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Daily book biz round-up, March 19

One last news round-up before the weekend:

• Amazon plays hardball with Simon & Schuster, Penguin, HarperCollins, and Hachette
• Amazon unveils Kindle for Mac. (Meanwhile, cats and dogs form truce, start working together to overthrow humans.)
• Is new Kindle app a victory for Amazon or Apple?
• Apple might not have much content ready for iPad launch
• Ian Rankin finds literary circuit to be full of “bitching and backbiting“
• Shane Koyczan reflects on his Olympics experience
• If you’re going to write about Parisian fabrics, get a lawyer first
• Joe Sacco becomes first graphic novelist to win Ridenhour Prize for “truth-telling”
• Bloomsbury group archive sheds new light on Virginia Woolf’s death
• Wanna see the future of book scanning? Check this out