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    Mar 29, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. 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.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, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Book, Jeff Bezos

    2. Mar 29, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. 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 Amazon. And the reviews are not good.
    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

    3. Mar 28, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. 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.
    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: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Steve Jobs, Social Media, Book

    4. Feb 5, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. 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: Norman Lear, Personal Weapon Control, Kevin Costner, World War II (1939-1945), World War I (1914-1918)

    5. Jan 12, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  5. Part one: Zell's big gamble

    Aside from the business suit he was wearing, which he joked was rented for the occasion, Sam Zell was never more himself than when he appeared at a New York lender conference in April 2007 to hawk his $8.2 billion buyout of Tribune Co.
    Aside from the business suit he was wearing, which he joked was rented for the occasion, Sam Zell was never more himself than when he appeared at a New York lender conference in April 2007 to hawk his $8.2 billion buyout of Tribune Co. Slinging one-...

    Tags: Private Equity, Prices, Auction Service, Entertainment, Bankruptcy

    6. Jun 27, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. 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.
    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: World War II (1939-1945), William Randolph Hearst, Economy, Business and Finance, Wars and Interventions, Hearst Corporation

    7. Aug 15, 2012 |Story| LA Canada

  7. Piece of Mind: Remembering Prince Philip's visit to La Cañada

    Sometime between last week's musings about bears freely roaming our neighborhoods and Sunday's closing ceremony of the London Summer Olympics, I came across a nearly 30-year-old account of a visit to La Cañada by a member of the British royal family who...

    Tags: John Denver, Imperial and Royal Matters, Summer Olympics, James Stewart, Prince (music artist)

    8. Aug 10, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. 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 where cold air pools, the microclimate is surprisingly suitable for apples, which were grown there on a modest scale in decades past. The possibility was clear on Monday when Cecilio Marquez and his crew harvested Galas from an 8-acre orchard, leased from a couple who bought the property from Otis Chandler, publisher of The Times from 1960 to 1980.
    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: Livestock Farming, Farms, Genes and Chromosomes, Apples

    9. Mar 27, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  9. 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......
    10. Apr 20, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. 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.
    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: AIDS, Economy, Business and Finance, Radio, Sailing, Civil Rights

    11. Apr 20, 2012 |Story| Daily Pilot

  11. Jeff Chandler

    Obituary for Jeff Chandler
    Obituary for Jeff Chandler January 18, 1942-April 15, 2012 Jeff Chandler passed away peacefully on April 15, 2012, at his home in Rancho Santa Fe, California, surrounded by his family. He was first diagnosed and treated for prostate cancer in 1998 and had...

    Tags: Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Jeff Chandler

    12. Jan 31, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  12. Book news: Phil Jackson, Largehearted Boy, Goodreads ditches Amazon

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    Basketball, book blogs, and e-books in today's book news....
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