New Obama book: A danger to his image?

New Obama book: A danger to his image?
Christian Science Monitor
A new biography of President Obama is about to hit book stores (and Amazon and WalMart and iTunes and wherever else people get their long-form printed material these days.) Is this in-depth tome – “Barack Obama: The Story,” by award-winning historian ...

Christian Science Monitor

Author tracks down Obama's former girlfriends
Chicago Sun-Times
(The book will be released on June 19.) He was “guarded, controlled,” a man who built a “veil” around himself, Cook wrote in her journal as she puzzled over how they could be so close — yet so far apart at the same time. “When she told him that she ... 

Young Barack Obama in Love: A Girlfriend's Secret Diary | Politics ...
Alex was interested in postmodern literary criticism, and her arguments brimmed with the deconstructionist ideas of Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher.
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'Between Shades of Gray' – probably not the book you're thinking of
Christian Science Monitor
Young adult author Ruta Sepetys says her novel 'Between Shades of Gray,' about a Lithuanian girl sent to one of Stalin's work camps, is frequently being mixed up with EL James' erotic trilogy. By Molly Driscoll / May 3, 2012 Author Ruta Sepetys says ...

Christian Science Monitor

Geekology 101: Free Comic Book Day has arrived!
Freeport Journal-Standard
By Gary Darling For those that don't know the history of Free Comic Book Day, you should Google it, because I am not going to spend all my column going over it. Though it is an interesting read. Well, every first Saturday in the month of May, ...

Google Argues for Dismissal of Authors' Book-Scan Lawsuit
Bloomberg
Google announced in 2004 a plan to digitally scan books from public and university libraries to provide short snippets of text to people who use its Internet search engine. The Authors Guild, individual authors and publishing companies sued in 2005, ...

Google wants authors group out of NY library case
Wall Street Journal
AP NEW YORK — Google Inc. has urged a judge to toss The Authors Guild out of litigation over the future of the world's largest digital library. A lawyer for Google told a Manhattan judge Thursday that authors cannot be represented as a group because ...

E-reader war escalates as Target boots Amazon's Kindle from stores
New York Daily News (blog)
BY Alexander Nazaryan In yet another sign that Amazon is becoming a pariah in the publishing world, the retailer Target said on Wednesday that, following Mother's Day, it would no longer sell the Kindle, the Amazon e-reader that currently holds more ...

Book boost: 'Fifty Shades of Grey' helps sell 'Between Shades of Gray'
Macleans.ca
The steamy book about a billionaire and a woman who likes to be spanked has been hogging the No. 1 spot on the New York Times paperback bestseller list for eight weeks, but the other book is no literary slouch: Between Shades of Gray was a Wall Street ...

Macleans.ca

BOOK TALK: Steve Coll on Exxon Mobil's oil empire
Reuters
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Coll's new book "Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power" sought to delve inside the Irving, Texas-based company to see how it thinks and what drives its decisions. The heavily-researched and reported story ...

Latest Nook e-reader is apt to make customers glow
Boston.com
At $139, it's the best “pure'' e-book reader available. There are no frills, like an MP3 music player or a Web browser - just sleek and simple access to millions of books, magazines, and newspapers, even in the dark. It's a strong comeback for Barnes ...

Surge in E-Book Sales Balances Paperback Fall
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Nick Clayton Despite competition from other forms of entertainment people are still readingbooks in huge numbers, and old-fashioned print still dominates the market. According to the UK “Publishers Association's Statistics Yearbook” consumer e-book ...

True believers tout 'Free Comic Book Day'
The News Herald
On “Free Comic Book Day,” held each year on the first Saturday in May, participating comic bookshops across the known galaxy and adjacent alternate dimensions give away comics absolutely FREE (hence, the name) to anyone who comes into their stores.

Blurb, The Custom Book Printing Startup, Is Tossing Its Hat Into The ...
By Colleen Taylor
The San Francisco-based company, which lets anyone write and publish a physical book at relatively affordable prices, has built a profitable business with more than 100 staff and more than a million paying customers since it launched to the public six years ago. But according to ...Blurb is expanding into the e-book space this summer, gradually rolling out a software platform developed in-house that will allow people to create and distribute multimedia-enabled digitalbooks. So why is ...
TechCrunch

Child Endangerment? Disturbing Pro-Vegan Children's Book ...
The book's author, Ruby Roth, who lives in Los Angeles and is raising her seven-year-old step-daughter as a vegan, says she expected the book to cause a stir if only because veganism remains a subculture. She defends its content and says ...
Signs of the Times

Amid Controversy, Scientists Publish Recipe For Making More ...
By Rebecca Boyle
"The findings described here will advance our understanding of the mechanisms and evolutionary pathways that contribute to avian influenza virus transmission in mammals," theauthors write. To understand what's so dangerous about this ...
Popular Science - New Technology,...

