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In virtual fair, download 2.5M books for free (The Times of India)
Over 2.5 million books will be available for free at a virtual book fair — the fourth eBook Fair sponsored by a number of e-libraries including Project Gutenberg, The World Public Library and Internet Archive.
Bay Area Bound - new books by local authors (San Francisco Chronicle)
Notable books, due out in July, by Bay Area authors. Nonfiction And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir, by Joan Baez (Simon & Schuster; $16 paperback) Free: The Future of a Radical Price, by Chris Anderson (Hyperion; $26.99) Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent...
Summer reading books are at the library (The Clarksdale Press Register)
DEBORAH COLE/The Clarksdale Press Register Clarksdale Municipal School District summer reading books have arrived and are ready to be checked our at the Carnegie Public Library. Looking over some of the required reading material are, back row, from left, Rashamond Kemp, Courtney Tutwiler, Marchello Kemp, Markquez Kemp, and Darius Tutwiler; seated, Mona Barrett, Carnegie Children's librarian, ...
Vietnam to destroy 30,000 sex-selection books (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Vietnam, concerned that too many boys are being born, will destroy more than 30,000 copies of books instructing couples on how to have a baby of their desired sex, state-linked media said Friday.
A treasure house of books (The Peninsula)
DOHA: For children, students and adults who want to spend their summer mostly at home, books can be the best way to make the most of their free time and enrich their knowledge by exploring the world through the printed word.
Amazon Wants Patent For Inserting Ads Into Books (Slashdot)
theodp writes "Three Amazon inventors set out to correct what they felt was a real problem: that 'out-of-print or rare books ... typically do not include advertisements ... the content is fixed and, therefore, has not been adapted to modern marketing.' Their solution is spelled out in newly-disclosed Amazon patent applications for On-Demand Generating E-Book Content with Advertising and ...
Vietnam seizes gender books to fight sex imbalance (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Vietnam's government has seized scores of locally published books on how to choose a baby's gender as it faces a problem of boys outnumbering girls.
Vietnam to pulp sex-selection books (BigPond News)
Vietnam will destroy more than 30,000 copies of books instructing couples how to have a baby boy.
Vietnam to pulp sex-selection books (AAP) (Yahoo!7 World News)
Vietnam, concerned that too many boys are being born, will destroy more than 30,000 copies of books instructing couples how to have a baby of their desired sex.
U.S. launches formal investigation into Google's digital books settlement (Los Angeles Times)
The Justice Department says a proposed agreement with authors and publishers over Google's project to scan millions of books into a digital format raises antitrust concerns. The Justice Department on Thursday said it had launched a formal antitrust investigation into the proposed settlement over the Google Inc. project to scan millions of books into a digital format.
