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Here’s something that you don’t see every day. There are now less ebooks for sale on Amazon than there were a few days ago. On Monday, Amazon stopped selling 4414 ebook titles from Independent Publishers Group over a pricing dispute.
IPG is one of the largest independent book distributors. They distribute for small and large independent publishers in the U.S. and internationally. [Read more…]
Someone out there apparently loves visiting their local libraries even more than the average citizen. Police seized about 2000 library books and numerous DVDs from a Vista, CA woman according to the San Diego Reader. [Read more…]
The battle for the 7-inch tablet has just gotten more exciting. Barnes & Noble hopes to cool the blistering hot sales of Amazon’s Kindle Fire by releasing a version of the NOOK Tablet priced at $199. [Read more…]
Amazon launched its 7-inch Kindle Fire tablet just three months ago. The tablet is the most successful non-iPad tablet so far with anywhere from 4 million to 6 million of the tablets being sold in about a month and a half of last year. [Read more…]
Ever wanted to get your picture taken with George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, or Teddy Roosevelt? Then hop on over to the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California. Admission is free today and actors posing as the presidents from Mount Rushmore will be available for photos and fun from 10AM to 5PM. The first hundred visitors to the library today even get a free piece of cherry pie. [Read more…]