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Amazon sues New York State

May 01 2008: Shelf Awareness reports that Amazon.com has sued the State of New York, charging that its new statute requiring Amazon and other online retailers to collect sales tax on sales made to state residents is unconstitutional. The company is requesting a declaratory judgment ...

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Free Louis L'Amour book for libraries

May 01 2008: To celebrate the centennial of Louis L'Amour's birth, Bantam Books is offering a copy of Education of a Wandering Man, L'Amour's 1989 memoir, to all "the more than 100,000 free lending libraries in the U.S," including public libraries, public school libraries, and ...

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New Abe Shipping Fees Anger Booksellers

May 01 2008: Publishers Weekly reports on used book seller AbeBooks's decision to place an 8% charge on seller shipping expenses that has caused outrage among many of the online retailer’s booksellers, who called the move shortsighted

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Teens say electronic communication isn't 'writing'

May 01 2008: School Library Journal reports on a new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and the National Commission on Writing, that shows that teens believe that writing only takes place in school and on paper—not on cell phones, Web sites, or blogs. The ...

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Son gets 'beyond the grave' message to publish Nabokov's last novel.

Apr 28 2008: Dmitria Nabokov plans to defy the wishes of his father, Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) author of Lolita et al, by publishing his father's unfinished final work which, apparently, the latter wanted burned after his death. For three decades the collection of 50 index cards...

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Wharton's house wins a reprieve

Apr 24 2008: The New York Times reports that The Mount, Edith Wharton’s house in Lenox, Mass., which has been in financial trouble for months, has been given another reprieve - pushing back the imminent foreclosure for another month. So far $800,000 of the needed $3m has been ...

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World Book Day

Apr 23 2008: Today, in may parts of the world, countries are celebrating The International Day of the Book, also known as World Book and Copyright Day. The yearly event has been organized by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) since 1995.

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AuthorHouse bows to Amazon pressure over Booksurge

Apr 21 2008: Publishers Weekly reports that Author Solutions, parent company of AuthorHouse and iUniverse, has acceded to Amazon's recent demand that publishers's print-on-demand titles be printed by BookSurge, Amazon.com’s POD subsidiary, if they wish to continue to make these ...

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