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May 01 2009: May 1st is Buy Indie Day. The idea: buy one book - paperback, hardcover, audiobook, whatever you want - at an independent bookstore near you. Find an independent bookstore near you at Indiebound.org
Apr 30 2009: The Guardian reports on the remarkably diverse reading culture in Europe with Swedish crime fiction dominating the charts led by
Stieg Larsson,
Henning Mankell, Liza Marklund and Jens Lapidus.
By awarding points for chart position and length of time in the charts...
Apr 29 2009: Obama has already sent a number of non-fiction books to the top of the bestseller lists by being seen reading them. Can he do the same for fiction?
In a forthcoming interview in the New York Times Magazine Obama admits to being "sick enough of briefing books" and ...
Apr 28 2009: The Daily Telegraph reports on the new book vending machine (one of three in the world) recently installed in the Blackwell bookshop in the Charing Cross Road, London.
The reporter ordered a 540-page copy of Crime & Punishment (one of 400,000 titles available) to ...
Apr 28 2009: Publishers Weekly reports that despite the popularity of the Kindle, Amazon.com appears to be hedging its bets and has acquired Lexcycle, the company that produces Stanza, the e-book reading app for the iPhone. The iPhone’s full color high resolution screen is ...
Apr 27 2009: A librarian at Oxford's Bodleian Library has unearthed the earliest-known book dust jacket. Dating from 1830, the jacket wrapped a silk-covered gift book, Friendship's Offering.
Apr 27 2009: The New York Times poses the question, how will Amazon's Kindle affect literary snobbism? ...
"The practice of judging people by the covers of their books is old and time-honored. And the Kindle, which looks kind of like a giant white calculator, is the technology ...
Apr 20 2009: James D. Houston, who captured the promise, the harshness and the sheer beauty of California in novels like Continental Drift and Snow Mountain Passage and in nonfiction works like Farewell to Manzanar, about a World War II internment camp for the Japanese, died on ...
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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