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Pushing back against 'Showrooming', Target will no longer stock Kindles

May 03 2012: Target plans to stop selling Amazon Kindle e-readers and tablets, and has already removed the products from its website.

"This is evidence that Target is getting more serious about Amazon as an enemy rather than a partner," said analyst Matt Nemer of Wells Fargo. "...

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Toni Morrison to be awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom

Apr 30 2012: Toni Morrison is one of thirteen people to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom - the USA's highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world ...

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Barnes & Noble and Microsoft form partnership in new B&N subsidiary combining digital business and B&N College

Apr 30 2012: Barnes & Noble and Microsoft have formed a partnership in a new B&N subsidiary - temporarily called Newco - that consists of B&N's digital business and B&N College. Microsoft is making a $300 million investment in Newco for a 17.6% equity stake; B&N will own the other ...

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Tor publisher announces all ebooks will be DRM free by July - enabling books to be transferred between devices

Apr 25 2012: Tom Doherty Associates - comprising the Tor, Forge, Orb, Starscape, and Tor Teen imprints - has announced that their entire list of ebooks will be available DRM-free "by early July." In a separate, following notice, Tor UK said that it will do the same. Digital...

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'Three Cups of Tea' author, Greg Mortenson, and publisher seek dismissal of class action suit

Apr 20 2012: At a federal court hearing this week, author Greg Mortenson and his publisher sought dismissal of a lawsuit that "aims to obtain class-action relief for book-buyers allegedly defrauded by purported fabrications" in Three Cups of Tea and Stones into Schools.

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Apple wants to go to trial to defend itself against price-fixing allegations

Apr 19 2012: Apple wants to go to trial to defend itself against U.S. government allegations of colluding with publishers to fix e-book prices, Apple lawyer Daniel Floyd told U.S. District Judge Denise Cote yesterday. Reuters reported that publishers Macmillan and Penguin "took a ...

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Pulitzer Prizes announced. Prize for fiction not awarded as judges could not reach a majority

Apr 17 2012: The Pulitzer Prizes have been awarded including a first win for online news network, The Huffington Post.

Other winners include:

Nonfiction: Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How The World Became Modern (Norton)

History: Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of ...

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Apple calls charges of collusion "simply not true"

Apr 13 2012: A day after the Justice Department filed suit against Apple and five publishers over the agency model for e-books, Apple called the charges of collusion "simply not true."

Quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris said, "The launch of the ...

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