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 "The total revenue generated by e-book sales in the U.S. in 2012 was $3.04 billion, a 44.2% increase over the year before. That gain was announced in the preliminary year-end report released Wednesday by BookStats, a joint statistics project between the Assn. of American Publishers and the Book Industry Study Group." (Carolyn Kellogg)

 "A shift in the art market away from the gallery show experience prompts Los Angeles art doyenne Margo Leavin to draw up an exit plan for her venerable shop." (David Ng)

 "MOCA's Jeffrey Deitch rejects the idea that he has courted celebrity sizzle and populist appeal at the expense of serious scholarship." (Reed Johnson)

 "Writer Jonah Lehrer resigned from the New Yorker on Monday after admitting that he had fabricated quotes from Bob Dylan in his nonfiction book "Imagine: How Creativity Works." The book has been recalled by publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt." (Carolyn Kellogg)

 "The late, great Pop artist has hovered somewhere in nearly every exhibit conceived by MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch in the last 18 months. Enough, already!" (Christopher Knight)

 "Along with millions of idealistic young men who were cut to pieces by machine guns and obliterated by artillery shells, there was another major casualty of World War I: traditional ideas about Western art." (Reed Johnson)

 "The museum's ouster of curator Paul Schimmel and the celebrity-art interplay pursued by director Jeffrey Deitch is indicative of a greater, ongoing cultural conversation." (Mary McNamara)

 "The Google Doodle of the day is dedicated to street artist and activist Keith Haring in honor of what would have been his 54th birthday." (Jamie Wetherbe)

 "After speaking out against the Whitney Biennial, the Occupy Wall Street movement has now set its cross hairs on another art world institution -- the Frieze Art Fair in New York." (David Ng)

 "Kenneth Price was among the first generation of iconoclastic L.A. artists to attain international stature. His work with glazed and painted clay was 'resolutely original' and redefined contemporary sculpture." (Christopher Knight)

 "I have a different answer to the question "Why soup?" - one that I don't believe has been proposed before now. It takes some explaining. But the short answer is this: Soup was essential studio slang, the conversational lingo among New York School painters when they talked about their work." (Christopher Knight)