Aug 11 2009: After the New York Times reported that the William Morris Endeavor agency would be officially advising clients to opt out of the Google settlement, the Authors Guild issued a statement of its own Monday afternoon claiming the agency was off base in its assessment and ...
Aug 11 2009: Two of the National Advertising Review Council’s investigative units plan to announce Tuesday their first decisions involving blogs. Their recommendations call for clear disclosure when a company is sponsoring a site or paying for product reviews.
Aug 10 2009: Neil Gaiman has won the Hugo Award for The Graveyard Book
The Hugo Awards, given annually since 1955, are science fiction’s most prestigious award. The Hugos are voted on by the thousands of members of the current Worldcon which is also responsible for ...
Aug 06 2009: Budd Schulberg, who wrote the award-winning screenplay for On the Waterfront and created a classic American archetype of naked ambition, Sammy Glick, in his novel What Makes Sammy Run?, died on Wednesday. He was 95.
Aug 06 2009: Philippa Gregory will serialise her latest novel on Twitter in the week preceding The White Queen's publication later this month.
Gregory has written the tweets of Elizabeth Woodville, the main protagonist of the novel. The tweets can be viewed at www.twitter.com/...
Aug 05 2009: Sony is introducing two new electronic reading devices and cut prices for new and bestselling e-books. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Reader Pocket Edition and Reader Touch Edition "will sell for $199 and $299 respectively and will go on sale at the end of ...
Aug 03 2009: Ben & Jerry's is considering launching a library-themed ice-cream flavor, after a campaign by New Jersey librarian, Andy Woodworth, gathered over 4000 supporters in just a few days. Woodworth hopes this will raise awareness of libraries "in the face of stagnant or ...
Aug 03 2009: A 91-year-old woman from Stranraer in south-west Scotland is believed to be Britain's most prolific library book reader after staff at her local library realized she is on the brink of borrowing her 25,000th book - having borrowed her first in 1946.
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