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Editor of 'Quill and Quire' dies suddenly aged 40

Apr 13 2009: Derek Weiler, editor of the Canadian book trade magazine Quill & Quire, died suddenly at the weekend aged 40. He is survived by his wife and two children

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New larger screen Kindle in the works?

Apr 13 2009: Rumor has it that Amazon is developing a new version of its Kindle electronic-book reader featuring a larger screen which could debut before the 2009 holiday shopping season. An Amazon spokesman declined to comment on what he called "rumors or speculation."

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Amazon's de-ranking policy sparks online ire

Apr 13 2009: Shelf Awareness reports that Amazon.com came under Internet fire Sunday when word began to spread that the company had been "de-ranking" certain titles, especially - - though not exclusively - lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender books. The disappearing sales ...

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Spain's most prolific novelist dies having penned 4000 books

Apr 13 2009: Corin Tellado, Spain's most prolific romantic novelist whose books sold over 400 million copies died Saturday in the northern city of Gijon. She was 81.

During her five decade career she published about 4,000 books leading her to be listed in the 1994 Guinness World ...

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Barnes & Noble working on competitor to Kindle?

Apr 09 2009: TheStreet.com reports a rumor that Barnes & Nobel are working on an ebook device to compete with Amazon and Sony. The news comes a week after the CTIA wireless show, where sources say there was heavy speculation surrounding Barnes & Noble's plan to give eBooks another ...

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Recession Fuels Readers' Escapist Urges

Apr 09 2009: The New York Times reports that "in a recession, what people want is a happy ending. At a time when booksellers are struggling to lure readers, sales of romance novels are outstripping most other categories of books and giving some buoyancy to an otherwise sluggish ...

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Disabled Group Protests Removal of Kindle's Text-to-Speech Function

Apr 08 2009: Some 200 people with print disabilities - physical impairments that restrict their ability to read print - protested in front of the Authors Guild headquarters in New York today, rallying against the Guild's attempt to get Amazon to disable the Kindle 2's text-to-speech...

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Whatever happened to J.D. Salinger?

Apr 07 2009: Writing in the British Spectator, Tom Leonard tells of his pilgrimage to Cornish, New Hampshire, where the 90-year-old author of The Catcher in the Rye leads a reclusive existence with his third wife.

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