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Reaction to Amazon retribution against IPG spreads quickly, but Big Six remain silent The news that Amazon.com has removed thousands of ebooks from the Independent Publishers Group (IPG) — the distributor for hundreds of small presses — in retribution after IPG refused to… 14 / Read more »
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Something rotten in Arizona: Where books aren’t “banned,” just put in boxes in storage “I grew up in South Tucson. So when I go down to Tucson Unified School District, I’m going home.” — John Huppenthal Like many of us, John Huppenthal would seem… 1 / Read more »
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Amazon ebook withdrawal: an author’s perspective Jim Hanas, a writer and sometime bookseller, has given an author’s perspective of Amazon’s decision to remove the buy buttons from IPG-distributed ebooks: I’ve never been an anti-Amazon radical. I usually… 1 / Read more »
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Analysts — and customers — predict Amazon losing significant tablet sales to B&N and Apple Barclay’s analyst Anthony DiClemente made Wall Street news yesterday when he announced he was “cutting his estimates for [Amazon's] sales of Kindle e-book reader and Kindle Fire tablet computer” because… Read more »
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When de Maupassant met Swinburne At the wonderful Public Domain Review, Julian Barnes tells the story of when Guy de Maupassant met Algernon Swinburne, over lunch at the Normandy home of a man Swinburne was visiting… Read more »
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Pottermore: Where is it? J. K. Rowling goes adult Study: Re-reading a book is good for your mental health Marie Colvin remembered by Eliza Griswald and Emily Troutman Vintage comic… Read more »
