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The scoop on unauthorized celeb books is fewer sales - San Mateo Daily Journal

NEW YORK — Put Angelina Jolie’s face on a magazine cover and sales will surely rise. Get her to write a memoir and it would be worth millions. But write a book about her, without her cooperation, and you’re taking ...

Amazon Sells More E-Books Than Hardcover Copies - NewsFactor Network

The introduction of Apple's iPad appears to have had little effect on Amazon.com's sales of Kindle e-readers. In fact, Kindle sales grew each month in the second quarter as Amazon lowered the price. And Amazon reports ...

Electronic books changing nature of reading - St. Petersburg Times

It was surprising to hear the news so soon, even for those of us who knew it was coming: Amazon.com announced in July that its sales of electronic books had zoomed past sales of hardcovers. In the second ...

ANA books $60 mln net loss in first quarter - Zimbio

Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) Friday said its quarterly net loss narrowed to 60 million dollars on last year and retained its full-year net profit forecast of 57 million dollars. The 5.25 billion yen first-quarter ...

Stieg Larsson Is First Author To Sell 1M E-Books - Ethiopian Review

Hugh Pickens writes “The Guardian reports that the late Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson, author of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, has ...

Is Barack Obama's presidency in peril? Books take a close look - The Ledger

"A Presidency In Peril." Robert Kuttner. Chelsea Green Publishing. $25. "No Apology. The Case For American Greatness." Mitt Romney. St. Martins. $25.99 Tell me Zsa Zsa Gabor, Tiger Woods, Elizabeth Taylor and Larry King ...

New books and media for LGBT families - Baywindows.com

It’s been a good year so far for books and media about LGBT parenting -- but not so much for items aimed at our children. Let’s take a look. She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Parenthood ...

Stieg Larsson passes 1 million Kindle milestone - Reuters

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Stieg Larsson, author of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", has become the first writer to sell more than one million Kindle e-books thanks to his popular mystery Millennium Trilogy ...