Books With 140 Characters
New York Times
Oh, and we don't meet once a week to engage in high-minded literary discourse. The conversation never ends. As soon as the New Yorkers are going to sleep, the Australians are reaching for their books. All of this is courtesy of 1book140, a Twitter book club I started last May in conjunction with The Atlantic magazine. ...
New York Times
Oh, and we don't meet once a week to engage in high-minded literary discourse. The conversation never ends. As soon as the New Yorkers are going to sleep, the Australians are reaching for their books. All of this is courtesy of 1book140, a Twitter book club I started last May in conjunction with The Atlantic magazine. ...
PCWorld
By John P. Mello Jr., PCWorld May 18, 2012 8:39 AM Another publisher has settled with the states in a case involving e-book price fixing. Simon & Schuster has agreed to work out a settlement (PDF) with 29 states, the District of Columbia, ...
Books, authors and all things bookish
Los Angeles Times
Iconic American author Philip Roth will headline the National Book Festival in Washington, DC, this fall. Roth, now 79, has won the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award twice, the Pulitzer Prize once, and received piles more ...
Aussie book industry celebrates its best
Ninemsn
Anna Funder has taken top honours at the Australian Book Industry Awards with her first novel, All That I Am, winning Book of the Year. The book was also awarded Literary Fiction Book of the Year at a special dinner at Sydney's the Ivy Room on Friday ...
Quebecor Media Strikes New ebook Partnership
MarketWatch (press release)
MONTREAL, QUEBEC, May 18, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Quebecor Media Inc. is happy to announce a new partnership with ReadBooks SAS, a France and Quebec-based company specializing in multi-language ebook libraries, software and consulting services.
'Born in Kenya': Obama's Literary Agent Misidentified His Birthplace in 1991
ABC News
Obama's former literary agency misidentified his birthplace as Kenya while trying to promote the then-Harvard Law grad as an author in 1991. According to a promotional booklet produced by the agency, Acton & Dystel, to showcase its roster of writers, ...
ABC News
Should College Students Be Forced To Buy E-Books?
Forbes
So I was intrigued when a representative of McGraw-Hill e-mailed that Tom Malek, an executive from the company's higher ed division wanted to write a guest post about a plan to bring down those costs with e-books. Full disclosure: As the parent of two ...
The Future of Books en Español
Fox News
Over 67000 people attended the second Spanish-language book fair in Los Angeles May 11 – 13, known as “LeaLA,” or “Read It” in Spanish, nearly twice the attendance of the previous year. The organizers of the event, the International Book Fair of ...
New Book Captures Medical Doctor's Best Advice
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Now he brings his wisdom to even more people in his new book For the Health of a Woman & the Story of One Tree Hill (published by Trafford Publishing), a collection of advice offering an education on preventing illness and injury.
BOOK REVIEW: 'It Worked For Me'
Washington Times
(Alas, his publisher didn”t provide an index so you'll have to read the book to see if you're mentioned.) One could dine out on his stories for quite a while. One of my favorites concerns the woman “in a local mall” who approached him in the parking...
Washington Times
Simon & Schuster settles e-book antitrust suit with state AGs
CNET
Simon & Schuster is the third of the five publishers accused of illegally fixing e-book prices with Apple's help to settle an antitrust suit brought by 29 states. by Greg Sandoval May 17, 2012 1:00 PM PDT Follow @sandoCNET Simon & Schuster, ...
Book Review: The Cry of Havoc: Part One, Life Descending by John Hennessy
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
John Hennessy has entered into this realm with his new book, The Cry of Havoc a 426 page, self-published paperback, that promises to be the beginning of a series titled "Life Descending." The author's style is such that pre-teens, teenagers and adults ...
Author shares audio of interview with Wright claiming he was offered money to ...
Fox News
Klein provided access to the tape to back up claims he makes in his book on Obama, "The Amateur." In one interview clip, Wright told Klein he still has "an email offering me money not to preach at all between the explosion of the media in the first ...
Book Review: In the Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural, Edited by ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Thankfully, there's books like In the Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural (Smart Pop series) around, which, with its quality observations and engaging arguments, is more than an entertainment; this unauthorized collection of essays is a way to ...
