Pre-Civil War Baseball Team Card Going on Auction Block in Chicago

Pre-Civil War Baseball Team Card Going on Auction Block in Chicago

For decades, a circa 1860s Brooklyn Atlantics team baseball card was tucked away, first inside a secret drawer of a bedroom set and then between the pages of a photo album.

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Apple Music: Everything You Need to Know About the Launch

Apple Music: Everything You Need to Know About the Launch

Apple will officially enter the music streaming subscription market on Tuesday with the launch of Apple Music and its accompanying Beats 1 radio station. An estimated 41 million people paid for a streaming music subscription service in 2014, according to IFPI, a London-based recording industry trade group that represents more than 1,300 record labels. Apple's huge advantage: With more than 800 million iTunes accounts…

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Florida Man, Accused of Terrorism Based on Book Collection, Set Free

Florida Man, Accused of Terrorism Based on Book Collection, Set Free

The U.S. government had produced “snippets of information from various sources, out of context, to weave together a narrative of terrorist ideation,” a Florida judge said Friday, ordering the release…

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Carlos Slim scraps project with Donald Trump after Mexico insults

Carlos Slim scraps project with Donald Trump after Mexico insults

A television company controlled by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has canceled a project with real estate developer and TV personality Donald Trump after his comments insulting Mexicans, Slim's spokesman said on Monday. This is the third company to cut ties with Trump, who is seeking the Republican nomination for the November 2016 presidential election.

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Publish a Book and Change Your Life, or, Well, Maybe Not

Publish a Book and Change Your Life, or, Well, Maybe Not

If you were an attorney or an accountant and you said to someone, “I’ve been doing this job for two decades and am finally starting to make money at it,” people would look at you like you were crazy. The open secret is that literary fiction does not pay big dividends. At least not to most of its writers and publishers. Even with excellent reviews, there’s no guarantee that your book will sell.

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Bookstores Plan Rollout for Next Harper Lee Novel

Bookstores Plan Rollout for Next Harper Lee Novel

Booksellers are finding creative strategies for drawing in customers for the release of Harper Lee’s second novel, including midnight openings, Southern food and discussion groups.

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