LONDON (Reuters) – Christie’s shrugged off the euro zone crisis and slowing economic growth in 2011 to post record revenues, selling art worth 3.6 billion pounds, or nine percent more than in 2010.

Barnes & Noble has decided not to stock books published by Amazon in their physical stores, keeping the new publisher out of the country’s largest network of brick and mortar bookstores.

Bloomberg Businessweek senior reporter Brad Stone called it “a declaration of war,” breaking the news with a statement from B&N’s chief merchandising officer, Jaime Carey. The bookseller will offer Amazon titles in their online store. Last week, Amazon revealed that Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will distribute print books from Amazon Publishing.

Check it out: “Our decision is based on Amazon’s continued push for exclusivity with publishers, agents and the authors they represent. These exclusives have prohibited us from offering certain eBooks to our customers. Their actions have undermined the industry as a whole and have prevented millions of customers from having access to content. It’s clear to us that Amazon has proven they would not be a good publishing partner to Barnes & Noble as they continue to pull content off the market for their own self interest.” (Via Sarah Weinman)

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Officials at Claremont McKenna College announced Wednesday that the school submitted inflated SAT scores for several years to publications such U.S. News and World Report to boost its rankings. Claremont McKenna is ranked among the top 10 liberal arts colleges by U.S. News and has recently seen an upswing in popularity among applicants.

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This week, Apress needs a senior coordinating editor, while Barnes & Noble is hiring a manager of digital content. Random House is hiring a manager of national accounts in its online sales department, and Jones & Bartlett Learning is seeking a production specialist in its media services department. Get more details below and find additional job opportunities on mediabistro.com.

• Senior Coordinating Editor Apress (New York, NY)
• Manager, Digital Content Barnes & Noble (New York, NY)
• Production Manager Greenleaf Book Group (Austin, TX)
• Manager – National Accounts, Online Sales Random House (New York, NY)
• Production Specialist – Media Services Jones & Bartlett Learning (Burlington, MA)

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Emily Williams has left Publisher’s Marketplace to join Barnes & Noble as manager of international content and digital products for BN.com.

In her new role she will manage international content and digital content for Barnes & Noble’s e-commerce website. Williams served as digital content producer at Publisher’s Marketplace in 2011.

Prior to that she was a contributor to F+W Media‘s Digital Book World and before that she worked as a contributor to Publishing Perspectives. She also worked as a senior scout for Maria B. Campbell & Associates.

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – In the history of currency, earplugs have, unsurprisingly, never been widely used or accepted. So when a man offered Belgian artist Delphine Boël 10,000 earplugs for her print “The Source of Identity” at the Truc Troc contemporary art exhibit in 2006, her reaction was, “God, he’s crazy.”

Signing a blog post as “Pirate Coelho,” bestselling author Paulo Coelho has joined a promotional program at the infamous file sharing site, The Pirate Bay.

Coelho praised the piracy site and urged his readers to download his work on peer-to-peer file sharing sites. The decision has already generated hundreds of comments–what do you think?

Check it out: “The Pirate Bay starts today a new and interesting system to promote arts. Do you have a band? Are you an aspiring movie producer? A comedian? A cartoon artist? They will replace the front page logo with a link to your work. As soon as I learned about it, I decided to participate. Several of my books are there, and as I said in a previous post, ‘My thoughts on SOPA,’ the physical sales of my books are growing since my readers post them in P2P sites. Welcome to download my books for free and, if you enjoy them, buy a hard copy – the way we have to tell to the industry that greed leads to nowhere.” (Image via)

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