Two Books From Award-Winning Author Win Several Awards at The Paris, San ...
MarketWatch (press release)
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., May 18, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- It's always good to hear that your new book is about to debut with some good reviews and acclamations. The new bookcalled Do NOT Invent Buggy Whips by award-winning author Ken Thurber has ...
Back story: Author/activist Raj Patel on debt
San Jose Mercury News
He's best known for the books "Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System" (2008) and "The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy" (2010), a New York Times best-seller that got him a hilarious spot ...
Author Writes about New Life and New Experiences in a New Country
Seattle Post Intelligencer
In his new book, “Far Eastern Overexposure” (published by Trafford Publishing), author and American forestry professional Paul Tweiten accepts a job that casts him into anything but the familiar. In the summer of 1995, Tweiten leaves the United States ...
Teen Books Feature R-Rated Language
LiveScience.com
A significant portion of books geared toward teens contain curse words strong enough to earn a movie an R rating, new research finds. The study finds that 20 percent of bestselling teen books— usually those geared toward older teens — contain ...
'What to Expect When You're Expecting': The Movie and the Book's Heidi Murkoff
Daily Beast
Nicole LaPorte talked to its author. Back in the early '80s, when Heidi Murkoff was a pregnant 23-year-old looking for books to help guide her through her months-long journey, she was dismayed at what she found on bookstore shelves.
Daily Beast
Literary agent's 1991 catalog surfaces with claim Obama was born in Kenya
Daily Caller
“Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii,” said the 36-page catalog produced by a New York publisher, Acton & Dystel. Miriam Goderich, who edited the booklet, ...
Daily Caller
Swearing Characters More Popular, Attractive in YA Novels
ABC News
Thirty-five out of the 40 books had at least one swear word. She found that YA novels contained on average 38 instances of bad language, but one book had nearly 500 instances of swearing. Of note, the characters that were doing the swearing tended to ...
ABC News
'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk,' by Ben Fountain
New York Times
Whereas the precocious likes of Jonathan Safran Foer had books published practically the moment they got out of college, Fountain's first collection of stories, “Brief Encounters With Che Guevara,” did not appear until he was 48, in 2006.
Book review | 'Blood of Heroes' is the best true Alamo telling
Kansas City Star
Alamo literature fills small libraries, so it comes as somewhat of a surprise that the best book on the battle has just been published. James Donovan's “The Blood of Heroes” is the most comprehensive account of events leading up to the siege, ...
Kansas City Star
Books in the Kitchen | Apartment Therapy
By Cate West Zahl
There are various routes to take in terms of placement, style, and type of book to display. For some, the kitchen shelves are reserved exclusively for cookbooks, a pragmatic choice. Others decide to display a plethora of books and magazines ...
Main | Apartment Therapy
Observations on film art : PANDORA's digital book
By bordwellblog
Go to McGraw-Hill's extensive online information center for the book, including a sample chapter. [go to Amazon] .... So when I was asked to write pieces for various occasions, I tried to secure permission to publish them here as well. They too have wound up in the line-up on ...Another niche coming up: As virtual books have found a public, I've made a book designed primarily for an e-reader. Not bloviation .... Self-publication is a risk for both author and reader. If you decide to buy the ...
Observations on film art
Lauren Child's Favorite Books from Childhood - NYTimes.com
By By PAMELA PAUL
The author of "Ruby Redfort: Look Into My Eyes" shares the books she loved most when she was young. ... Her latest book, “Ruby Redfort: Look Into My Eyes,” is the first in Ms. Child's new detective series for middle grade readers. It arose from the Clarice Bean stories. Clarice was a devoted reader of the ... As part of an occasional series on authors' favorite children's books, we asked Ms. Child to tell us about her own favorites when she was a girl. Here, in her words: When I was a ...
ArtsBeat
Literary Agent Says 1991 Booklet was a Mistake
Breitbart News reports on a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency which describes the author as "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii." Miriam Goderich issued the following statement to ...
