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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 ...
Aug 21 2009: Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo are planning to join a coalition of nonprofit groups, individuals and library associations to oppose a proposed class-action settlement giving Google the rights to commercialize digital copies of millions of books.
"This deal has enormous...
Aug 20 2009: Author and attorney Scott Gant has filed a 50-page objection claiming that the Google Book Search settlement is an illegal expansion of class-action law.
Gant, a Harvard-educated lawyer with more than a decade of class-action litigation experience, and the author of...
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
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