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iBooks Bestsellers: Collins Stays on Top
Suzanne Collins's Mockingjay was the top selling paid book in Apple's iBooks store for the week ended December 2. For the second week in a row, the closer in Collins's Hunger Games trilogy took the #1 spot, followed by Veronica Roth's Divergent, which ousted the previous runner-up, Sycamore Row by John Grisham. All three books in Roth's Divergent series landed in the top 10. more » »

NPR Books Debuts 'The Book Concierge'
In an effort to break from the year-end listing of best books that so many news and culture outlets release, NPR Books has produced the Book Concierge, a Web site and mobile app that gives readers an unusual tool to sort through over 200 recommended titles from 2013. The Book Concierge lets a reader sort through a list organized by both title, and category. more » »

THE ROUNDUP

Iconic S.F. Store Closer to Being Saved: Marcus Books, one of the country's oldest African American-run bookstores, may be able to stay indefinitely in its San Francisco location under a new agreement that the owners have reached with the couple who purchased the bookstore property earlier this year.

New Indie Store for Durham : Letters, a new bookshop opening in downtown Durham, N.C., will be selling mostly used and rare books, and some selections of new titles.

21 Best Lines of 2013 : From some of the year’s most enjoyable books.

How I Write: James McBride : The newly crowned National Book Award winner for Fiction tells The Daily Beast about his pad in New York City, being able to write anywhere, and rewriting everything—even his emails.

Introducing O.W.L.S.: Waterstone's response to the Amazon drone announcement.

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