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
If publishers cannot control e-book retail prices, how should they set ...
By Chris Meadows
On the Columbia Journalism Review, Ryan Chittum has a rebuttal to a number of recent posts about e-book production costs and price, including the post by Mathew.
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
Plastic Logic Exits E-Reader Business It Never Really Managed to ...
By John Paczkowski
Wait. Wasn't Plastic Logic out of the e-reader business already?
AllThingsD
Independent Book Store Provides The Same Services As Amazon ...
The Espresso Book Machine sits in the middle of Harvard Book Store like a hi-tech visitor to an earlier era. A compact digital press, it can print nearly five million titles including Google Books that are in the public domain, as well as out of print ...
PSFK
By Evan Osnos
In his 2003 book, “The Age of Consent,” George Monbiot, the British writer and activist, wrote, “We are left to shout abuse, to hurl ourselves against the lines of police, to seek to smash the fences which stand between us and the decisions made ... Bremmer, who publishes articles and books at a pace with which some others tweet, is a non-partisan presence in the commentariat, known for his writings on how global emerging markets upset established political and corporate rhythms.
Culture Desk
In his 2003 book, “The Age of Consent,” George Monbiot, the British writer and activist, wrote, “We are left to shout abuse, to hurl ourselves against the lines of police, to seek to smash the fences which stand between us and the decisions made ... Bremmer, who publishes articles and books at a pace with which some others tweet, is a non-partisan presence in the commentariat, known for his writings on how global emerging markets upset established political and corporate rhythms.
Culture Desk
Carrier billing for Sprint: music, video and books can now be paid ...
By Bams Sadewo
Sprint now allows customers to make purchase of apps, music, video and books on Google Play and have them charged it on the carrier's bill. . ... Carrier billing for Sprint: music, video andbooks can now be paid through your phone bill ...
Android Authority
Breitbart.com: 1991 booklet by Obama's literary agent listed his ...
By Allahpundit
An author born in colonial Kenya sounds more worldly at first blush than one born in Honolulu, just as a law professor who's 1/32 Cherokee sounds more in tune with the minority experience in America than a white woman from Oklahoma.
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Obama Birther Rumor Debunked As Literary Agent Clarifies Mistake
Joe Arpaio: Birther Book Blasting My Obama Investigation Is 'Wrong,' But I .. ... Keep in mind that the articles here are penned by young authors, so please keep ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../obama-birthers_n_1526222.html
New book claims Michelle Obama prepared divorce ... - Daily Mail
Michelle Obama prepared divorce papers to separate from Barack Obama in 2000 following his disastrous attempt to win a House seat in Chicago, according to ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Michelle-Obama-prepared-divorce-pa...
Accomplished Author, Leah Gaye McCraney, Age 51; today's ...
Leah was an accomplished author and dedicated advocate for higher learning and student ...Read her full obituary and remember her in the guest book.
blog.al.com/spotnews/.../accomplished_author_leah_gaye.html
Flavorwire » 10 of the Weirdest Children's Book Authors of All Time
One of the authors influencing our childhood strangeness was prolific children's book and YAauthor Bruce Coville, who turned 62 this week, so to celebrate his birthday, ... Coville is the king of completely weird chapter books for young readers — his titles read like a ... Literary Editor / Weekend Editor; Marina Galperina ...
flavorwire.com/.../10-of-the-weirdest-childrens-book-authors-...
20 Popular Books Given Absolutely Horrible Titles! | SMOSH
How would some of the bestselling books ever have done if the publishers had gone with these titles instead? book horrible title hunger games cover ...
www.smosh.com/.../20-popular-books-given-absolutely-horri...
Books - Pinterest
There are some very practical ideas in this book and it has a certain freshness about it that really gets you thinking. A must for anyone wanting fresh and useful ...
pinterest.com/blanka2u/books/
Should College Students Be Forced To Buy E-Books?
TheStreet.com
Last month saw one of the biggest bets yet on e-books, when Microsoft announced that it will invest $300 million in a joint venture with Barnes & Noble that includes not only the bookseller's Nook e-reader and digital division, but also it college ...
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