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Amazon announces it will buy book-recommendations site Goodreads
Amazon.com Inc., which started as an online bookseller before becoming the e-commerce behemoth it is today, is buying book-recommendations site Goodreads. Amazon announced the deal Thursday. The purchase price was not disclosed. Goodreads, a San...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Book, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Jeff Bezos
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Amazon's purchase of Goodreads panned -- on Goodreads
Over at the social reading website Goodreads, people take pleasure in writing reviews. Usually, they write about the books they’re reading. But in the last 24 hours, many have taken to reviewing Goodreads itself, and its sale to the book behemoth...
Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle
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Amazon goes social, acquires Goodreads
Amazon announced Thursday that it is acquiring social reading website Goodreads. The deal, which will be finalized in a few weeks, is the most prominent acquisition of a major book-focused startup in recent years. On Thursday afternoon, Goodreads...
Tags: Book, Social Media, Amazon.com Inc., Steve Jobs, Amazon Kindle
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NRA enemies list: Britney, Hallmark and the YWCA
Boy, the National Rifle Assn. sure is thorough. And thin-skinned. Richard Nixon’s renowned enemies list had 823 names of people and organizations, but as president, Nixon had scores of issues to grapple with and an entire world to be mad about...
Tags: Hallmark Greeting Card, Crime, Law and Justice, Geraldo Rivera, World War I (1914-1918), Julia Roberts
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George Randolph Hearst Jr. dies at 84; L.A. Herald-Examiner publisher
The demise of the Hearst newspaper empire in Los Angeles began in 1962 when publisher George Randolph Hearst Jr. abandoned the morning newspaper market.
Hearst and the company that owned the Los Angeles Times made what some viewed as a back-room deal: At...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Cancer, Television Industry, Hearst Corporation, Newspaper and Magazine
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From Ojai, crops of Gala apples and Howard Miracle plums
Most California apples are grown either well north of Los Angeles, in mountains, or near the coast, where cool winters and nights boost production and quality. Ojai, atrociously hot in summer, is better known for its citrus, but in some of its valleys...
Tags: Farms, Genes and Chromosomes, Livestock Farming, Apples
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Candidates go PG-13 on the press
Opinion L.A.It may become part of the decathlon known as the Republican road to the White House -– to get down and potty-mouth about the news media. Former Sen. Rick Santorum's base is probably cheering him to the rafters after he...... -
Jeffrey Chandler dies at 70; part of family that built the Los Angeles Times
Jeffrey Chandler, an influential member of the family that built the Los Angeles Times and the last person with the Chandler name to play a significant role in the newspaper's ownership, has died. He was 70.
Chandler, who had been a radio station owner...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Rush Limbaugh, Companies and Corporations, Newspaper and Magazine, Media Industry
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Book news: Phil Jackson, Largehearted Boy, Goodreads ditches Amazon
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Times Woman of the Year – Anais Nin
The Daily MirrorI stumbled across this article while searching for something else (research is like that) and was stunned. When I started at The Times in the late 1980s, the Women of the Year Awards were viewed as something of a joke,...... -
Tip Poff, July 17, 1932
The Daily MirrorJuly 17, 1932: I’ve been meaning to post some of the Tip Poff gossip columns that The Times used to run in the movie/drama pages of the 1930s. The Times experimented with the column and by 1939 was calling it...... -
Climbing Mt. Bassett
The Daily MirrorSept. 27, 1978: James Bassett dies. am climbing Mount Bassett. Itâs as if Iâm halfway up and have come across the abandoned camp of an expedition that vanished many years ago while trying to conquer some snowy, fog-shrouded peak. Abandoned equipment...
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