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Jun 22 2010: Apple have announced that the company has sold three million iPads in eighty days; and developers have created over 11,000 new apps specifically for the iPad, which join the more than 225,000 apps designed for the iPhone and iPod that also work on the iPad.
Jun 21 2010: The eBook price wars have commenced. A few hours after Barnes & Noble slashed Nook prices, Amazon has announced a special $189 price for the Amazon Kindle--coupled with free shipping....
Jun 18 2010: Jose Saramago, the Portuguese writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998 with novels that combine surrealist experimentation and a kind of sardonic peasant pragmatism, has died at his home in the Canary Islands. He was 87.
His publisher in the US, Houghton...
Jun 16 2010: Overall, April book sales in the USA were up 24.8 percent compared to April last year with significant gains in adult hardcovers (up 49 percent) and ebooks (up 127.4 percent). All book sales for the year to date are up almost 12 percent.
Jun 15 2010: The vetting scheme that, in its original proposal, would have required one in four British adults to go through a government approval process before being allowed contact with children and vulnerable adults, has been scrapped by the new British government as draconian. ...
Jun 09 2010: Barbara Kingsolver has won the Orange Prize for Fiction for The Lacuna. The Orange Prize carries a 30,000 UK pound award (about US$48,000) award, and winners receive a bronze figurine nicknamed the "Bessie."
According to Daisy Goodwin, chair of judges, The Lacuna ...
Jun 08 2010: Apple announced today that iBooks, its electronic reader application and e-bookstore, is getting new new features, including the ability to make notes, create bookmarks and read PDF documents. The app, which debuted on the iPad, is also coming to the iPhone and iPod ...
Jun 08 2010: Following up on a survey of readers first presented at the Winter Institute in San Jose, California, Jack McKeown, director of new business development for Verso Digital--and now a bookstore owner --presented findings at BEA based on the initial surveys as well as ...
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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Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
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