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So long Jane Austen — Amazon planning to have ads in Kindles
Well, strange that it took this long, I guess: Amazon is planning to add advertising to the Kindle reading experience. According to a report from — where else? — AdAge by Jason Del Rey, they won’t be cheap, either: Amazon is pitching ads on the… Read more »
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Vatican threatens to sue over book
“The Vatican has denounced as ‘criminal’ a new book of leaked internal documents that shed light on power struggles inside the Holy See and the inner workings of its embattled bank, and warned that it would take legal action against those responsible,” according to this… Read more »
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Mar 31 2012
"I WOULD PREFER NOT TO" T-SHIRTS
Today
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Library book slasher on the loose in Chapel Hill
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Neil Gaiman gives a commencement speech
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Frat boys burning text books to celebrate graduation burn down frat house
May 18 2012
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Everybody's an Expert, or, 1,972 Amazon Reviewers Can't Be Wrong
- The DSK Affair: One Year Later, a Shakespearean tragedy
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France warns EU to watch out for Amazon's "predatory pricing"
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Winnie the Pooh house for sale
- Charlaine Harris drives a stake in the heart of her Southern Vampire series
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Is this the laziest book-related app of all time? 1
- Oxford Comma dance break 1
May 17 2012
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Hundreds of writers and scholars rally to save the NYPL
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More highlights of the DOJ lawsuit evidence show the battle is bigger than you think
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TONIGHT: Jean-Christophe Valtat in conversation with Laura Miller at BookCourt
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How to kill a book club 3
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RIP: Angelica Garnett
May 16 2012
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The new copyright agreement you don't know about
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Judge comes down hard on motion to dismiss class-action lawsuit against Apple and publishers over ebook pricing 2
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Hail & Farewell: Carlos Fuentes
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Real page-churners 1
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Pinch Pulitzer goes to David Foster Wallace
May 15 2012
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The problem with "truthiness" highlighted as David Sedaris report called into question 3
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Newly released court docs reveal Penguin CEO wanted to "make Random House hurt" for not joining fight against Amazon
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Famed English-language bookshop in Paris to close 1
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What (really) happens to your eReader when you die?
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John Updike's home will become a museum
May 14 2012
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Writer attacked on book tour
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Amazon's anti-library grows with Harry Potter deal
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt --- publisher of giants and front for Amazon --- declares bankruptcy 1
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Our child who made art in heaven 4
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The curse of being profiled in The New Yorker 1
May 11 2012
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Agents group joins the battle vs DOJ
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Reinventing libraries: ideas good and terrible 2
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The New York Times shows Tumblr its basement
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What we talk about when we talk about book covers
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BOOK TRAILER: Aurorarama
May 10 2012
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The killer of killer apps
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Sara Nelson joins Amazon
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St. Patrick of Armagh, deliver me from writing 2
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Steam punk fests on the rise, and our J.C. Valtat with them
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New 52 books hitting stores this week
May 09 2012
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"Can someone save criticism from The Atlantic?"
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Colbert's children's book releases same day Maurice Sendak dies
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Characters from novels can influence real-life behaviour
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Judge's Wizard of Oz analogy too much for Government censors
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Fodor's revamping travel book apps
May 08 2012
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Google asks judge if it can have fun and beat up authors one at a time instead of having to face them as a group where they actually have a chance, judge says probably not 1
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Did Apple kill the publishing App dream?
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Rare book found in oldest library in US South
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Writers: Don't sleep 1
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The Pulitzer Prize, take two
Day in Review
Carlos Fuentes gets state funeral
BYU prof calls for rating “for mature content” for kids books
New book details how David Cameron “chillaxes”
Cameron says he doesn’t chillax that much
Everyday words invented by famous authors
James Daunt is poised to enter the e-reader wars
Who’s in the Millionaire Authors Club
After a years-long embargo, Hachette to start selling ebooks to some libraries
Big jump for sales of US books overseas
Plastic Logic — thought to make the best ereader ever — quits
Historic oopsies: Rejection letters for famous books
