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Jun 29 2009: As threatened, Amazon.com has "ended business relationships" with its marketing affiliates in North Carolina so that it can avoid having to collect sales tax on sales to people in the state.
Jun 24 2009: Ohio Governor Strickland has proposed cuts that would cut in half the budget of 175 of the 251 library systems in Ohio. Yesterday, Library Journal posted an open letter to the Governor.
Jun 23 2009: Those who are following the saga of J.D. Salinger's suit against an unknown Swedish writer and publisher named Fredrik Colting (writing under the name John David California) seeking to permanently bar publication in the USA of 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye ...
Jun 19 2009: Amazon has informed its North Carolina marketing affiliates "that it would stop doing business with them by July 1" if the state passes a law forcing online retailers to collect the 4.5% sales tax.
Jun 17 2009: In a precedent-setting ruling today, federal judge Deborah Batts ruled that J.D. Salinger's most famous character, Holden Caulfield, is protected by copyright. She did not rule, however, on whether Swedish author Fredrik Colting’s use of Salinger's iconic character in ...
Jun 15 2009: In what seems like a remarkably belated action, Bloomsbury is being sued for copyright infringement in Harry Potter Books by the estate of English children's writer Adrian Jacobs who claim that Rowling copied substantial parts of the Jacobs's The Adventures of Willy the...
Jun 12 2009: Simon & Schuster has announced that it has entered into a deal with Scribd, the online "social publishing company," that claims some 60 million readers a month, to sell books. Starting immediately nearly 5,000 Simon & Schuster e-book titles will be available on Scribd ...
Jun 09 2009: As the one millionth word enters the English lexicon, Simon Winchester explores the joys of our truly global language.
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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