Mar 21 2012: The Publishers Association in the UK is calling for the government to abolish the 20% VAT rate on e-books, putting pressure on chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne ahead of the Budget today to match the zero-rating on print books for digital editions.
Mar 19 2012: The Hunger Games movie, the first in a planned trilogy based on the book trilogy of the same name by author Suzanne Collins, has already presold 1 million tickets ahead of its opening this Friday.
Mar 10 2012: Jean Giraud, one of France's leading comics artists, has died in Paris at the age of 73 after a long illness. He drew for more than 50 years, under various names, but was most widely known as Moebius.
Mar 09 2012: The 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award winners have been announced: Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman (fiction), Liberty's Exiles by Maya Jasanoff (nonfiction), George F. Kennan by John Lewis Gaddis (biography), and The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok (autobiography)...
Mar 08 2012: The Orange Prize longlist has been announced. The 20-title list includes The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue, Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan, The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape), Gillespie and I by Jane Harris, The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, The...
Mar 08 2012: The Wall Street Journal reports that the Justice Department has warned Apple and Penguin, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster that it plans to sue them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of electronic books by adopting the agency ...
Mar 06 2012: A plan to digitize half a million "unavailable" books from the 20th century is drawing fire from authors - 900 of whom have signed a petition saying the scheme is an abuse of their intellectual property rights. Authors have the option to opt out of the program within ...
Mar 02 2012: The Utah House of Representatives passed legislation yesterday by a 69-0 vote "that would require remote retailers with nexus in Utah via distribution centers or subsidiaries to collect and remit sales tax for purchases made by state residents." The bill now moves to ...
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