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Betting on books
Jane Hanauer wants to make one thing clear: She does not detest Barnes & Noble. The owner of Laguna Beach Books operates one of the few surviving independent bookstores in Orange County — a region that, unlike Seattle or San Francisco, doesn't...
Tags: Kathy Griffin, Books and Magazines, Authors, Services and Shopping, Clubs and Associations
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Barnes & Noble says holiday sales disappointing, Nook has new investor
Bookstore chain Barnes & Noble said Friday its holiday sales look disappointing and that publisher Pearson Plc took a 5% stake in its Nook e-reader business. In a regulatory filing, the New York company said early reports indicate its holiday sales fell...
Tags: Books and Magazines, Microsoft Corporation, Services and Shopping, Financially Distressed Companies, Amazon Kindle
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Does IVC call for obsolete books?
My grandson is attending Imperial Valley College. Last semester he had to buy a computer book titled “Discovering Computers 2011.” He was informed this book cannot be sold back to the bookstore because last semester was the last year this book...Tags: Books and Magazines, Microsoft Corporation, Services and Shopping, Microsoft Windows, Rentals
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Still insisting on its innocence, Macmillan settles DOJ e-book case
Publisher Macmillan announced Friday that it is settling its case with the Department of Justice in its lawsuit over e-books. The DOJ had accused five major publishers and Apple of conspiring to set e-book prices; Macmillan was the last publisher to agree...
Tags: Prices, Books and Magazines, Services and Shopping, Google+, Media Industry
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As Barnes & Noble shrinks, small bookstores are born
Yesterday, I reported here on a number of literary voices lamenting the store closures announced by the bookstore chain Barnes & Noble. But perhaps this is a case of: “The bookstore is dead! Long live the bookstore!” The idea of selling...
Tags: Books and Magazines, Barnes & Noble
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Caldecott, Newbery Medals awarded by American Library Assn.
The American Library Assn. announced its 2013 book award winners Monday at its annual national conference, held this year in Seattle. While the best-known awards are the John Newbery Medal and the Caledecott Medal, there are dozens of awards, each of...
Tags: Steve Jobs, Matthew Shepard, Theft, Emergency Incidents, Book
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Friends of the Libraries: Seeing the world on the page
For some reason, I have been reading a number of books set in foreign countries. Three that I will recommend are "Say You're One of Them" by Uwem Akpan (Africa), "Finding Nouf" by Zoe Ferraris (Saudi Arabia) and "Death in a Strange Country" by Donna...Tags: Arts and Culture, Ernest Hemingway, Authors, Books and Magazines, Mountains
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In the Kindle era, a bookstore hangs on
A long time ago, some poor writer took on the task of novelizing the screenplay of the Burt Reynolds-Dyan Cannon private eye movie "Shamus," filmed in a Hollywood age when leading men had chest hair and big mustaches instead of sallow vampire skin and...
Tags: Nazareth, Arts and Culture, Dyan Cannon, Authors, Books and Magazines
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A little Latino bookstore in Palm Springs says adios
The last little Latino bookstore in downtown Palm Springs is in its last days. Until recently things were going pretty well for the owners, Luciano Ramirez, a retired teacher and school administrator, and his wife, Tonia.When they opened Latino Books...
Tags: Books and Magazines, Services and Shopping, Nora Roberts
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Echoes From The Past
The first black-and-white Zenith television set arrived at our Berlin area farm home in 1952 during my preschool years. In the early 1950s we were fortunate if we had two or three stations to choose from and along with Leave it to Beaver, Howdy...
Tags: Books and Magazines, Services and Shopping, News Media, Entertainment, Gene Autry
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Booksellers' catch-22
If you've ever walked into a Barnes & Noble, you have no doubt noticed the new releases pyramid front and center. If a book is in the news or written by a celebrity author, you will find it in this display. I always give it a quick circle and often...
Tags: Authors, Books and Magazines, Magnificent Mile, Services and Shopping, Joseph Heller
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Winter book preview
Looking ahead to books in 2013 is a little like predicting the Los Angeles weather: sunny, pleasant, better than average. The fiction fields are fertile, the nonfiction skies clear and the young adult books are fresh like spring rain. We'll see new...
Tags: Arts and Culture, The Getty, Books and Magazines, Authors, Thom Mayne
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