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Morgan James on Facebook

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Morgan James in Deal with Scribd to Sell E-books

Morgan James titles will now be available for readers on Scribd.com.  Scribd is a rising “social publishing company” that makes titles easily accessible to the 60 Million readers subscribed.  Currently only bestselling titles are available, but very soon, all 500 titles will be loaded and ready for readers. Scribd is a safe and convenient way [...]

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Inside the Reported Kindle Sales Explosion

Inside the Reported Kindle Sales Explosion

Kindle is dominating the book retail industry, according to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who says that; “Kindle sales are now 35 percent of books where we have Kindle editions.”  Many were skeptical of these results, but upon further investigation, the possibility exists that the release of the Kindle DX has sparked an increase in Kindle [...]

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Amazon Releases SuperKindle

Interesting but vague details were given in a press conference regarding the Kindle DX recently.  For those who don’t know, the Kindle DX, which is the second model of the original Kindle, is an electronic device that can be used to download and read books on the go.  This new Kindle DX has a display [...]

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Closure of the book review sections of the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Atlanta Journal Constitution

John McMurtrie has been editor of the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review since October 2008, and in his three-month tenure has seen the world of publishing deteriorate. With the closure of the book review sections of the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the Chronicle is one of the few [...]

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Borders Buys Another Month

Borders announced yesterday that they have extended the deadline by one month on both the repayment of their $42.5 million senior secured term loan to Pershing Square, as well as the “put” to require Pershing to purchase their Paperchase subsidiary for $65 million. Both deadlines have been extended to February 16. In late November when [...]