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Borders eliminates 274 jobs

Jun 05 2008: The anticipated cuts at Borders were announced this morning with the bookstore chain saying that it has eliminated a total of 274 positions.

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ABA launches IndieBound

May 30 2008: In the spirit of the Boston Tea Party, booksellers declared a new era of Independents at Book Expo America on Thursday. The American Booksellers Association - building on a rising tide of localism - launched its new program, IndieBound, to enthusiastic applause. The ...

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Book Sense awards announced

May 30 2008: The Book Sense Book of the Year Award for fiction has been won by Khaled Hosseini for A Thousand Splendid Suns. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick and Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity by Mo Willems won prizes for Children's Literature, and ...

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On-demand titles drive jump in book output

May 29 2008: Publishers Weekly reports that the production of book titles increased by 39% in 2007 to 411,422 titles. The production of traditional books increased by just 1% to 276,649 but output of on-demand, short run and unclassified titles soared from 21,936 in 2006 to 134,773...

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Centennial of Ian Fleming's birth

May 27 2008: To celebrate the centennial of the birth of Ian Fleming, Penguin UK and Doubleday in the US have published the 36th Bond book, Devil May Care, written by Sebastian Faulks. There will be also be a yearlong exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum: "For Your Eyes Only:...

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Microsoft closes Live Search Books program

May 23 2008: Publishers Weekly reports that Microsoft has pulled the plug on its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects, and has taken down both websites. Through the programs, Microsoft has digitized 750,000 books and indexed 80 million journal articles. Those ...

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Bookseller returns to be a thing of the past?

May 22 2008: Publishers Weekly reports that Barnes and Noble CEO Steve Riggio has given his firm backing to look for ways to end the traditional returns practice and predicts that it could be possible to find a solution "in a year or two." At the moment, about one-third of books ...

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Booklocker files class action suit against Amazon

May 20 2008: BookLocker.com has filed a class action lawsuit against Amazon.com in response to Amazon’s recent attempts to force all publishers using Print on Demand (POD) technology to pay Amazon to print their books.

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