Google eBooks, the very eBooks we offer for sale via our website, www.bookpeople.com, launched in Australia.
The Marketplace Fairness Act has been introduced in the Senate, which would authorize states to require the collection of sales tax by online retailers. The American Booksellers Association and Amazon are both on board.
Bloomberg Businessweek has a terrific article on what the demise of Borders does – and doesn’t – mean for booksellers and the book industry.
Booksellers in Greece have been hit hard by the nation’s economic crisis. ekathimerini.com has a sobering article.
Little, Brown pulled the new crime novel Assassin of Secrets by Q. R. Markham (real name Quentin Rowan – a bookseller, of all things!) from shelves upon discovery that the book plagiarized everything from James Bond novels to books by Robert Ludlum and Charles McCarry. Crime fiction author Duane Swierczynski, who blurbed the book, had this response to the scandal.
Readers and Occupy Wall Street protesters staged a reading of Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener at Zuccotti Park this week, organized by indie bookstore Housing Works.
Keith Richards has been honored with the Norman Mailer Prize for Distinguished Memoir for his bestselling autobiography, Life.
Inheritance, the new book by Christopher Paolini, went on sale this week and sold nearly 500,000 copies in its first day. (We still have plenty of books & tickets available for Paolini’s 11/19 in-store signing with us.)
The internet and smart phone sensation Angry Birds has finally hit the big time – Diamond Comics is set to release Angry Bird books! Watch out pigs, they’re coming for you in every medium now!
Scott Rudin, director of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, bought the rights to Jeffrey Eugenides’ new novel The Marriage Plot to turn it into a film.
Also headed for the big screen: Where’s Waldo?
Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Havisham.
That is all. Enjoy the weekend.
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