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Barnes & Noble and indies are like, um, peas and carrots
Or so the nation’s largest bookseller would have the record read. At the Digital Book World Conference this past week Barnes & Noble VP of eBooks Jim Hilt suggested many things, with most of them seeming, well, like snow jobs. MocoNews reported Hilt’s talk and… Read more »
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MobyLives
Melville House offers rookie first-time kids author biggest deal ever
Melville House announced today that it has offered wannabe children’s book author Stephen Colbert its biggest deal ever for a first book. After hearing Colbert describe his proposed illustrated children’s book, I Am A Pole, And You Can Too—the story of a lost pole that ultimately finds its… 9 / Read more »
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Jan 23 2012
I WOULD PREFER NOT TO - SHIRTS!!!
Today
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Today Only: Death and the Penguin for $2.99
Jan 27 2012
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Genre or gender in literary bias? 4
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British government releases list of writers who refused to bow before the Queen
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Happy Birthday, Charles Dodgson 1
Jan 26 2012
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Barack Obama learns the book party lesson: Just say you liked it 2
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The psychology of snipers: In new book, U.S. sniper calls Iraqi "savages" 3
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Putin proposes Russian literary canon that's "scary as hell"
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German court blocks British publisher from publishing Mein Kampf in Germany
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TOP TEN: Survey taken while Republican presidential candidates are out of town ranks Washington "most literate city" in the U.S.
Jan 25 2012
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Amazon finds a beard to sell books from its publishing unit 2
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INTERVIEW: Banana Yoshimoto
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Turkey breaks into library 2
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The fifty best bookshops in England, Scotland and Wales 3
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The speculative world of Newt Gingrich, author
Jan 24 2012
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Northwest booksellers "pushback" against Pearl's deal with Amazon
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The hybrid book economy, or, what we've been saying for some time now
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Authors charged with "intent to cause riot" for reading from Satanic Verses at Jaipur Festival 3
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Moby Dick toilet paper
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ADVICE: "Are text messages fair game for poetry?" 1
Jan 23 2012
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I WOULD PREFER NOT TO - SHIRTS!!!
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THE HOLLYWOOD ECONOMIST: Hollywood, SOPA, and the Pirates of the Internet 2
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Kindle users and library patrons made equal in privacy, but only in California
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Amazon's library marketing not to be taken lightly 1
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Melville House at ten years old: no longer "babes in the woods" 1
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The Am-Hole Quiz
Jan 20 2012
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Amazon's drastically declining margins
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Celebrate Penguin Awareness Day by adopting a penguin!
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GChat, fiction and the pace of life: Do we have a problem? 8
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MAKING THE COVER: The Pepe Carvalho series 3
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Rumpus announces pen pal club with Eggers, Ames, Cho and others
Jan 19 2012
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Will Amazon kill the "big six" publishers? 8
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LESSONS IN SPIN: Ezra Pound's daughter says he wasn't a fascist or anti-Semitic, he was just an incredibly shallow trend-follower
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Harper's includes Amazon in its "new network" of monopolies; major publishing CEO calls Amazon's CEO "dangerous"
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Tuna loaf and love: Sadie Stein on the peculiar joys of period recipes 1
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Scientists open Dust Library
Jan 18 2012
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Virginia agrees to let Amazon skip paying taxes, retailers organize in response
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The best/worst print book ad of 2011 10
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Music and literature still kind of a big deal: HMV to increase vinyl sales 2
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Writing in a Digital Age conference announced
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Tradition of drinking to celebrate the life of writer who died after collapsing in a bar comes to sad end 4
Jan 17 2012
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Are affiliate bookselling programs dying off? 4
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The Edge Question 2012: Cognitive scientists explain how our brains sees the world in metaphors 1
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British company says it will use legal loophole to publish Hitler in Germany
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When "Because it's good for you" isn't enough: Wisconsin library bribes parents to join 1,000-books-before-kindergarten program 2
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What makes a cult author? 1
Jan 16 2012
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Smut, Amazon, and the biggest plagiarism problem of them all 2
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Outrage continues over Waterstone's dropping its apostrophe 9
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Apple has surprising response to new report about Chinese supplier
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Tao Lin speaks about the day his father was sentenced to prison
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A city's history --- in its own words...
Day in Review
Average price of Kindle book lower than Nook
Why Rushdie’s voice was silenced in Jaipur
6 authors who moonlighted as lyricists
The Lord of the Rings genealogy project
So you wanna write crime novels?
25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore
The New York Public Library’s Stereogranimator
2012 Sami Rohr Prize For Jewish Literature Finalists
