The collaboration lifts off in November when authors visit Goddard for two days of presentations, tours and one-on-one sessions. In a program that gives new meaning to the concept of the publishing launch, Tor/Forge Books and NASA together will publish 'science-based, commercial fiction books' that will develop out of meetings between Tor/Forge authors and scientists and engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Hilarious book trailer of the day: Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch (Voice), in which the star of Glee goes into a Barnes & Noble and does the kind of promotion for her book-including re-shelving and reordering-that most authors only imagine. Disappointed customers received an e-mail from B&N canceling their order 'due to unexpected customer demand for this item,' but the fury of the Internet was soon unleashed on Twitter under the hashtag #barnesandnoble and through an online petition. But, clearly, there is still a huge market for a cheap, okay tablet.' Unfortunately, the HP TouchPad fire sale proved to be a bad deal for Barnes & Noble, which joined the Web frenzy by offering the device for $100 and selling out within an hour, Business Insider reported. And who wants to be a tablet player and is very good at competing on price? Amazon,' Business Insider reported, noting that 'no one is able to build a tablet that's as good as the iPad and price-competitive. HP's extremely successful, if bargain basement, strategy of dumping its discontinued TouchPad tablet on the market this week for $99 'shows how to compete with the iPad: price.

At least 504,760 valid signatures must be submitted to the Secretary of State by September 27. Amazon is the only reported donor thus far to the More Jobs Not Taxes committee, which is gathering signatures to put an initiative repealing the tax on the June 2012 ballot. The additional $2.25 million was donated August 10, according to an August 19 campaign-finance filing. The campaign launched in July with a $3 million contribution ( Shelf Awareness, August 8, 2011). Amazon added $2.25 million to the war chest of the More Jobs Not Taxes campaign committee in August in its ongoing effort to overturn a California law that requires online retailers to collect sales taxes on purchases by state residents, Bloomberg reported.

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