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Amazon.com chief executive Jeff Bezos yesterday announced the launch of Kindle, an e-book reader that his company has spent the last three years developing. Kindle, which retails for $399, weighs 10.3 ounces and can hold two hundred books at once.
Sony Corporation announced yesterday the launch of the Sony Reader, a device for reading electronic books. The $350 Reader, which weighs nine ounces and is roughly the size of a trade paperback book, can hold approximately eighty digital books.
The finalists for the first Dylan Thomas Prize were announced today.
The National Book Foundation announced yesterday that poet Adrienne Rich and editors Robert Silvers and Barbara Epstein (posthumously) will receive special honors at the National Book Awards ceremony on November 15.
The MacArthur Foundation announced today that fiction writer George Saunders and creative nonfiction writer Adrian Nicole LeBlanc are among the twenty-five recipients of this year’s “genius” fellowships.
On September 14 the judges of the 2006 Booker Prize announced a list of six finalists.
Five hours of color video footage featuring fiction writer Eudora Welty was recently discovered in the media archives of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
The Academy of American Poets recently announced the finalists for the 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. The $25,000 award is given annually for a book of poems published during the previous year.
Slowly but surely, the independent press Host has established a reputation as a publisher of literary translations from countries such as Brazil, Chile, Poland, Belgium, and Uruguay.
