Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Filed in News , The Eclectic Lover Posted on April 30, 2010 @ 8:41 am 0 comments

The Wall Street Journal has the latest on the agency pricing dispute between Penguin and Amazon.  Looks like Amazon is selling some non-bestseller Penguin hardcovers for $9.99.

Amazon announced a new update for their Kindle that will allow users to organize their books and allow sharing “book passages” from the Kindle to Twitter and Facebook.


The Romantic Times Booklovers Convention is currently taking place in Ohio.  I wish I was there, but I’ve had to settle for following along on Twitter.  The hashtags #RT10 and #RT2010 are giving me a glimpse of what I’m missing.  


Laura Bush’s memoir, Spoken From the Heart, was obtained early by the NY Times breaking a Scribner embargo.  


Crown Publishers made public that they will be publishing former President George W. Bush’s memoir, Decision Points, this November.


MediaNet announced they will expand from digital music and video distribution into ebook distribution.


MobyLives had a very interesting article about Orlando Figes and his confession to writing harsh Amazon reviews.  





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