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Sep 21 2011: Amazon and library e-book vendor OverDrive announced this morning its plan to allow library lending via the Kindle and Kindle app is now live. The service, which will be available at some 11,000 libraries across the U.S. at launch, enables libraries to expand their e-...
Sep 19 2011: Readers from across the United States and around the world are demonstrating their support for free speech by participating in a virtual read-out of banned and challenged books that will culminate during the 30th annual Banned Books Week (Sept. 24-Oct. 1), the only ...
Sep 12 2011: The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon is talking with book publishers about launching a Netflix type service for digital books, in which customers would pay an annual fee to access a library of content. Publishers that spoke with WSJ are apparently unenthusiastic ...
Sep 12 2011: The California Senate and Assembly have overwhelmingly passed a compromise bill that delays California's effort to force online retailers such as Amazon.com to collect the state's sales taxes while retailers lobby Congress for national rules governing online sales taxes...
Sep 08 2011: Amazon.com cut a tentative deal with legislative leaders Wednesday night that would allow it to postpone collecting sales taxes from Californians for another year.
The company in turn would drop its battle to overturn the state's new law that required it and many ...
Sep 08 2011: Michael Stern Hart, founder and head of Project Gutenberg, who many consider invented the ebook, died this week aged 64.
On July 4 1971, having been granted access to significant computing power at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he was inspired to ...
Sep 07 2011: Flipkart is now India's biggest online bookseller, with over 10 million titles distributed from warehouses in five cities. It has branched from books into mobile phones, appliances, gaming consoles, music and movies, and now sells 10 products a minute. All this from a ...
Sep 07 2011: The Booker Prize shortlist has been announced with the usual mix of criticism and praise from various quarters. Indeed, the controversy over each year's list is as much a tradition as the Prize itself.
Pony Confidential
by Christina Lynch
In this whimsical mystery, a grumpy pony must clear his beloved human's name from a murder accusation.
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