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The e-book-pricing contracts that college libraries and publishers are now renegotiating are essentially bets worthy of Atlantic City or Las Vegas: Libraries are gambling against publishers in an ...

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If you missed the “Upstairs Downstairs” tour at the Gamble House earlier this month, there’s still a chance to have a lasting look inside the servant’s quarters and the rest of the historic Arts and ...

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THE GAMBLE: GENERAL DAVID PETRAEUS AND THE AMERICAN MILITARY ADVENTURE IN IRAQ, 2006-2008 By Thomas E. Ricks Penguin, $27.95, 394 pages REVIEWED BY JAMES S. ROBBINS The conduct of war is seldom linear ...

Blockbuster book deals have been around for a long time; well-known politicians and big players in the business world regularly pull in millions of dollars for their books, and recently, comedians ...