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Thursday, July 29, 2010 - Page updated at 01:53 p.m.

Amazon CEO hopes new Kindles stoke sales

Jeff Bezos isn't just confident you'll want a Kindle e-book reader. The CEO of Amazon.com is bracing for a future in which you'll also want ones for your kid heading to college, your spouse in a book club and perhaps even Grandpa.

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Novelist Anne Rice says she's leaving Christianity

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Monday, July 26

Authors criticize agency's e-book deal with Amazon

Evanovich switches publishers, signs 4-book deal

Sunday, July 25

A Seattle connection to the massive Google Books project | Lit Life

Saturday, July 24

'Fur, Fortune and Empire': How the fur trade drove the exploration of America | Book review

'Kraken': China Miéville's fantasy of London in a squid-obsessed apocalyptic frenzy | Book review

Fresh voices in science fiction: Karen Lord, Eleanor Arnason and Amelia Beamer

'Fly Away Home': Jennifer Weiner's novel of a mother, two daughters and a timeout from every day life | Book review

'The Most Powerful Idea in the World': the invention and ascension of steam power | Book review

Third Place Books best-sellers: Larsson's trilogy leads the list

Best-sellers: Nora Roberts, Michael Lewis and the third book in the 'Dragon Tattoo' trilogy

Thursday, July 22

'Father of the Rain': the primal desire for a parent's love | Book review

Author appearance, artists reception with an octopus theme at the Richmond Beach Library

Amazon snags exclusive deal for e-editions

E-sales big for Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy

Wednesday, July 21

'Dracula's Guest': a superb collection of Victorian vampire stories | Book review

Tuesday, July 20

Amplified edition of Ken Follett novel released

Boys trail girls in reading; can fart jokes help?

Monday, July 19

Local books: 'Border Songs' in paperback; life strategies from Pete Carroll

Audiobooks of 4 Woody Allen works set for release

Sunday, July 18

A Q&A with author Ivan Doig, whose latest novel is 'Work Song' | Lit Life

Saturday, July 17

'The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet': David Mitchell's Japan-set historical novel | Book review

Books can help with urban chicken farming

'Brilliant': how artificial light helped create the modern world | Book review

'Extra Lives': the medium, message and meaning of video games | Book review

This week's best-sellers: Cronin, Junger, Evanovich, Larsson

2 new books recount tales of contemporary Alaska adventures | Book review

Best-selling authors at Seattle's Magnolia's bookstore: Larsson, Mortenson and Lawson

"Three Cups of Tea" author Greg Mortenson influences U.S. military in Afghanistan

 



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