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Amazon spent $1.7 million on security for Chief Executive Bezos

Apr 15 2010: According to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Amazon spent $1.7 million last year on security for Chief Executive Jeff Bezos!

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'Twilight', 'My Sister's Keeper', 'To Kill a Mockingbird' top challenged book list

Apr 15 2010: The American Library Association recorded 460 challenges last year, down from 513 the year before, with 81 books removed from libraries

Topping the chart is Lauren Myracle's "IM" series, the novels, told through instant messages, are criticized for nudity, language ...

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Over three-quarters of a million self published titles published in USA last year

Apr 15 2010: 764,448 titles were produced in 2009 by self-publishers and micro-niche publishers, according to R.R. Bowker. The number of "nontraditional" titles dwarfed that of traditional books whose output slipped to 288,355 last year from 289,729 in 2008. Taken together, total ...

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Pulitzers announced, 'Tinkers' wins for fiction

Apr 13 2010: The 2010 Pulitzer Prizes have been awarded, with Paul Harding taking top honors in the Fiction category for Tinkers (Bellevue Literary Press), a debut novel set in New England about a dying clock repairman - BookBrowse featured 'Tinkers' at time of publication in early...

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Amazon to open warehouse in Canada

Apr 13 2010: The Canadian government is allowing online book seller Amazon.com to build a warehouse in Canada in return for the U.S. company's promise to promote Canadian culture and to hire its first-ever Canadian employees. Canadian booksellers have consistently opposed the ...

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Google developing tablet to take on iPad

Apr 12 2010: Google CEO Eric Schmidt has confirmed that his company is developing a tablet device based on the Android (Android) operating system, according to friends that spoke to the executive at a recent event in Los Angeles.

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2010 Indies Choice Book Awards

Apr 09 2010: The American Booksellers Association announced the winners of the 2010 Indies Choice Book Awards:

Fiction
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (Knopf)

Nonfiction
The Lost City of Z by David Grann (Doubleday)
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HarperStudio shutting down

Apr 05 2010: HarperStudio, the unusual imprint founded two years ago by Bob Miller, is being shut down and its books and staff will land at other HarperCollins imprints. In its brief life, HarperStudio published mainly nonfiction, offered low advances with profit-sharing and tried ...

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