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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 ...
Apr 20 2009: New Dan Brown novel, The Lost Symbol, to be published by Doubleday this September with largest first print run in Random House, Inc. history - 5 million copies.
Apr 20 2009: Cambridge University confirm that famed mathematician and author of A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking, has been rushed to a hospital and is very ill.
Apr 20 2009: JG Ballard, author of scores of short stories and fifteen novels including Empire of the Sun (based on his childhood in a Japanese prison camp in China), has died aged 78 after a long illness.
Apr 16 2009: The American Library Association listed 530 challenges against specific books in 2008, a roughly 25% increase year on year, but well below the levels in the 1990s. The ALA defines a challenge as a "formal, written complaint filed with a library or school requesting that...
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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