Settlement to be postponed as they seek to address concerns raised by the US Justice Department last week.
If granted it will be the second time the ...
Sep 22 2009: The Free Library of Philadelphia, due to close on October 2 if the state did not pass necessary funding, has been saved by a vote of 32 to 17. The library's website offers the following thank you:
"We are enormously grateful to everyone who advocated on our behalf. ...
Sep 21 2009: In a highly anticipated brief, the Department of Justice says the Google Book Search Settlement as currently structured should be rejected by the court overseeing its approval. "As presently drafted the proposed settlement does not meet the legal standards this court ...
Sep 18 2009: Looking to understand the current financial crisis? If so, a good place to start might be the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award shortlist, just announced, which contains two Depression-era histories, two books by serving corporate bosses, a blow-by-blow ...
Sep 08 2009: In a move meant to blunt criticism from European authors and publishers, Google said it will "remove all European books that are still commercially available from its $125 million program to scan orphaned and out-of-print books in the U.S. and sell them online. As a ...
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people... but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the...
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