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Nov 09 2005: Last month I reported to you that it was rumored Amazon would shortly be launching a micro-payment scheme for reading books online. As of this week rumor has turned to fact with two announcements from Amazon.
The first is the launch of Amazon Pages, a program ...
Nov 09 2005: Over at Random House it's been a busy week for announcements. Firstly, at almost the same time as Amazon announced their micro-payment scheme, Random House announced their own proposed terms of sale for digital viewing, with a plan that will allow online visitors...
Nov 09 2005: Last week a spokesperson for Marvel Comics confirmed that Stephen King has agreed to write a new installment of his Dark Tower series as a graphic novel to be published in 2006. Sources say that the new installment will be published first as a comic book periodical ...
Oct 19 2005: According to Bowker, there were approximately 375,000 new English-language books published in 2004 in the combined markets of the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Adding in imported editions available in multiple ...
Oct 19 2005: British playwright Harold Pinter was the surprise winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature last week.
The 75-year-old Londoner, son of a Jewish dressmaker, is one of Britain's best known ...
Sep 14 2005: The Sea by John Banville won the Man Booker Prize (a leading UK literary prize) for fiction on the 10th October and, as a result, his USA publisher Knopf (part of Random House) are speeding up the publication of The Sea in the ...
Sep 14 2005: The saga of Google Print for Libraries continues with the Authors Guild's recent lawsuit against Google alleging that their ongoing project to make digital copies of all the books in the collection of the University of Michigan constitutes 'massive copyright...
Sep 01 2005: Amazon have unveiled their long talked of program to sell magazine-style short stories from established authors - their first foray into publishing per se. 'Amazon Shorts' allows customers to to buy and then download or print out short stories for 49 cents (...
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
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