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Also: Kobo will release a waterproof e-reader; new poems from Idra Novey and Marylen Grigas.(Image credit: David Guttenfelder/AP)
View ArticleBook News: Floating Library To Open On New York's Hudson River
Also: Sheila Heti on making art; Nick Cannon enters the (already heavily populated) world of celebrity children's books.(Image credit: Courtesy of Beatrice Glow)
View ArticleBook News: Unfinished Tennessee Williams Play Found
Also: Edith Grossman on literary translation; a poem for James Foley.(Image credit: Dan Grossi/AP)
View ArticleBook News: Agent Denies That Oscar Pistorius Is Writing A Memoir
Also: writers ask Amazon's board to end battle with Hachette; notable books coming out this week.(Image credit: Siphiwe Sibeko/AP)
View ArticleBook News: Listen To The First-Timers Nominated For PEN Prize
A night before the winner's declared, the writers shortlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize read their works. Listen here first. Also: Thomas Pynchon might soon be coming to the big screen.(Image...
View ArticleJustices Will Decide Whether Workers Must Endure Unpaid Inconvenience
Some employees who worked for an Amazon fulfillment warehouse in Nevada had to wait nearly 25 minutes after each shift to be screened by security. They want to be compensated for that time.(Image...
View ArticleReport: Amazon To Open Brick-And-Mortar Store
The Wall Street Journal reports the online retailer's store will also serve as a mini-warehouse that could provide same-day delivery the New York region.(Image credit: Lionel Bonaventure /AFP/Getty...
View ArticleBook News: Big Names And A Few Surprises Among National Book Award Finalists
The prominent literary prize narrowed its nominees to 20 writers — a mix of heavyweights and many new ones. And across the Atlantic, Richard Flanagan won Britain's biggest award, the Man Booker...
View ArticleAmazon To Hire 80,000 Holiday Workers
An increase in customer demand is prompting Amazon to add 14 percent more temporary workers this holiday season than it hired last year at this time.(Image credit: Ross D. Franklin/AP)
View ArticleAmazon Wants To Put A Listening Speaker In Your Home
Are you ready to bring an eavesdropping device that's connected to the cloud into the privacy of your abode? Amazon thinks so, as it introduces Echo, a speaker that takes your questions and...
View ArticleAmazon And Hachette Reach A Deal On E-Book Pricing
The multiyear agreement, which will take effect in early 2015, ends a months-long stalemate between the online retail giant and the publishing powerhouse.(Image credit: Mark Lennihan/AP)
View ArticleBook News: In Support Of Persecuted Colleagues, Writers Turn To Letters
In the run-up to the Day of the Imprisoned Writer, authors have written open letters to several imperiled authors around the world. Also: A recap of the truce between Amazon and Hachette.(Image credit:...
View ArticleDebate: Is Amazon The Reader's Friend?
Two teams of editors and writers, including best-selling author Scott Turow, face off over Amazon's influence over the publishing industry, in the latest debate from Intelligence Squared U.S.(Image...
View ArticleIs Amazon Planning Hundreds Of Bookstores? Analysts Doubt It
A mall real estate executive let slip that Amazon plans to build up to 400 walk-in stores. Analysts were skeptical, and now the executive says his comment wasn't intended to represent Amazon's...
View ArticleAmazon is buying Roomba vacuum maker iRobot for $1.7 billion
iRobot is most famous for the circular-shaped Roomba vacuum, which would join voice assistant Alexa and Ring security cameras among smart home features offered by Amazon.(Image credit: Elise Amendola/AP)
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