Topic: Books And Literature
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission is investigating whether e-book publishers owned by Lagardere, Pearson Plc, News Corp and two other firms fixed prices with Apple Inc, blocking rivals and hurting consumers.The decision by the European Commission to open an investigation Tuesday ...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission is investigating whether e-book publishers owned by Lagardere, Pearson Plc, News Corp. and two other firms may have colluded with Apple to block rivals via their pricing deals.The decision by the European Commission to open an ...
(Reuters) - Amanda Knox, who was cleared of murder and freed from prison by an Italian court in October, has hired a prominent Washington, D.C.-based lawyer as she considers possible book deals, her spokesman said on Monday.Knox, 24, has retained attorney Robert ...
Judy Lewis, who learned as an adult that she was the illegitimate daughter of classic Hollywood stars Clark Gable and Loretta Young, has died at the age of 76, according to her daughter.Young became pregnant with Lewis during the filming of "The ...
Publisher Simon & Schuster is releasing an electronic edition of Ray Bradbury's classic science fiction novel "Fahrenheit 451" after the 91-year-old author lifted his objections to a digital version."The publication in digital form comes as part of a new publishing agreement that ...
Like God before it, the novel is dead, or so we are told."The book can't compete with the screen," Philip Roth, the old master, has said.The hegemony of digital media is now assured - our culture given over to what the novelist ...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden is the only place the new Hollywood version of best-selling crime novel "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" could have been shot, director David Fincher said on Monday.The film, which premieres on December 21, stars Daniel Craig as ...
Blogger Yoani Sanchez denounced the travel restrictions and censorship imposed on dissidents like her in communist Cuba, as she introduced her latest book at a Miami book fair via telephone.Sanchez, named by Time magazine as one of the world's 100 most influential ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Charles Dickens will be feted around the world next year in literature, film, theater, music and art, underlining his international cultural impact 200 years after his birth.The author of classics like "Oliver Twist," "Great Expectations," "Bleak House" and "A ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jesmyn Ward won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday for "Salvage the Bones," about a poor Mississippi family confronting Hurricane Katrina, while Stephen Greenblatt took the nonfiction prize for "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern."Ward, ...
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