KindleObsessed

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    Amazon Gets The Boot!   Target plans to stop selling Amazon Kindle e-readers and tablets, and has already removed the products from its website. The Verge reported that an internal Target memo said “the company will be removing Amazon hardware from its locations starting this month. Certain accessories will remain in stock, but shipments of Kindles themselves will cease as of May 13.” Target representative Molly Snyder confirmed the move, telling CNN that the retailer, which started selling the devices about two years ago, is “phasing out Kindles and Amazon- and Kindle-branded products in the spring of 2012.”
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    A Round Of Applause For Tor! By early July, all e-books published by Tor, Forge, Orb, Starscape and Tor Teen will be available DRM-free. DRM (digital rights management) is used mainly to combat piracy and makes it difficult to transfer an e-book from one kind of e-reader to another. Tom Doherty of Tom Doherty Associates, publisher of the imprints, which mainly publish science fiction, fantasy, fiction, mystery and military history, commented: “Our authors and readers have been asking for this for a long time. They’re a technically sophisticated bunch, and DRM is a constant annoyance to them. It
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    What’s In A Name… J.K. Rowling’s upcoming novel for adults will be titled The Casual Vacancy, the Bookseller reported, adding that it will be published worldwide on September 27 in hardcover, e-book, audio download and CD. Publisher Little, Brown called the novel a “blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising” tale of what happens in the English village of Pagford after parish council member Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly. “Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war.” – Rowling has also
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    Is Ann Patchett Influential ?   One of the nominees for Time Magazine‘s 100 Most Influential People of 2012 is Ann Patchett, author and co-owner of the new Parnassus Books, Nashville, Tenn. Time is allowing people to vote for one of the 100; its editors will pick the rest. To see more (and vote), click here. Polls close April 6. The nomination reads in full: “With books like 2001′s PEN/Faulkner winner Bel Canto and the new State of Wonder, Patchett has demonstrated a singular ability to write smart literary novels that are also big best sellers. And when
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     Big News for BEA!   For those of you planning a trip to BEA in June, they have just announced a new event! Neil Young, who has just announced his plans to write a memoir is hosting an Authors lunch! The event is free for all BEA attendees, (as long as you are sporting a BEA badge) and is scheduled to take place June 6th at noon in the Special Events Hall in the Javits Center. Also planning to make an apperance: Stephen Colbert, Jo Nesbo (Phantom) John Green (The Fault In Our Stars) Lois Lowry (The Giver)
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    The Book Thief Hit The Big Screen!   The best things in life always come in pairs…don’t you thing? Peanut butter and jelly! Mac and Cheese. Mel Gibson and Prozac, but nothing could be better than this… Downtown Abbey and The Book Thief! That’s right ladies and gents, the beloved YA novel “The Book Thief” written by Marcus Zusak which follows a young girl from Germany during WWII who steals books as a way to cope with reality is coming to the big screen! And…who better to bring those beautiful words to life than “Downtown Abbey’s” very own
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  The Whitney Awards! What are the Whitneys? “The Whitneys are an awards program for novels by LDS authors. Elder Orson F. Whitney, an early apostle in the LDS church, prophesied “We will yet have Miltons and Shakespeares of our own.” Since we have that as our goal, we feel that we should also honor those authors who excel and continually raise the bar. The Whitney Awards honor novels in the following categories: General Fiction, Romance, Suspense/Mystery, Speculative Fiction, Youth Fiction, Historical, Best Novel of the Year, and Best Novel by a New Author. Novels can be nominated by any
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  The Passing of a Legend   Obituary Note: Jan Berenstain Jan Berenstain, who with her husband, Stan Berenstain, wrote and illustrated the Berenstain Bears books for 50 years, has died. She was 88. She suffered a severe stroke on Thursday and died Friday without regaining consciousness, her son Mike Berenstain told the Associated Press. Stan Berenstain passed away in 2005. Stan and Jan Berenstain, both Philadelphia natives, met as 18-year-olds on their first day of art school in 1941 and married in 1946. The first Berenstain Bears book, The Big Honey Hunt, was published in 1962, and they added
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Joe Wright’s ‘Anna Karenina’ Film adaptations are not a new thing, (especially when it comes to a book like Anna Karenina) but what IS new is the way they are being filmed.  Joe Wright, (director of Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, and Hanna…just to name a few) has decided to make Anna his new pet project, and he is doing so in a way that is shocking the cinema world.  Instead of using all of the resources mother natures (and a black American Express card) can provide him, he has decided to film Anna Karenina on ONE STAGE! That’s right…say goodby
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