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		<title>Amazon rumored to be opening bricks and mortar stores</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are mumblings in the blogosphere that Amazon is to open bricks and mortar stores. Launch.it offers four possible scenarios: The first scenario: the store could just be a showroom with display units of appliances and &#8220;geniuses&#8221; running around showing you the top 25 vacuums in action. Or the top 10 juicers actually making juice. &#8230; <a href="http://www.pocketbooks.org/amazon-rumored-to-be-opening-bricks-and-mortar-stores/">Continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>B&amp;N &#8220;declares war&#8221; on Amazon, stating that it will not stock Amazon titles in its stores</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barnes &#38; Noble has decided not to stock books published by Amazon in their physical stores. According to Jaime Carey, B&#38;N&#8217;s Chief Merchandising Officer in an email to Bloomberg Businessweek senior reporter Brad Stone: &#8220;Barnes &#38; Noble has made a decision not to stock Amazon published titles in our store showrooms. Our decision is based &#8230; <a href="http://www.pocketbooks.org/bn-declares-war-on-amazon-stating-that-it-will-not-stock-amazon-titles-in-its-stores/">Continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reader Review: &quot;The Healing&quot;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jeanette (Marietta, GA): I read The Healing in two sittings it is a fascinating story of plantation life at the beginning of the Civil War. Granada, a slave newborn child whom the plantation mistress takes from the slave mother to fill-in her grief over the lost of her own child, is raised in the &#8230; <a href="http://www.pocketbooks.org/reader-review-the-healing/">Continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reader Review: &quot;The Uncommon Reader&quot;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Cloggie Downunder (Thirroul NSW Australia): The Uncommon Reader is a novella by novelist and playwright, Alan Bennett. The story starts with the Queen coming across the mobile library van parked near Buckingham Palace, where Norman, a young man from the kitchens, is choosing a book. After making small talk with the driver/librarian and the &#8230; <a href="http://www.pocketbooks.org/reader-review-the-uncommon-reader/">Continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Audiobooks introduce $25 unlimited monthly subscription.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Simply Audiobooks launched a new service today offering unlimited audio books for a $25 monthly subscription. The catch is that because the books are streamed rather than downloaded you have to be connected to the internet to listen to them; also the current selection of 11,000 books is considerably more limited than some other audio &#8230; <a href="http://www.pocketbooks.org/audiobooks-introduce-25-unlimited-monthly-subscription/">Continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew Miller wins Costa Book of the Year with his 6th novel &quot;Pure&quot; set in 1785 Paris</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Novelist Andrew Miller has won the 2011 Costa Book of the Year, his first major literary award, for his sixth novel, Pure, set in pre-revolutionary Paris in 1785. Pure is published in the UK by Sceptre, the literary imprint of Hodder and Stoughton. It would seem that Pure does not currently have a publisher in &#8230; <a href="http://www.pocketbooks.org/andrew-miller-wins-costa-book-of-the-year-with-his-6th-novel-pure-set-in-1785-paris/">Continue reading</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pocketbooks.org/andrew-miller-wins-costa-book-of-the-year-with-his-6th-novel-pure-set-in-1785-paris/</link>
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		<title>Reader Review: &quot;The Sense of an Ending&quot;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Kim (Massachusetts): I devoured this book in a day. Like another reviewer, I find it difficult to describe this story. Much of it consists of the narrator ruminating over what memory is (or isn&#8217;t), which I sometimes found a bit annoying&#8212;and yet, his ruminations are the heart and soul of the story. He is &#8230; <a href="http://www.pocketbooks.org/reader-review-the-sense-of-an-ending/">Continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dead End in Norvelt wins prestigious Newbery Medal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos has won the John Newbery Medal at the American Library Association&#8217;s annual youth media awards. Read more on bookbrowse.com]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pocketbooks.org/dead-end-in-norvelt-wins-prestigious-newbery-medal/</link>
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		<title>Tablet and e-book reader ownership nearly double over the holidays</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the latest Pew Survey, the share of adults in the United States who own tablet computers nearly doubled from 10% to 19% between mid-December and early January and the same surge in growth also applied to e-book readers, which also jumped from 10% to 19% over the same time period. The number of &#8230; <a href="http://www.pocketbooks.org/tablet-and-e-book-reader-ownership-nearly-double-over-the-holidays/">Continue reading</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pocketbooks.org/tablet-and-e-book-reader-ownership-nearly-double-over-the-holidays/</link>
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		<title>Supreme Court upholds 1994 copyright law granting protection to foreign works, including Tolkien and Orwell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, the USA Supreme Court upheld a 1994 law granting copyright protection to a large number of foreign works that had been freely available in the public domain including books by J.R.R. Tolkien and George Orwell. According to The Wall Street Journal, Google had hoped that the high court would overturn the law: &#8220;Google &#8230; <a href="http://www.pocketbooks.org/supreme-court-upholds-1994-copyright-law-granting-protection-to-foreign-works-including-tolkien-and-orwell/">Continue reading</a>]]></description>
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