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Death of Pushkin Weekend Special – The Duel x5 for as low as $14.99! To commemorate the passing of one of Melville House’s favorite writers, Alexander Pushkin, we’re running a weekend long sale on his seminal work of Russian prose fiction: Tales of Belkin.… Read more »
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Virginia Senate votes unanimously to reverse governor’s decision to let Amazon skip collecting sales tax In a surprising turnaround, in Virginia, “A bill to force online retailers such as Amazon to collect the same sales taxes that mall discount stores and corner bookstores must assess from… Read more »
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New society for self-published authors will help self-published authors to deal with the publishers that… don’t… publish… them? The Bookseller reports that Orna Ross, a former literary agent and twice Penguin-published, now self-published author, is soon to launch the first non-profit organisation representing self-published authors’ interests, The Alliance… 2 / Read more »
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Best hatchet job of the year chosen “His ‘killingly fair-minded and viciously funny” review of the Pulitzer prize-winning author Michael Cunningham’s latest book, By Nightfall, has won novelist and critic Adam Mars-Jones the inaugural Hatchet Job of… Read more »
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Rumors of Amazon store intensify In the short time since MobyLives first noted the rumors about Amazon “All-Brick-And-Mortar-Retail-Must-Die” Dotcom opening a, er, brick-and-mortar retail outlet — you know, a store — rumors have intensified to… Read more »
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Hail & Farewell: John Sargent Sr., Doubleday head and believer in MBP (Management By Party) An extraordinary Associated Press obituary of John Sargent Sr., who was the CEO of Doubleday from 1963-78 and published everyone from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Stephen King, and hired Jacqueline Kennedy… Read more »
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Best (giant) publishers to work for Bring a friend to a bookstore B&N gets support from Microsoft in Nook patent case Could Amazon “miss out on the all-digital media future… Read more »
