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Amazon, a Friendly Giant as Long as It’s Fed [13 Jul 2014|01:01am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/technology/amazon-a-friendly-giant-as-long-as-its-fed.html

Is resistance to Amazon futile in the book publishing world? Its battle with Hachette has many on edge.
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P. N. Furbank, Biographer of E. M. Forster, Dies at 94 [13 Jul 2014|03:04pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/arts/p-n-furbank-biographer-of-e-m-forster-dies-at-94.html

Professor Furbank, who wrote widely, produced an account of Forster’s life that is regarded as one of the 20th century’s best biographies.
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The Working Life: Bookstore Owner Takes On a Union, Shocking a Liberal Bastion [13 Jul 2014|03:56pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/14/nyregion/bookstore-owner-takes-on-a-union-and-a-liberal-bastion-reels.html

The owner of Book Culture bookstores, two Morningside Heights fixtures, stunned customers by firing several workers who had voted to unionize.
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Books of The Times: ‘Price of Fame,’ a Biography of Clare Boothe Luce [13 Jul 2014|08:55pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/14/books/price-of-fame-a-biography-of-clare-boothe-luce.html

“Price of Fame” is the second volume of Sylvia Jukes Morris’s study of Clare Boothe Luce.
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Dungeons & Dragons Has Influenced a Generation of Writers [13 Jul 2014|09:47pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/14/books/dungeons-dragons-has-influenced-a-generation-of-writers.html

Dungeons & Dragons, the first commercially available role-playing game that is now 40 years old, influenced numerous writers and taught them the art of storytelling.
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