How much for that e-book?

How much for that e-book?
Chicago Tribune
Want to buy an e-book? What's a fair price? $12.99? $9.99? Ninety-nine cents? How about free? At this moment, no one knows how to price e-books: Not the publishers, retailers or authors. The government doesn't know either, but its antitrust attorneys ...

Book review: 'The Beginner's Goodbye' by Anne Tyler
Los Angeles Times
Anne Tyler's latest novel, 'The Beginner's Goodbye,' is a classic mix of the author's themes, most especially oddball characters and the turbulent nature of families and marriages. Anne Tyler's stories are filled with domestic travails, without flash ...

Book excerpt: Ron Guidry's relationship with Yogi
ESPN
by Harvey Araton In "DRIVING MR. YOGI," set for release Tuesday, Harvey Araton takes a look at the unique friendship between Yankees pitching great Ron Guidry and Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra, which resumes each spring when Guidry picks up Berra at ...

ESPN

In Brief: Apple, DoJ Near E-Book Pricing Settlement
Mobiledia
By Melissa Daniels | Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:42 am Apple and its e-book publishing partners are nearing final negotiations with the US Department of Justice, setting the industry up for pricing structure changes that will benefit consumers.

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Prices for eBooks on Kindle could tumble as deal in Apple book price-fixing ...
Daily Mail
The deal would call a halt to a deal struck by Apple which prevented publishers selling books via Amazon and other online stores at lower prices than via Apple's iTunes Store. The deal has seen prices for eBooks artificially inflated so that many cost ...

Daily Mail

Business Plus to Publish Organization with Heart! By Kip Tindell
MarketWatch (press release)
COPPELL, Texas, April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Business Plus, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing, announced today that it has acquired North American rights to publishORGANIZATION WITH HEART by The Container Store Chairman and CEO, ...

'Game of Thrones' author George RR Martin reads excerpt of upcoming book(+video)
Christian Science Monitor
At a Toronto event, George RR Martin read an exceprt from his upcoming book 'The Winds of Winter.' By Molly Driscoll / April 2, 2012 'Game of Thrones' author George RR Martin has refrained from setting a publication date for 'The Winds of Winter,' but ...

Christian Science Monitor

Video interview: Eloisa James, author of 'Paris in Love'
USA TODAY
I traveled to Paris almost 20 years ago, but this book enabled me to experience it again in a completely different way. As Eloisa puts it, a grand adventure should be "joyful" rather than "learned" and that's exactly the type of experience Paris in ...

Paris in Love: A Book Review
Huffington Post (blog)
One of my favorite romance authors, Eloisa James, just crossed over into nonfiction with her charming memoir of a year spent in Paris with her husband and two kids. The book, Paris in Love, published by Random House, is available on April 3 rd , 2012.

Gainesville Author Lived Hard Life, Wrote About the Same
The Ledger
Crews had long been a literary cult figure, particularly among young men and aspiring Southern writers. (OSCAR SOSA | THE NEW YORK TIMES) By COLETTE BANCROFT When I visited Harry Crews in Gainesville in 2008, he pointed at the tile floor on one side of ...

Carrie Brownstein, Harry Crews, 'Cooking With Poo,' more book news
Los Angeles Times (blog)
Carrie Brownstein will write a memoir to be published by Riverhead Books; its title and publication date have not yet been announced. Brownstein, who started her creative career as the guitar player in Sleater-Kinney, currently plays with the band ...

Inside the Circus: eBook Family Tree
Politico
This interactive glossary includes everyone mentioned in "Inside the Circus," the second eBook in POLITICO's Playbook 2012 series, who has a tie to a GOP presidential bid. For each entry, it shows the ties and staffing overlaps between today's ...

Pottermore sneak peek; Carrie Brownstein pens a memoir
USA TODAY
USA TODAY's Jocelyn McClurg highlights five books on sale this week, from Anne Tyler's The Beginner's Goodbye, to romance writer Eloisa James' memoir about moving her family to Paris. --Carrie Brownstein book:Portlandia star and Sleater-Kinney ...

A quick look at Titanic books
Houston Chronicle (blog)
“The story could not have been written better had it been fiction,” James Cameron notes in a new preface to a book about his 1997 film, which returns to theaters Wednesday. “The juxtaposition of rich and poor, the gender roles played out unto death ...

Houston Chronicle (blog)

The Book We're Talking About: 'Mudwoman' by Joyce Carol Oates
Huffington Post
Meredith Ruth (MR) Neukirchen is the first female president of an ivy league university, clearly modeled after the author's own place of work, Princeton. She is driving to upstate New York to deliver a speech about the Iraq war, which she is opposed to ...

Monday in Review: Bones, a Literary American Masters and More
Seattle Post Intelligencer
EQUAL WRITES: Their books are legendary, the movie adaptations iconic. But the two Pulitzer-winning Southern woman writers profiled in back-to-back American Masters documentaries on PBS - Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel and Harper Lee: Hey, ...

Paying to Get Your Child's Book Published
New York Times (blog)
In “Young Writers Dazzle Publisher (Mom and Dad),” on Sunday's front page, I explored a growing subset of self-published writers: children and teenagers. It turns out that hundreds of them are self-publishing books each year, often paying hundreds or ...

