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Your tax dollars at work: Say hello to the world’s biggest-ever publisher, Random Penguins The news that the world’s two largest publishers, Random House and Penguin, are in talks about a merger should not have come as a surprise. It’s been rumored for months… Read more »
- Amazon UK stripped of ebook tax advantage
This one’s pretty sweet: Amazon will soon be deprived of one of its (many) tax-dodging schemes. MobyLives reported earlier this week that Amazon UK had been paying the Luxembourg sales… Read more »
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Defining “ownership” for ebooks There’s been debate in the past week about what constitutes ownership of ebooks, particularly when libraries get involved. A Library Journal article entitled “Random House Says Libraries Own Their Ebooks,” seemed… Read more »
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Orson Welles’ 1945 broadcast of Fitzgerald’s The Diamond as Big as the Ritz This January, Melville House is releasing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Diamond as Big as the Ritz as part of its Art of the Novella series. The book, which displays many of Fitzgerald’s… Read more »
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FRIDAY SOMETHING-OR-OTHER-TO-DO-WITH-BOOKS MUSIC VIDEO: Elvis Costello Bob Dylan aside, few rockers are praised for the literary quality of their songwriting more than Declan MacManus, a.k.a. Napoleon Dynamite, a.k.a. The Right Reverend Jimmy Quickly, a.k.a. Elvis Costello.… Read more »
