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Apr 27 2011: Reports that typewriter manufacturer, Godrej & Boyce based in Mumbai, had closed led to many journalists and bloggers extrapolating on the story to report that the typewriter was no more. But, according to Swintec general manager Ed Michael, this is far from the case -...
Apr 26 2011: Funded by property taxes that are projected to decline by 20-30% annually over the next four years, Detroit Public Library may close up to 18 of its 23 branches, and lay off as many as 57% of its remaining 333 employees (having cut 80 staff just two months ago).
Apr 26 2011: Librarians are ecstatic over the upcoming integration of Amazon’s Kindle ereader with OverDrive’s library ebook lending platform, dubbing it "fabulous," and "great," while hoping for the "seamless experience" that OverDrive has promised, but details are in short supply....
Apr 20 2011: Amazon and Overdrive Media have reached an agreement that will enable patrons to borrow Kindle books from over 11,000 libraries in the United States (i.e. those that currently provide ebooks to their patrons via Overdrive). Books will be able to be read on all Kindle ...
Apr 20 2011: By a 15-5 vote yesterday, the South Carolina Senate Finance Committee agreed to give Amazon "a break from collecting sales taxes after the company threatened to pull out of building a 1,200-job distribution center.
Update: from Florence Morning News ... "In the end, ...
Apr 18 2011: A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Browse an excerpt and reviews of Goon Squad and reviews of the winners in the nonfiction, poetry, biography and history categories at BookBrowse...
Apr 18 2011: Yesterday, the CBS documentary "60 Minutes" ran a 15 minute piece that called into question some of the work of Greg Mortenson's Central Asia Institute and charged that some key sections of his bestselling memoir Three Cups of Tea are untrue. View the broadcast, and ...
Apr 15 2011: Net book sales in February fell 10.6%, to $442.2 million, as reported by 84 publishers to the Association of American Publishers. For the year, net book sales are down 5% Sales of e-books rose 202% to $90.3 million and represented 20.4% of total sales (even though ...
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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