New book alleges OJ Simpson's son killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman
Fox News
The real killer is the gridiron great's troubled oldest son, Jason Simpson, the Texas gumshoe theorizes in his latest book, "OJ Is Innocent and I Can Prove It," due in stores Monday. Dear has spent 17 years deconstructing the murders of the retired...

Fox News

Canada: Islamic bookstores selling books that urge Muslims to ...
By Pamela Geller
Maududi was an influential Pakistani journalist, theologian and Muslim revivalist leader who wrote more than 120 books and pamphlets and lived from 1903 to 1979. He is described in the preface of one of the books as an author who ...
Atlas Shrugs

Justice Department publisher anti-trust investigation proceeds ...
By Chris Meadows
TeleRead - News and views on ebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics. HOME| · AROUND THE ... The settlement is expected to eliminate Apple's “most favored nation” status, which currently allows Apple to lower its prices for an e-book to match the lowest price the bookis available elsewhere. (Though the article ... CHRISTOPHER ALLEN HORTON on "Why Print-Disabled People Should THANK the Authors Guild, Not Picket It - Posted on April 2, 2012. "Well, I figured I ...
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Leah Konen: Young Adult Books Adults Will Love
By Leah Konen
Author Joel Stein argues that adults should read books written for adults, and stay away from any book marketed to children and teens, while Lev Grossman offers a defense of the genre, praising its rich storytelling, descriptive clarity and more.
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Flavorwire » Are Book Covers Different for Female and Male Authors?
By Emily Temple
The illustration might have been more conventional and included the slender fingers and wrist of a woman, had it not been designated a major literary undertaking.” Wolitzer posits that this is part of the reason that books by women sometimes get ignored by male readers: their feminine covers ”might as well have a hex sign slapped on them, along with the words: “Stay away, men! Go read Cormac McCarthy instead!”" We have to agree. To try to get a visual handle on her point, we've ...
Flavorwire

The Department of Justice: Looking out for a ... - Melville House Books
By Dennis Johnson
Reuters is reporting that the Department of Justice is nearing a settlement with Apple and five of the Big Six publishers being investigated for collusion on fixing the price of ebooks. Mind-fuckingly, the purported settlement, according to the ...
Melville House Books

On The Rules Of Literary Fiction For Men And Women
By The Huffington Post News Editors
On The Rules Of Literary Fiction For Men And Women. Marriage Plot. First Posted: 04/ 2/2012 10:27 am Updated: 04/ 2/2012 10:27 am. React. Inspiring Funny Typical Important Outrageous Amazing Innovative Beautiful. Read more. Books ...
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David Albert pans Lawrence Krauss's new book « Why Evolution Is ...
By whyevolutionistrue
But I was uncomfortable with this, for it's intellectually dishonest to critique those books by religious people, or people whom I don't know, and then give a pass to a book that I didn't like just because it was penned by a fellow atheist. So now I'll ...
Why Evolution Is True

After 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' What's Next for Self-Publishing?
The Atlantic
First-time author EL James was offered $5 million dollars last month for the movie rights to her self-published novel, Fifty Shades of Grey. James, a former TV executive based in London, published the first installment of the Fifty Shades trilogy as an ...

The Atlantic

Lost 'Star Trek' script stuck in cyberspace
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Its author, science-fiction writer Norman Spinrad, announced that it would become an episode of a popular Web series, "Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II," which features amateur actors in the classic roles of Capt. James T. Kirk, Mr. Spock and other crew ...

Expanding Options for Ebooks
InfoToday.com
And, a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Apple's software, called iBooks Author, lacks easy tools for multiple authors to collaborate on a joint textbook project. Since most books aren't written in isolation, ...

Amazon.com trying to wring deep discounts from publishers
The Seattle Times
Other online retailers, including Barnes & Noble and Apple, continue to sell digital versions of IPG's titles, enabling the distributor to resist Amazon's demands. "They want more margin than what is reasonable to give," IPG President Mark Suchomel ...

Temecula resident transitions from gossip blogger to novelist
Southwest Riverside News Network
Local author Cindy Bokma's recently released novel, "Here if you Need Me". (Contributed image) “I had a vivid imagination and still do to this day,” Bokma said. “With writing, I get to live in my own creative little world.” That passion for writing and ...

Forbes: Telling the Caribbean's Stories
Caribbean Journal
It seemed as if every week a newly-published book by a Jamaican author was being launched. This delightful explosion continues in 2012 with Valerie Wint's The Longer Run finding special resonance with me and undoubtedly many others.

Conflicting Ideologies and Entangled Narratives
Huffington Post (blog)
What intellectual tools can help to mediate between these competing narratives? In his 2003 book "Moral, Believing Animals," Christian Smith offers a dozen examples of contemporary metanarratives, each presented in about 200 words.

A Conversation with Glen Finland, Author of Next ... - Barnes & Noble
Dear Reader, In a warm, witty style punctuated by unconditional love and deep honesty, Glen Finland recounts her family's story of raising their autistic son, ...
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