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Book publisher Hachette and entertainment powerhouse Amazon are locking horns over e-book pricing. Amazon wants to lower the prices of e-books, citing higher readership and high price elasticity, while Hachette wants to avoid a possible price war.
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Vancouver -
"Tour of Chinatown in Singapore," "Obscurity" and "Don't trust clones or cousins" are but a few of the quirky and fun topics on the latest episodes of Fiction Frenzy TV VLog show.
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Amazon.com may soon offer a new "Kindle Unlimited" subscription service for $9.99 per month that gives subscribers unlimited access to over 600,000 titles. What does this mean for new authors?
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"Video logging or VLogging on YouTube is a new form of entertainment," says James Edwards, author and Fiction Frenzy TV VLogger.
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Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, famed Colombian journalist, novelist, short story writer and screenwriter Gabriel Garcia Marquez has passed away at the age of 87 in his Mexico City home.
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A frenzy of indie artists vlogging to viewers from all over the world in AR Films new show "Fiction Frenzy TV." Two new episodes showcasing indie authors and musicians were released on "Fiction Frenzy TV"'s YouTube channel this month.
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Dutch writer and comedian Herman Koch's novel "Summerhouse with Swimming Pool" follows hot on the heels of "The Dinner", a study of racism, madness and death in an outwardly respectable middle-class ...
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Savannah -
The 2014 festival featured best-selling authors and home-grown celebrities. Fans of writers such as Mitch Albom, the Deen brothers, A. Scott Berg, Melanie Benjamin, and Wally Lamb came to the "Hostess City of the South" to meet their favorite authors.
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Savannah -
On Valentine's Day, Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays with Morrie and new novel The First Phone Call from Heaven, delivered the keynote address at the 2014 SBF. The festival brings dozens of authors and thousands of book lovers to Savannah each year.
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Pennsylvania born Melissa F. Miller was living the dream of many — working at a big international law firm in downtown Washington, D.C.
Her husband, also an attorney, was working at a different firm.
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Richmond -
The "Sundance for Books”, Vivalogue Publishing and Black Bond Books held the first Raindance Book Festival which celebrates and supports local Canadian authors. Organizer Lynn Duncan was passionate about giving Canadian local authors a chance to shine.
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Toronto -
A decade in the making, Cambridge professor Andrew Preston's "Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy" (Knopf Canada), won the Charles Taylor Prize. The Announcement came during a luncheon at King Edward Hotel.
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Savannah -
Bestselling author James Patterson's remarks focused on storytelling and what he's passionate about, including the importance of getting kids to read.
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The end of the holiday season may leave many with happy memories, but for others, it can be dark indeed. A new anthology of short Irish fiction is hoping to address the spectre of suicide, and help suicide charity Console at the same time.
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Toronto -
A librarian's routine day at work took an exciting turn when he discovered a surprise tucked between the pages of a dog-eared copy of Plato's "Republic": a greeting card signed by famed author Jorge Luis Borges.
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Toronto -
To write is to breathe. For the authors on the short list for this year's Charles Taylor Prize, that statement is realized as you listen to the five discuss how their books came into being.
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Dundee -
Ten of the world's top crime writers are competing to have a new morgue and research facility in Scotland named after them.
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Baker City -
On July 8, the 2011 Oregon Book Awards author tour arrived at the Crossroads Art Center in Baker City, Oregon. The visit was part of a state-wide tour for three published Oregonian authors who were awarded for outstanding excellence in the literary arts.
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A new website that compares writing samples with those of popular authors has the Internet and literary community buzzing.
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Author and broadcaster Studs Terkel has died at the age of 96. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for his book The Good War, which featured people's memories of World War II.
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The Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), and Google announced a settlement agreement on behalf of authors and publishers worldwide that expands online access to millions of in-copyright books and other written materials.
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This is the 40th year that the Booker Prize, now the Man Booker Prize, has been awarded. Five men and one woman are vying for the award.
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Christies In New York are about to auction off a giant collection of important literature works including special signed editions from even Charles Dickens.
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Do you still have "A RAGE OF ANGELS", "MASTER OF THE GAME" or 'IF TOMORROW NEVER COMES" lying around the house?
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OVIEDO, Spain (voa) - American Playwright Arthur Miller has become the third foreign writer and the first American to receive Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias Award for Literature.
The 87-year-old writer was honored for significant contributio...
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LONDON - The 2001 EOJ Awards, a competition to reward excellence in online journalism, was launched today by the organisers of the annual NetMedia conference in London.
The awards, now in their third year, were set up in recognition of the
hu...
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GENEVA (dpa) - For many Swiss citizens playwright Friedrich Duerrenmatt was more of a notable denigrator of his own country than an internationally-respected author.
In November 1990, not long before he died, Duerrenmatt shocked bourgeois Switzerla...
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MCLEAN, Va. - IndyPublish.com launches its global publishing services and online community for authors that was announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Based in McLean, Virginia, U.S.A., IndyPublish will enable writers to cost-effectively and quickly pu...
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Books on sports, music, and media line the shelves in Nishi's Discovering Columbus; there are also books of poetry, including a volume of Walt Whitman's work, Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" and Obama's "The Audacity Of Hope." The books further Nishi's theme of a diverse, culturally potent America that is both broad and inward-looking.
Three self-published authors answer questions and provide advice
Books of some Nigerian writers
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