Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Book news for April 15th

Amazon had major search function problems on Monday
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-amazon14-2009apr14,0,3536538.story

Marlee Matlin comes out with a new book
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/04/14/2009-04-14_in_new_book_actress_marlee_matlin_claims_actor_william_hurt_abused_her.html

Information about Amazon’s Kindle 2
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2345251,00.asp

A story out of Baltimore about book store closings and what it means to the future of books
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/books/blog/2009/04/whats_happening_to_our_book_cu.html

A popular book “Kite Runner” was highly challenged due to content according to the American Library Association
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-0/1239796545250620.xml&storylist=entertainment