NewsFactor - Amazon.com, which sells practically everything, has agreed to buy Woot, an online discount retailer that offers only one product at a time. "Today," Woot CEO Matt Rutledge wrote in an open letter, "is a big day in Woot history" because "I woke up to find Jeff Bezos the Mighty had seized our magic sword." The terms of the agreement were not announced....

Amazon.com Inc. has purchased Woot.com but financial terms were not disclosed. Woot began in 2004 as a site that sold a heavily discounted item every day. Amazon spokesman Craig Berman says the Seattle-based online retailer expects to finalize the deal by the end of September....

The publishing industry is bracing for a mini political publishing boom as last week's turmoil in Canberra reverberates around the nation's bookshops....

What's Your Reaction? White House Executive Pastry Chef Bill Yosses had a very busy weekend. On Sunday, he gave a cooking demonstration at the American Library Association's annual meeting in Washington, to promote his terrific new cookbook, The Perfect Finish....

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Last week, ASCAP sent a fundraising letter to its members calling on them to fight “opponents” such as Creative Commons, falsely claiming that we work to undermine copyright.* Creative Commons licenses are copyright licenses - plain and simple. Period. CC licenses are legal tools that creators can use to offer certain usage rights to the [...]...

What's Your Reaction? Earlier this month, Glenn Beck did what precious few authors have tried and failed to do over the past four weeks: unseat Stieg Larsson from the top of the New York Times bestseller list....

This week, librarians from around the country have gathered in Washington for the annual meeting of the American Library Association to meet with authors, share experiences and discuss topics ranging from budget cuts, branch closings and staff reductions, to technology upgrades and innovations....

LibreDigital, the heavily backed electronic book and newspaper distributor, is buying e-commerce technology from News Corp.-owned HarperCollins, which it says will allow it to offer a "complete end-to-end solution for publishers looking to accelerate sales of e-books and digital content." LibreDigital has historically helped publishers deliver their content to e-readers and to digital bookstores ......

At the American Library Association Conference in Washington, D.C., attendees got a glimpse of the future of search as ProQuest unveiled the latest developments for its all-new platform. Â Highly anticipated for its promise to unify all ProQuest content in a single framework, the new platform will now include ProQuest Extended Search, a Serials Solutions technology that will enable libraries to ......