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- Hachette Sets Green Targets, Kindle Sales Climb, and More 01 December 07:50|1 Comment
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High demand is keeping the Nook out of stores for another week; a major literary center will open next year at Melbourne’s State Library; one of the United Arab Emirates has an ambitious plan to hand out free books; the cash-strapped Washington Post is experimenting with an online bookstore; and o...
Officials are assessing damages after a fire ripped through a New Jersey public library; a literary landmark in Seattle is facing a choice between relocation and closure; a Massachusetts bookstore marked Black Friday by raising prices; Bloomberg Press is closing its doors; and other news...
Amazon has treated the six-inch Kindle to a pre-holiday upgrade; a book once owned by the girl who inspired Alice in Wonderland is going up for auction; “tweets” need no longer be lost to posterity, thanks to a new publisher; potential customers will soon get an in-store look at the Nook, B&N pro...
British publishers are celebrating a bill that calls for tougher digital copyright rules; a prospective buyer is offering hope for the employees of a troubled Arizona paper; Steve Almond’s new publisher is Harvard’s print-on-demand bot; and other news. [More....]
Experts continue to warn about the implications of the new Google deal for “copyright orphans”; a museum of storytelling is planned in Oxford; Albert Camus’s son is fighting the “Panthéonization” of his father; the troubled Sun-Times Media Group has a new head; Apple is keeping mum on whether it...
Critics have charged that the new Google deal still lacks pricing and privacy protections; a slew of award-winning authors are in the running for this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction award; an online authors’ directory now has a Scribd tie-in; the ALA is at work on its annual Library Design Sho...
A literary collective has revamped its online magazine; preorders for Sony’s new wireless e-reader are already causing delays; agent Irene Goodman is raising money for charity by auctioning off her critical services; a new Web site examines how libraries can stay relevant in the digital age; and o...
Mystery maven Otto Penzler will publish an eponymous imprint next year; new technology allows e-books to be converted en masse to the popular ePub standard; cuts to library funding in Massachusetts have met with protests; Aussie booksellers are miffed at the persistence of import regulations; and...
Plans for a PBS debate yesterday fizzled after a Google Books rep failed to show; the Writers Union of Canada is opposing the revised book-scanning settlement; Smashwords has inked a global distribution deal with a “cloud-computing” firm; the latest ranking of public libraries is out this wee...
Most foreign-language works have been dropped from the Google Books settlement; the Open Book Alliance has cried foul on the new deal; Sony is rolling out themed e-readers for the holidays; a library in Phoenix is going shopping after collecting a massive late fine; and other news. [More....]
Advocates for the visually impaired say the Kindle needs improvements; the submissions pool for a new literary journal is an online forum; staff at the Sonoma County Library system will take an unpaid furlough over the holidays; the musty smell of old books contains useful data for...
Amazon is re-releasing a trio of fiction titles originally published through BookSurge; Rupert Murdoch doesn’t want Google to keep him from charging for digital content; a British university press is hoping to expand its appeal with a new imprint; a public library in California is trying out a “...
A new tool lets “green” publishers stamp their eco-savings right into books; Amazon’s “Kindle for PC” app is live; Reed Elsevier suddenly has a new CEO; Andrew Sullivan’s print-on-demand project is steaming ahead; Reading, Pennsylvania may not lose its library branches after all; and other news....
Germany is looking for a way to handle the digitization of copyright “orphans”; an English teacher has been suspended for assigning an explicit story; Amazon is wooing literary agents; squabbling has broken out among a trio of indie bookstores in Wisconsin; Waterstone’s focus on the bottom line ...
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