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How To Be A Woman wins UK Galaxy Book of the Year

Dec 23 2011: Journalist Caitlin Moran's take on modern feminism How to Be A Woman has won the UK's Galaxy Book of the Year. Moran's book beat 10 other contenders chosen by industry experts to be crowned the overall winner by a public vote. It will be published in the USA in May ...

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Christopher Hitchens dies aged 62

Dec 16 2011: The writer and journalist Christopher Hitchens has died at the age of 62 after being diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in June 2010.

According to the Guardian, the reactions to his illness from his intellectual opponents testified to his stature as one of the ...

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Amazon Price-Check Saturday Update

Dec 14 2011: Anger among retailers over Amazon's price check promotion continues to rise. The app incentivizes consumers to use their local retailers as showrooms and then buy the same product at Amazon at a discounted rate.

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R.-Maine) called for Amazon to ...

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Amazon's Fire "less than a blazing success"

Dec 14 2011: The Kindle Fire, Amazon’s heavily promoted tablet, is less than a blazing success with many of its early users. Complaints include that there is no external volume control and the off switch is easy to hit by accident. Also there is no external volume control. The off ...

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Help Needed to Give Away a Million Books on World Book Night!

Dec 14 2011: The list of 30 books that will be offered on World Book Night USA has just been released. If you are a USA resident aged 16 or over and would like to give away books, go to www.us.worldbooknight.org and complete the form which asks, simply, which book you want to ...

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BBC short story prize open to international entries

Dec 09 2011: The BBC's award for short fiction is to turn international for one year to celebrate the Olympics, with the shortlist to be expanded from five stories to 10. The award is now open for submissions from publishers, agents and authors from anywhere in the world who have ...

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European Union & US Justice Dept investigate 'improper collusion' to prevent book discounting

Dec 08 2011: A day after the European Union announced that it has begun formal antitrust proceedings against five international publishers and Apple over the agency pricing program for e-books, the Justice Department confirmed that it, too, is investigating "whether there was ...

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World Book Night's 2012 mission to take books to hardest to reach readers

Dec 07 2011: World Book Night founder, Jamie Byng, says there is a "very good chance" the book donation event will take place in "dozens" of countries by 2014.

Speaking with the UK publishing industry mag, The Bookseller, he said that the aim of the 2012 UK event is to "expand ...

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