Jan 27 2010: Apple have unveiled their iPad tablet at a much lower base price point than anticipated -starting at $499, which is likely to provide serious competition to ereaders such as the Kindle and Nook and to smaller computers known as netbooks. A range of industry responses...
Jan 27 2010: Christopher Reid has won the 2009 Costa Book of the Year Award for his collection of poems entitled A Scattering (Arete), beating off competition from front runner Colm Toibin.
Last month Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín won the Costa Novel of the Year award. Other category ...
Jan 25 2010: The National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists for its book awards on Saturday in New York. The winners will be announced at a ceremony in New York City on March 12. The full list of finalists can be found at the link below.
Jan 25 2010: Authors Stieg Larsson, Stephenie Meyer, and Dan Brown made the biggest impact on European book buyers in 2009, according to an analysis of the top 10 international fiction bestsellers published by book trade magazines, including The Bookseller (UK), Germany's ...
Jan 21 2010: In what is seen as preparation for a face-off against Apple's tablet computer (expected to be introduced next week and available in Spring), Amazon is opening the Kindle up to programmers to develop applications (what Amazon calls active content). Programmers will keep...
Jan 20 2010: Booklocker and Amazon have reached a settlement agreement in the antitrust class action lawsuit Booklocker filed against the e-tailer in 2008.
Under the agreement, Amazon agreed to not remove Booklocker books from its Web site or to remove the "Add to Shopping Cart"...
Jan 20 2010: Robert B. Parker, the best-selling mystery writer who created Spenser, a tough, glib Boston private detective who was the hero of nearly 40 novels, died on Monday of a heart attack while working on a book at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 77.
Jan 19 2010: The USA based Book Industry Study Group has released the first of three surveys of consumer attitudes toward e-book reading. Key findings, as reported by Shelf Awareness are:
Wherever they burn books, in the end will also burn human beings.
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