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Sep 03 2009: After Amazon came out against the Google Settlement earlier this week, the Authors Guild has come back with a letter slamming the e-tailer, claiming that "Amazon's hypocrisy is breathtaking." The Guild likened Amazon's control of bookselling and the up-and-coming e-book...
Sep 01 2009: The Walt Disney Company is to buy Marvel Entertainment in a stock and cash transaction totaling about $4 billion.
Bloomberg News reports that "The purchase gives Disney, the world's largest media company, more than 5,000 Marvel characters to market in movies, theme ...
Aug 29 2009: A state budget impasse lasting nearly two months has put Pennsylvania libraries in turmoil, leading to at least one branch closing, preparations for more closures should delays continue, and the fear that the final budget will impose painful, potentially enormous cuts ...
Aug 27 2009: Dominick Dunne, bestselling author and movie producer, has died at the age of 83 after a long battle with bladder cancer. At the time of his death he was finalizing his new novel Too Much Money, which is scheduled to publish in December.
Dunne is survived by sons ...
Aug 26 2009: US booklovers who wish to shop locally but prefer to read ebooks will soon be able to buy ebooks through their local bookstore including many independents (but, for now, only if their local independent uses the American Bookseller Associations (ABA) online commerce ...
Aug 25 2009: Stanley H. Kaplan, who founded the nation's first and largest test preparation company and transformed the way students prepare for higher education, died on August 23.
Aug 24 2009: It's taken 48 years, but at last Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" has topped the bestseller lists on the back of the movie "Julie and Julia".
22,000 copies of the $40 book, stuffed to the brim with full-fat recipes, have sold in the most recent ...
Aug 24 2009: As newspapers across the USA, and much of the world, struggle with declining readership and ad revenue, Richard Murdoch's News Corp have been quietly forming a consortium that would charge for news distributed online and on portable devices. News Corp (which, among ...
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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