Quill & Quire » Book links roundup: U.S. threatens Apple and publishers with lawsuit, Audible hires A-list celebrities, and more

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By Sue Carter Flinn
March 9, 2012
11:30 AM

Filed under: book links , Apple, bookselling, Charles Dickens, CLA, film, Gabriel García Márquez, lawsuits, Toronto, YA

Book links roundup: U.S. threatens Apple and publishers with lawsuit, Audible hires A-list celebrities, and more

Apple and five U.S. publishing houses may face antitrust lawsuit
Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Dustin Hoffman, and other celebrities record book series for Audible
Video: Can bookstores maintain the same loyalty as record shops?
Torontoist reflects on Ernest Hemingway’s time in Toronto
Gabriel García Márquez celebrates his 84th birthday
*World’s oldest film of a Charles Dickens’ character discovered

*Clarification, March 8: The film is of a Dickens’ character, not of Charles Dickens

Correction

Not the “World’s oldest film of Charles Dickens” – he was dead long before film. It’s the world’s oldest film of a Dickens story or character.
Scflinn

Thanks, Correction. The Guardian’s headline also makes it sound as if Dickens was the filmmaker: “World’s oldest Charles Dickens film discovered.”

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