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Florida on Monday enacted a new law requiring out-of-state online merchants to collect and remit sales tax, which supporters say will bring in an additional $1 billion a year that previously went uncollected. Here’s what it means to consumers. The law, which takes effect on July 1, is mainly concerned with what are called “marketplace facilitators” platforms such as eBay, Etsy, Overstock and Amazon Marketplace through which independent sellers promote and sell their goods. More from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and NBC-2.
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2020 Florida Book Awards winners announced
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With its 14th annual competition now complete, the Florida Book Awards has announced winners for books published in 2020. More than 100 eligible publications were submitted across the 11 categories of competition.
Coordinated by Florida State University Libraries, the Florida Book Awards is the nation’s most comprehensive state book awards program. It was established in 2006 to celebrate the best Florida literature. Authors must be full-time Florida residents, except in the Florida nonfiction and visual arts categories, where the subject matter must focus on Florida.
Setting the standard for future cash prizes, the “Gwen P. Reichert Gold Medal for Children’s Literature,” now in its seventh year, was awarded to Miami resident Silvia Lopez for “Queen of Tejano Music: Selena” (Little Bee Books). This $1,000 cash award is in memory of Gwen P. Reichert and serves
In recognition of the centennial of Sarasota County, the library system has chosen “Suncoast Empire: Bertha Honoré Palmer, Her Family and the Rise of Sarasota” as its One Book One Community selection for 2021.
Frank A. Cassell’s 2017 biography tells the story of Bertha Palmer, who was one of the wealthiest women in America when she traveled in 1910 to the small settlement of Sarasota from Chicago at age 61. Over the years, she invested in cattle and farming, turned marshlands, pine forests and tropical jungles into neighborhoods. She was a society queen who advocated for social reform and succeeded as an entrepreneur.
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