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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.
Jun 04 2009: Marilynne Robinson has won the Orange Prize for Fiction for Home.
The Orange Prize is one of the most prestigious of literary prizes, awarded annually for the best original full-length novel by a female author of any nationality, written in English and published in the...
Jun 04 2009: Bestselling fantasy author David Eddings, who wrote The Belgariad and the Malloreon series, has died aged 77.
May 27 2009: Alice Munro has been announced as the winner of the third Man Booker International Prize.
Worth 60,000 UK pounds (~US $100,000) to the winner, the prize is awarded every two years to a living author who has published fiction either originally in English or whose work...
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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