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MobyLives
Virginia agrees to let Amazon skip paying taxes, retailers organize in response
After California, Texas, New York and Indiana all enacted legislation forcing Amazon to start collecting the taxes and imposed deadlines to do so, Virginia startled observers of the Amazon-tax-scofflaw issue by announcing just before Christmas that it would allow the company to skip collecting state… Read more »
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MobyLives
The best/worst print book ad of 2011
Book ads have always been pretty generic. Open any book review this weekend and you’ll see a lot of “unique,” “striking,” “devastating,” “masterpieces,” of “glorious fun,” “brilliantly rendered,” and “uniquely satisfying.” “Major treats,” “from places never dreamed of.” “Worthy additions and “intriguing tales” that “can’t… Read more »
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Dec 12 2011
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Today
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Music and literature still kind of a big deal: HMV to increase vinyl sales
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Writing in a Digital Age conference announced
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Tradition of drinking to celebrate the life of writer who died after collapsing in a bar comes to sad end
Jan 17 2012
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Are affiliate bookselling programs dying off? 3
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The Edge Question 2012: Cognitive scientists explain how our brains sees the world in metaphors 1
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British company says it will use legal loophole to publish Hitler in Germany
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When "Because it's good for you" isn't enough: Wisconsin library bribes parents to join 1,000-books-before-kindergarten program 2
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What makes a cult author? 1
Jan 16 2012
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Smut, Amazon, and the biggest plagiarism problem of them all 2
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Outrage continues over Waterstone's dropping its apostrophe 9
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Apple has surprising response to new report about Chinese supplier
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Tao Lin speaks about the day his father was sentenced to prison
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A city's history --- in its own words...
Jan 13 2012
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What makes an adaptation work? or, Did something go wrong with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo? 5
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One critic's New Year's resolution: Quit Amazon and practice "reverse showrooming"
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Not Beloved in the Heartland 1
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Parsing the race for the presidency
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Previously unknown composition by Brahms found in old book
Jan 12 2012
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Et tu, Nancy Pearl? 6
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Pandora's box about to be reopened: Who owns erights to old books? 6
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Has literature always been dying since the beginning? 1
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Salman Rushdie in trouble again 2
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James Daunt takes possession of Waterstone's punctuation 3
Jan 11 2012
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The Hatchet Job of the Year award: Shrimp for snark
- The newest viral video: Books at play by night
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New book about the Obamas draws "scathing" White House response
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Man Asia Prize shortlist announced: Melville House's The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto makes the cut 2
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Dave Tompkins on writing and travelling with the vocoder
Jan 10 2012
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The problem with ebooks and libraries is that there should be no problem 8
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Scholars and publishers celebrate the end of the James Joyce estate 1
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Amazon ups co-op and discount pressure on publishers to "astronomical" levels
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Finnegan's List: book recommendations from Europe's top writers
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When innovation backfires
Jan 09 2012
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Total panda-monium: Leigh Stein's THE FALLBACK PLAN goes on tour 2
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Is B&N; beginning its exit strategy? 1
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Rare books burn in Egypt, only accusations remain
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Chicago teacher says he was fired for writing a book about his affair as a student with a teacher
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McNally Jackson's bestselling book is ... a fee?
Dec 24 2011
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eBooks For Your New eReaders
Dec 19 2011
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Just released: The North Korea book Christopher Hitchens called "electrifying" and "brilliant"
Dec 16 2011
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Making the cover: The Fallback Plan 2
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Hail & Farewell: Christopher Hitchens
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INTERVIEW: Veronica Liu on making a pop-up bookstore in New York City 2
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INTERVIEW: Rebecca Swift, founder of The Literary Consultancy, on changes in the industry and getting published 1
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The Most Overrated Books of 2011 1
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16th Century erotic poem found hidden in Chaucer book 2
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Happy Birthday, Jane Austen!
Dec 15 2011
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Project Complete: The Essential Heinrich Böll 1
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Melville House Staff Picks for the Holidays
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Hail & Farewell: George Whitman, owner of Shakespeare & Co.
Day in Review
Gender bias in the NY Times 2011 edition
Nobody is making content worth reading
Indian Lit Festival Invitation To Author Salman Rushdie Stirs Controversy
The wait for Harry Crews is over(?)
The Collected Blurbs of Gary Shteyngart
who is outsourcing his tweets to India
