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A federal judge late yesterday allowed a lawsuit against Apple and five major publishers filed by a Seattle law firm that has offices in the same building as Amazon.com to… 2 / Read more »

Carlos Fuentes, perhaps Mexico’s most celebrated writer, died on Tuesday in Mexico City. He was 82. Fuentes influence on Mexican literature was enormous, and along with Gabriel García Márquez, Mario… Read more »

There was a depressing article in the New York Times over the weekend about the rate at which novelists are expected to churn out books these days: two a year… 1 / Read more »

Darlings: Killed or murdered? Brian Boyd remembers Dmitri Nabokov UK authors are paid when libraries loan their print books, but not their ebooks Survey: Teens don’t like ebooks Britain catching… Read more »

When the Pulitzer Prize board decided not to present an award for fiction last month, independent bookstores were frustrated at the lack of a winner, which would usually give them… Read more »