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Sharon Osbourne branded ‘most evil, s**tiest woman’

Lead singer of Motley Crue, Vince Neil, has in his new autobiography said that Ozzy Osbourne’s manager/wife Sharon is the most evil, s**tiest woman he has ever met. Neil, 49, and Sharon, 57, have reportedly been at each other’s throats for years, but now the singer has decided to express his feelings openly in his [...]

Hachette Joins List of Publishers Rejecting Amazon’s E-Book Pricing

Publishers are growing increasingly vocal about their displeasure with e-retailer Amazon.com’s flat $9.99 per title pricing structure for e-books. This week, Hachette Book Group joined publishers Macmillian and HarperCollins in requesting control to employ different, and higher, price points.

Following a decision by Macmillian to demand setting their
own rates for e-book prices, David Young chairman and CEO of Hachette Book
Group issued a memo outlining the companys desire to control pricing. In the
memo Young explains a new pricing model has been under consideration f…


Apple’s biggest product “iPad” tablet unveiled

Book publishers predicted that Apple’s iPad would boost interest in online reading, however, observers doubted the novel tablet computer would immediately revolutionize electronic publishing like the iPod changed music listening.
At the unveiling of the new device, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs demonstrated a new digital bookstore and application, iBooks, in an effort to reinvent the way [...]

“Twilight” Graphic Novel Due In March

Twilight: The Graphic Novel: Volume 1 will be released in hardcover for $19.99 on March 16. On Wednesday, Yen Press, the graphic novel imprint of Hachette Book Group, announced that it will publish the first volume in a graphic novel adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s smash Twilight Saga. The work contains selected text from Meyer’s original [...]