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November 12, 2009 02:39 PM EST --
Still feeling guilty about dropping $28.50 on that James Patterson hardcover at B&N? Well, earn back some of your literary cred by participating in the first annual Independent Bookstore Week in . . .
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October 29, 2009 04:42 PM EDT --
Barnes & Noble recently started showing off the Nook , their new eBook reader that merges an iPhone-like LCD touch screen and the eInk-powered monochrome reader page. Last week, AOL's tech blog, . . .
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October 29, 2009 02:13 PM EDT --
Check out the list of actively-Tweeting writers, publishers, book bloggers and booksellers I put together using Twitter's new Lists feature. It runs the gamut from international bestseller Margaret . . .
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October 21, 2009 10:42 AM EDT --
Slagging book sales, be damned! Two publishing vets banded together to launch a new bookshop this weekend in the cozy community of Fort Greene, Brooklyn. With a combined 25 years in the books biz, Jessica . . .
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October 15, 2009 04:55 PM EDT --
-- Privacy Proponents Fight Patriot Act's Exposure of Bookseller Lists --
I hope you kept your receipt for The Anarchist Cookbook , because Big Brother may indeed be watching your book-buying . . .
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September 26, 2009 06:30 PM EDT --
Photographer Kyle Cassidy always wondered if there "was a connection between the places that writers work and their work itself" -- and to answer the question, he selected 20 Science Fiction authors . . .
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September 24, 2009 10:42 PM EDT --
After getting trounced repeatedly in book sales since the onset of the downturn in late 2008, publishers are rejoicing very cautiously and quietly over July's little skip up in book sales. The Association . . .
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August 18, 2009 07:03 PM EDT --
HarperCollins announced a 20.6% drop in revenue for the quarter ending June 30, 2009, Publisher's Weekly reports . Citing -- among other things -- a decline in book sales, CEO Brian Murray admitted . . .
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August 12, 2009 12:07 PM EDT --
Necessity once again breeds invention, this time in California where Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a deal to stock up classrooms with free e-books in lieu of their costly and cumbersome paper . . .
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August 05, 2009 05:50 PM EDT --
NBA's site features a visual list of the 77 fiction-prize winners over the last six decades of handing out the Award. Sadly, I've only read five of them in their entirety, and snippets of others. . . .
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August 03, 2009 05:33 PM EDT --
Feeling guilty about being an unproductive scribe? Enjoy your next coffee break(s) with this great list of 100+ Lit-Twitterers that will remind you that even the likes of Paulo Coelho get distracted . . .
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July 28, 2009 11:31 AM EDT --
In an overdue attempt to attract more tech-wielding squatters, Barnes & Noble today announced a deal with AT&T to pump free wi-fi into its 777 locations. According to CEO Steve Riggio, . . .
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July 20, 2009 02:15 PM EDT --
Using an exacto knife and old pulp novels, American photographer/artist Thomas Allen created a series of delightful diaramas that spotlight the quirky appeal to the classic paperback genre. Shot in . . .
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June 05, 2009 04:50 PM EDT --
With the exciting announcement of a new local bookshop in the Fort Greene area of Brooklyn, NY, my love and nostalgia for the indie book shop is in full swing. During a trek down to SoHo this week . . .
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June 03, 2009 11:00 AM EDT --
Print is dead...long live print! Defying struggling book sales and a sluggish economy, two award-winning book nerds set out to open a brick-and-mortar book store.
Jessica Stockton Bagnulo ( of the . . .
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May 28, 2009 12:25 PM EDT --
Anyone who has ever participated in a book club -- and especially those who failed to read the book -- will find this all-too familiar. Funny or Die (the video-comedy site from Will Ferrell , et al) . . .
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May 27, 2009 03:47 PM EDT --
Here's a quick one for you: CollegeHumor.com takes a shot at the de-evolution of reading with this faux-mercial for the next-generation digital e-reader. Featuring "an exciting new visual . . .
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May 21, 2009 02:50 PM EDT --
I stumbled on this self-publishing company called Lulu today (I was actually looking for LaLa.com ), and was impressed with the quality and breadth of offerings on the site. With more than a dozen . . .
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May 18, 2009 04:47 PM EDT --
It can be argued that the web has done many things for literature, but one of my favorites is how the digital era has lowered the barrier of entry for conversation around books. Amazon, Shelfari, . . .
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April 24, 2009 03:46 PM EDT --
Tragic story out of Arkansas this week about non-fiction author David McElyea, who committed suicide on Wednesday in a Wal-Mart in Fayetteville. Author of " When Money Grows On Trees ," . . .
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