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Barnes & Noble reports reader device sold out
- 2 Hours ago
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ATLANTA - Barnes & Noble Inc.s Nook device for reading digital versions of books, introduced last month, is sold out and new orders wont ship until after Christmas. The retailer said last month when it
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Founder of Tampa's Revered Black Bookstore Dies
- 6 Hours ago
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Felecia Wintons Taylor, 50, a fixture in TampaĆ¢??s black community and former owner and general manager of Books For Thought, a popular black bookstore in the Tampa Bay area for 15 years, has died after
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Gold silver traders book profit as prices fall
- 10 Hours ago
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A more robust gain in the US dollar overnight (rising 0.56 on the index, to 75.82) drew additional sales from gold holders and dented values in crude oil as well as other precious and base metals. The
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Harlequin Comics Now Available on Amazon's Kindle
- 10 Hours ago
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TORONTO, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- (www.eHarlequin.com), a global leader in series romance and one of the world's leading publishers of women's fiction, and (www.softbankcr.co.jp), one of Japan's leading
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French publishers slam new Google book proposals
- 12 Hours ago
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French book publishers gave a hostile reception Thursday to new proposals by the Internet giant Google to clear the way for millions of books to be sold online. The proposals 'do not mark any progress
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Author to sign book at university
- 10 Hours ago
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The Messenger ..0Bi Bill Haltom Ć¢?? father, husband, lawyer and award-winning writer Ć¢?? will sign copies of his book, Ć¢??Some Assembly Required,Ć¢?Ā at p.m. Dec. at Paul Meek Library on the University
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J.C. Penney kills its Big Book catalog
- 10 Hours ago
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Plano, Texas-based Penney confirmed that its fall/winter 2009 catalog is its last semiannual, telephone-book-size volume. The Internet has made the 1,000-page shopping venue obsolete, and printing and
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Nook e-readers sold out for holidays
- 12 Hours ago
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NEW YORK Ć¢?? Consumers who haven't yet ordered Barnes & Noble's electronic book reader, the Nook, won't see one before Christmas. The earliest that anyone who orders the $259 device on Friday Ć¢??
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British journal Granta stirs sales in Chicago
- 11/20/2009
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Buyers snap up Chicago issue of literary magazine X Text Size In a holiday season abuzz about the Kindle gadget and e-books, the prominent British literary quarterly Granta has caused a stir of its own.
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McClatchy Launches Digital Kindle Editions
- 13 Hours ago
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The McClatchy Co. announced todayon Facebookthat five of its papers are now available on the Kindle: The Sacramento (Calif.) Bee, The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram in Texas, the
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Can Chegg Beat the Kindle at the Textbook Game?
- 14 Hours ago
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The Kindle may be the king of e-readers, but it has a long way to go before being accepted as an acceptable replacement for textbooks. When Amazon's device was introduced at Princeton for classroom assignments
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Tax book published by MIM
- 17 Hours ago
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The need for a book on principles of Maltese VAT has been strongly felt in Malta particularly by practitioners in the industry and in services. The book will also serve as a fundamental reference and
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Colum McCann wins coveted US National Book Award
- 11/20/2009
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NOVELIST COLUM McCann became the first Irish person to win one of Americas most prestigious literary awards on Wednesday night. McCanns Let the Great World Spin was announced as the winner of the National
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Curled up with the Kindle: Some initial observations
- 11/20/2009
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Technology, Tech Desk, Kindle The Kindle was a big hit in the National Post newsroom. Photo by Tech reporters get to play with all the coolest toys. A few times a week, I get a call from the friendly
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