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Barnes & Noble working on competitor to Kindle?

Apr 09 2009: TheStreet.com reports a rumor that Barnes & Nobel are working on an ebook device to compete with Amazon and Sony. The news comes a week after the CTIA wireless show, where sources say there was heavy speculation surrounding Barnes & Noble's plan to give eBooks another ...

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Recession Fuels Readers' Escapist Urges

Apr 09 2009: The New York Times reports that "in a recession, what people want is a happy ending. At a time when booksellers are struggling to lure readers, sales of romance novels are outstripping most other categories of books and giving some buoyancy to an otherwise sluggish ...

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Disabled Group Protests Removal of Kindle's Text-to-Speech Function

Apr 08 2009: Some 200 people with print disabilities - physical impairments that restrict their ability to read print - protested in front of the Authors Guild headquarters in New York today, rallying against the Guild's attempt to get Amazon to disable the Kindle 2's text-to-speech...

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Whatever happened to J.D. Salinger?

Apr 07 2009: Writing in the British Spectator, Tom Leonard tells of his pilgrimage to Cornish, New Hampshire, where the 90-year-old author of The Catcher in the Rye leads a reclusive existence with his third wife.

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Boston Globe threatened with shutdown

Apr 06 2009: New York Times Co. has told employees at the Boston Globe it is prepared to shut down the newspaper within a month unless it gets labor concessions - a move that reflects both the financial pressure the Times Co. is under and the depths to which its once-prized property...

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British Book Awards announced, Obama wins biography award

Apr 03 2009: On the week that President Barack Obama paid his first official visit to the UK at the G20 summit, he left with an unexpected piece of luggage - a British Book Awards Nibbie as the winner of the Biography of the Year for Dreams From My Father. Other winners include:

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Research shows reading reduces stress by 2/3rds

Mar 31 2009: The Daily Telegraph (UK) reports on research that shows that just six minutes of reading can reduce stress levels by 2/3rds:

"Subjects only needed to read, silently, for six minutes to slow down the heart rate and ease tension in the muscles, he found. In fact it got...

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Borders bookstores safe for another year

Mar 31 2009: To the relief of book publishers, it appears that Borders has been given another 12 months to sort itself out financially with the announcement that leading shareholder and lender of last resort Pershing Square has extended their $42.5 million loan until April 1, 2010 -...

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