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Steve Jobs authorized biography coming in 2012

HILLEL ITALIE Yahoo! News 04/11/2011
Choices Schmoices: Manhattan Book Store Sells Only One Book

In a sly bid for publicity, Andrew Kessler opened a book shop in New York's West Village, where on every shelf you will find only books by... Andrew Kessler.

Steve Jobs authorized biography coming in 2012

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has finally agreed to participate in a book about his life. Simon & Schuster announced Sunday that Walter Isaacson's "iSteve: The Book of Jobs" will be published in early 2012. Isaacson has been working on the long-rumored biography since 2009 and has interviewed Jobs, members of his family, colleagues at Apple and competitors.

Amazon Says E-Book Sales Outpace Hardcovers

GEOFFREY A. FOWLER And JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG The Wall Street Journal 07/19/2010
Julian Assange says signed 1.1 million pounds in book deals

WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange said in an interview published Sunday he had signed deals for his autobiography worth more than one million pounds (1.2 million euros, 1.5 million dollars).

Amazon Says E-Book Sales Outpace Hardcovers

Amazon.com Inc. said it reached a milestone, selling more e-books than hardbacks over the past three months. But publishers said it is still too early to gauge for the entire industry whether the growth of e-books is cannibalizing sales of paperback books, a huge and crucial market.

Barnes & Noble Buys an E-Book Retailer

MOTOKO RICH New York Times 03/05/2009

Rare private collection of Hebrew books goes on display in New York

Ula Ilnytzky San Jose Mercury News 02/12/2009
Barnes & Noble Buys an E-Book Retailer

Bowing to the growth in demand for e-books, Barnes & Noble, the world’s largest chain of bookstores, has acquired Fictionwise, an online retailer of electronic books.

Rare private collection of Hebrew books goes on display in New York

A rare trove of 11,000 Hebrew books and manuscripts went on display at Sotheby's in New York last week as the auction house seeks to find a buyer for what is considered the greatest collection of Judaica in private hands.

Six more books on Lincoln

Randy Dotinga and Marjorie Kehe CSmonitor 02/09/2009
 
Six more books on Lincoln

In addition to being president, Abraham Lincoln was also a writer, commander of troops, assassination target, family man, and peer of other great men. The 16th president can be examined from many angles and, as we celebrate the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth, biographers have overlooked few of them.