Feb 24 2012: After a two-week pause in adding new members, on Thursday evening Google e-mailed a number of affiliates that sell Google eBooks, including independent booksellers, and announced that they are being dropped from the program.
Update: 2/29/2012: Google announced that ...
Feb 23 2012: Little, Brown has world English rights to the first novel for adults by JK Rowling, the company announced Thursday morning. All details, including title, publication date and topic will be announced later this year.
In the release, Rowling says, "Although I’ve ...
Feb 22 2012: Legendary publisher Barney Rosset has died aged 89. Rosset bought Grove Press in the 1950s, and championed the works of countless writers, including: Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Jack Kerouac, Malcolm X, Pablo Neruda, Kenzaburo Oe, Kathy Acker, and David Mamet.
To ...
Feb 22 2012: Amazon has removed all ebooks published by Independent Publishers Group (IPG). IPG is the second-largest independent book distributor in the USA representing over 700 publishers. IPG President Mark Suchomel said in an email alert yesterday: "I am disappointed to report...
Feb 17 2012: Anthony Shadid, a foreign correspondent and author who wrote dispatches from the Middle East for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The Associated Press for almost two decades, died in Syria on Thursday, apparently of an asthma attack.
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Feb 13 2012: Author Jeffrey Zaslow died in a car accident last week at the age of 53. He was the author of The Girls From Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship, The Magic Room: A Story About The Love We Wish For Our Daughters and co-author of The Last Lecture (with ...
Feb 10 2012: Penguin Group USA have announced that with immediate effect it "will no longer offer additional copies of ebooks and audiobooks for purchase via Overdrive" and is severing their ongoing relationship with the vendor. Libraries will continue to have access to titles they ...
Feb 07 2012: Last week, the word in the blogosphere was that Amazon was considering opening a bricks-and-mortar store. Over the weekend goodereader.com added substance to the rumors saying, "Amazon sources close to the situation have told us that the company is planning on rolling ...
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