My 5 Must Read Business Books
By Daniel Scocco
Over the years I've read my share of business books. Some were terrible, some were fine, and some were pretty good. Among all of those there are a handful which changed the way I thought about business, for the better. Those I consider ...
Daily Blog Tips

Volkswagen's Tiny Car Comes With Glove-Box Book About Tiny ...
By David Gianatasio
Auto dealers long ago mastered the art of putting the squeeze on consumers, but DDB London cleverly tightens the vise in a campaign introducing Volkswagen's Up! small car to the U.K. As a special treat for Up! drivers, the agency produced ...
Adweek : Advertising & Branding

Where are today's literary nomads? | Books | guardian.co.uk
By Robert McCrum
Henry Miller, author of Tropic of Cancer. Like several writers of his generation, Henry Miller sought artistic authenticity in poverty. Photograph: Anthony Barboza/Getty Images. Whatever happened to the garret and the gutter? The great literary ...
Blogposts | guardian.co.uk

Book Igloo Held Together By Natural Forces And Knowledge ...
By Ada Teicu
Pages face outwards to shape a color-white-color dynamic, while the spines showing titles of the salvaged books face inward. Missing almost half of the structure, the dome-like book stack substitutes bricks for books, showing a work in ...
Freshome.com

Cheap eBooks Alert (v. 7) – The Gospel Coalition Blog
By Joe Carter
Cheap eBooks Alert (v. 7) avatar. Need books for your e-reader? In a recurring feature on YSK, we highlight free or inexpensive (less that $9) ebooks by Christian publishers. These deals rarely last more than a few days, so be sure to act quickly. Also, these deals are ... In this bookJared Wilson seeks to answer the central question, how do we experience and present the gospel in a fresh, nonroutine way in order to prevent ourselves and others from becoming numb? His answer may ...
The Gospel Coalition Blog

CAA Signs Showrunner Ed Bernero And Author Jonathan
By NELLIE ANDREEVA
Also signing with CAA is bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman. He has written 27 best-sellers featuring his psychologist, crime-solving character Alex Delaware and has sold over 75 millionbooks. His latest book, Victims, is currently a The ...
Deadline.com

Mediabistro to host its first literary festival, online - latimes.com
By Carolyn Kellogg
This is its first geared toward those who want to write books, land literary agents, sell books and do their own marketing online. One of the organizers, and speakers, is Jason Boog of Mediabistro's popular publishing blog, Galleycat. Over the ...
Jacket Copy

Books Bought By Big Picture Readers (April 2012) | The Big Picture
By Barry Ritholtz
3 Responses to “Books Bought By Big Picture Readers (April 2012)”. mathman Says: May 2nd, 2012 at 7:49 pm. Congrats on your book taking the lion's share of the e-book sector! BR – could you possibly do a follow-up entitled The Case ...
The Big Picture

Bug books — The Horn Book
By Jennifer M. Brabander
Recommended books about bugs from the May 2012 issue of Notes from the Horn Book. ...Publications about books for children and young adults. Choosing Books · RecommendedBooks · Review of the Week · Reviews · Horn Book ...
The Horn Book

eBook Review – Guide To: Learning Python Decorators « The ...
By Mike
I bought Matt Harrison's book, Guide To: Learning Python Decorators this week to see if I could finally understand what the big deal was about decorators. I've decided to try reviewing this bookusing Doug Hellman's method of doing a Quick ...
The Mouse Vs. The Python

Newsvine - Google wants authors group out of NY library case
NEW YORK — Google Inc. has urged a judge to toss The Authors Guild out of ... suggesting Google might want to allow book owners to opt into the library rather ...
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Here's the part of the Microsoft and Barnes & Noble agreement everyone's ignoring
ZDNet (blog)
By Mary Jo Foley | May 2, 2012, 10:38am PDT Summary: A Barnes & Noble filing about deliverables coming as a result of its new Microsoft partnership is chock-full of references to Windows Phone. Now that we're all speculated out about the possibility of ...

Author Jen Lancaster Regales Fans in Buckhead
Patch.com
About 80 people who gathered at Barnes & Noble for event with the author of "Bitter is the New Black." By Maggie Lee Fans of Jen Lancaster arrived at Barnes and Noble hours before the best-selling author's book signing and Q and A. The eighty or so ...

Game-Changer: How NFC Will Boost the Nook
Mobiledia
By Kate Knibbs Barnes & Noble is revolutionizing e-readers by adding mobile payment technology to its Nook, through a partnership with Microsoft to challenge rivals Apple and Amazon. The bookseller is adding NFC technology to the Nook, ...

Mobiledia

Can E-Books Succeed Without Amazon?
PBS MediaShift
by Barbara E. Hernandez, May 3, 2012 E-book author Victoria Hudson doesn't like Amazon or the power it seems to wield with independent writers. She didn't want to sell her book and short stories on its Kindle Direct Publishing . . .

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