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Last year, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc. learned that a popular iPad application based on a book could drive sales of both. Now the publisher will see whether the reverse works: a book based on an iPad app.

This follows a decision by Penguin US to withhold new e-book titles from libraries.  

Prior to the September 11 attacks and the stock market slump, one of the hottest policy issues debated by technology scholars was the so-called racial "digital divide," a term concocted to portray "haves and have nots" in the world of the Internet.

Libyans are celebrating the freedom to read whatever they want in a post-Gaddafi world. Last week, bagpipers and VIPs congregated in the library of the Italianate Royal Palace for a ceremony marking the unbanning of books, the Toronto Star reported.

G.P. Putnam's Sons acquired two new novels in Paretsky's bestselling V.I Warshawski series. Ivan Held, president of G.P. Putnam's Sons, and G.P. Putnam's Sons executive editor Christine Pepe negotiated the deal with Paretsky's longtime agent, Dominick Abel, for North American, audio and e-book rights.

Creative Nonfiction, the magazine founded in 1993, has launched Creative Nonfiction Books. Called a "natural extension of the magazine's mission," Creative Nonfiction Books will initially focus on anthologies with contributions from multiple authors, offering multiple perspectives.

The Perseus Books Group will make "a wide array" of its titles available through the Espresso Book Machine, and its 250 distribution clients will also be able to offer titles through the machine. Perseus follows HarperCollins as the second major trade house to offer a selection of its titles through EBM.

Recorded Books will publish audiobooks of the 2011 National Book Awards winners in three categories: fiction winner Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (February 28), nonfiction winner The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt (which released earlier this year), and young people's literature winner Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai (April 15).

The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc. (RLPG) has launched a new Web site to encompass all of its publishing programs: www.rowman.com. The site features the company's ten main imprints: AltaMira Press, Bernan Press, Government Institutes, Ivan R. Dee, Jason Aaronson, Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield Education, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Scarecrow Press, and Taylor Trade Publishing.

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