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            <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/amazon-introduces-a-new-type-of-e-book/" class="common-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Amazon Introduces a Format for Shorter E-Books</a><br>
            E-readers and smartphones have brought big changes to the publishing industry, but Amazon.com is aiming to bring some more with a new format for...
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<a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/books/428261_146037-blogcritics.org.html?source=rss" class="common-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Will Technology Kill Book Publishing?</a><br>
            There has been much talk about the decline, and some say inevitable death, of the publishing industry as we know it today. Central to this argument...
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<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130504644&ft=1&f=1006" class="common-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Famed D.C. Book Store Co-Owner Carla Cohen Dies</a><br>
            A business owner who created something special in the world of books has died. Carla Cohen, the co-founder of Politics & Prose, died Monday. When...
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            A business owner who created something special in the world of books has died. Carla Cohen, the co-founder of Politics & Prose, died Monday. When...
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<a href="http://kdka.com/politics/obama.author.secret.2.1957236.html" class="common-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Attention-Seeking Author Hurls His Books At Obama</a><br>
            Yes, the publishing industry is reeling these days, but surely authors surely can find less disruptive ways to promote their newly published works...
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<a href="http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90782/7162401.html" class="common-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">China throws support behind national e-book industry</a><br>
            E-book industry criteria and a mechanism for e-book industry access will be established in the next several years, according to a document recently...
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<a href="http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/7161622.html" class="common-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Growth of e-book industry regulated</a><br>
            The country's first regulation to guide the development of the electronic-book industry was released by the General Administration of Press and...
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<a href="http://www.newsherald.com/articles/books-87608-banned-american.html" class="common-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">VIEWPOINT: Banning books, controlling minds</a><br>
            By JIM DICKEY PANAMA CITY Sept. 25 to Oct. 2 was national Banned Books Week. Every year, the American Library Association sponsors the campaign to...
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<a href="http://www.bclocalnews.com/news/104526309.html" class="common-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Banned Books Week brings Greater Victoria censorship challenges to light</a><br>
            As the American Library Association wraps up Banned Books Week, which highlights the freedom to read, the Canadian Library Association last week...
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<a href="http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1391&urltitle=Who%20Knew?%20Librarians%20Write%20Books,%20Too!" class="common-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Who Knew? Librarians Write Books, Too!</a><br>
            Writing and Publishing: The Librarian's Handbook (American Library Association, 2010), was prompted by a desire to acknowledge the many...
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<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/is-the-publishing-industry-doomed-2099796.html" class="common-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Is the publishing industry doomed?</a><br>
            Today, in the endless, cavernous halls of the Frankfurt Book Fair, British publishers and agents are dealing in next year's books. They're buying...
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<a href="http://www.nypress.com/article-21709-bash-compactor-writers-revolt.html" class="common-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Bash Compactor: Writers Revolt</a><br>
            The publishing industry is like a wartorn country these days: Everyone is either running for the hills or talking about a revolution. But who's...
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<a href="http://columbiachronicle.com/columbia-supports-fight-against-forbidden-books/" class="common-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Columbia supports fight against forbidden books</a><br>
            Classic literature is challenged and banished by public libraries and schools every year in violation of the First Amendment right to free speech...
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<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/03/BU7F1FLKC3.DTL" class="common-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Libraries turn to tech to keep patrons engaged</a><br>
            Libraries are tweeting, texting and creating apps for smart phones as they try to keep up with the biblio-techs - a computer-savvy class of people...
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            The former White House social secretary has a new job as chief executive of the Johnson Publishing Company, owner of Ebony and Jet magazines and...
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<a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazon_launches_facebook_e-commerce_store.php" class="common-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Amazon Launches Facebook e-Commerce Store</a><br>
            Amazon has just launched a Facebook e-commerce store, but sadly it's not a Facebook-enabled version of Amazon.com. Instead, the new store is...
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<a href="http://www.news-leader.com/article/20100930/NEWS04/9300358/-1/RSS" class="common-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Banned-book readings planned Friday at Drury</a><br>
            Students and faculty at Drury University will read selections from previously banned books on Friday to observe the American Library Association's...
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<a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_16208400?source=rss" class="common-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Harris: Zuckerberg as comic-book hero? Publishing industry in a revolution</a><br>
            Technologies like Apple's iPad and other tablets aim to change the way media is consumed, and Silicon Valley startups like FastPencil and Scribd...
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