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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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New Random House CEO announced

May 20 2008: Bloomberg reports that 39 year old Markus Dohle is to take over from Peter Olson, 58 (who is stepping down to take up a career in academia) as the CEO of Random House. Bertelsmann bought New York-based Random House in 1998. Dohle, who holds a degree in industrial ...

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The digital future of books

May 20 2008: Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Gordon Crovitz waxes lyrical about Amazon's Kindle, comparing the cultural shift from print to electronic books to the era of Aristotle when the written word displaced the oral tradition.

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Charity begins at home for this bookseller

May 19 2008: The Boston Globe is calling into question the business ethics of GotBooks.com, a company that runs ads in the Boston Globe and many community newspapers asking for book donations, but is actually a for-profit used bookseller.

Robert Ticehurst, who runs GotBooks, says ...

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So, you wrote a book – now what?

May 19 2008: Veteran bookseller and publisher David Unowsky, writing in the Twin Cities Daily Planet, has some no-nonsense advice on how to place your book on store shelves (and ensure that it doesn’t just sit there).

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Lexicographical Longing

May 13 2008: The New York Times reports on the demise of the printed version of the Oxford English Dictionary which was last published in print in 1989 as a 20 volume set, and has since expanded considerably - to the point that it is now only practical to make it available in full ...

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Nuala O'Faolain RIP

May 13 2008: Nuala O'Faolain, author of the bestselling memoir Are You Somebody, died on May 9 in Dublin.  She was 68.  Learning that she had terminal cancer just eight weeks before her death she declined treatment and instead embarked "on a last visit to her ...

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Vote for the Best of The Booker Prize

May 13 2008: To celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Booker Prize, six authors are in the running to win a one-off award and be titled The Best of the Booker. The six authors are Pat Barker, Peter Carey, JM Coetzee, JG Farrell, Nadine Gordimer and Salman Rushdie. Voting will end ...

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