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Anne Enright and Robert Massie win first ever Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction

Jun 25 2012: The winners of the first ever Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were announced at the American Library Association annual conference in Anaheim yesterday. The winners are The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright and Catherine The Great by Robert...

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Books-A-Million adds voice to oppose Dept. of Justice e-book price fixing deal

Jun 22 2012: Books-A-Million has joined the growing number of parties objecting to the Department of Justice’s agreement with Simon & Schuster, Hachette and HarperCollins to settle the department’s e-book price fixing lawsuit. BAM’s letter, signed by president and CEO Terry Finley, ...

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Three-quarters of US public libraries offer e-book lending services but half of patrons who own e-book readers do not know that their library loans e-books

Jun 22 2012: While three-quarters of USA public libraries now offer e-book lending services, a new survey shows that while 58% of respondents have a library card and 69% consider the library important to them and their family only 12% had borrowed an e-book from a library during the...

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Penguin to re-enter library e-book market

Jun 21 2012: In the past year, Penguin Group USA has slowly pulled away from the library e-book market. Now it is tiptoeing back in.

The publisher is working with New York City libraries and 3M on a pilot program that will make Penguin e-books available in city libraries ...

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March book sales down 7%, but up 6.2% year to date.

Jun 18 2012: USA total net book sales fell 7% in March compared with the same time last year. For the year to date, net book sales have risen 6.2%. Children's/YA e-books kept up its strong rate of growth, rising 174%

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US State Dept likely to spend $16.5 million on Kindles

Jun 13 2012: The U.S. State Department is considering a no-bid, $16.5 million contract with Amazon to provide Kindle Touches for its overseas language-education programs.

In a document justifying the no-bid contract, the State Department says it’s identified "the Amazon Kindle ...

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Sainsbury's buys 64% stake in Anobii

Jun 12 2012: Saiinsbury's, Britain's third largest supermarket group now owns 64% stake of Anobii, which has over 600,000 users worldwide and a library of 60,000 ebooks. Sainsbury's purchase of HMV Group's shareholding in Anobii for a nominal one English pound (about $1.60)

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Google reaches agreement to scan French books

Jun 12 2012: Google reports that it has reached an agreement in France that could bring back to life thousands of out-of-print works. The French Publishers Association and the Société des Gens de Lettres, an authors’ group, dropped lawsuits in which they contended that Google's book...

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