Washington Post
NEW YORK — With a Democrat in the White House, a wave of books are coming out this year lamenting the slow economy and calling for substantial change. And those books are by liberals. “It's the story of the moment right now,” says Patricia Bostelman, ...
Why Apple needs to settle its e-book suits
CNET
Apple and the publishers are accused of conspiring to fix e-book prices. commentary Amazon.com has outmaneuvered Apple in the e-books sector. Nowhere was this made more apparent than in court documents released last week. In antitrust lawsuits filed by ...
Neil Barofsky, who helped oversee $700B financial industry bailout, has book ...
Washington Post
NEW YORK — The man who helped oversee the $700 billion bailout of the financial industry has abook deal. Neil Barofsky, the Special Inspector General of the controversial TARP program from 2008-2011, has an agreement with the Free Press for a memoir ...
Will 'Dude Lit' Finally Entice Men to Read...
ABC News
While women voraciously devour fiction books like the racy "Fifty Shades of Grey" a major publisheris betting that more men will at long last take up reading via an eBook series that will launch June 5 -- "Fiction for Men.
Book Review: Bleeding Out by Jes Battis
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
ORG Bleeding Out by Jes Battis is the fifth book in his OSI (Occult Special Investigator) Series which features Tess Corday, an Investigator working for Vancouver's Mystical Crime Lab. It's also, to judge by the way Battis opens the "Acknowlegement" ...
Japanese author of popular video game Mario Bros wins 2012 Spanish Asturias prize
Washington Post
Miyamoto, 59, is the author of the Mario Bros. series that has become one of the most marketed video game sagas in history. Asturias award organizers praised Miyamoto, saying he converted “the video game into a social revolution and has managed to ...
New Poetry Book Shares Freestyle Poetic Voice of a Young Mind
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
(PRWEB) May 23, 2012 An engaging collection of literary poetry drawn out from the dawning of a new writer with a freestyle poetic voice in a young mind. and grasping his freedom of creatively expressing his thoughts with a tightly closed fist is in ...
Publish Green Awarded First Place in eBook Design by Midwest Book Awards
PR Web (press release)
Minnesota-based eBook publisher and distributor Publish Green, a division of Hillcrest Media Group Inc., was awarded a 2011 Midwest Book Award for the exceptional eBook design and layout of The Character Triangle by Lorne Rubis.
Book Review | Father's Day: Author's insecurities extend to special son
Columbus Dispatch
That was a rare kind of success for a nonfiction writer, and one might think it would bring a measure of calm and satisfaction to the book's author. If you suspect that's the case, you don't know much about Harry Gerard Bissinger III, ...
Columbus Dispatch
Hollywood snaps up hot ebook titles
Variety
"As we've known for years and years, the studios have been much more interested in brands, whether that's a board game or video game or traditional book," said Steve Fisher, veep of APA and a literary agent who represents books-to-films deals.
Variety
Navigating the Ebook Revolution
American Libraries
By James LaRue Long heralded, the e-revolution has finally arrived in the form of rapid adoption of e-reader devices. It's here. Long heralded, the e-revolution has finally arrived in the form of rapid adoption of e-reader devices.
Stephen Shapiro, Author of Best Practices Are Stupid, to Speak at Crowdopolis ...
MarketWatch (press release)
LOS ANGELES, May 23, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The producers of Crowdopolis 2012, a major conference focused on crowdsourcing for large enterprises, today announced that Stephen Shapiro, the author of Best Practices Are Stupid: 40 Ways to Out-Innovate ...
TV makers kill discounts; e-book publishers can't
CBS News
Why Apple needs to settle its e-book suits How Apple's battle over e-books helps consumers Will publishers kill Amazon's golden goose? Take Sony (SNY) and Samsung as examples. Both manufacture television sets. Both feel the pain of dropping prices in ...
CBS News
Rolling Stones 50th Anniversary: New LIFE Book Marks The Milestone
Huffington Post
In that same spirit, LIFE books has come out with a book on the Stones, similar to the Dylan book covered on May 11. Once again, the book is full of amazing pictures, some that have been well-exposed, some fairly rare. The main difference between the ...
'Fifty Shades' gives readers something to talk about
STLtoday.com (blog)
FILE- This file combo made of book cover images provided by Vintage Books shows the "Fifty Shades of Grey" trilogy by best-selling author EL James. You can't always tell how explicit a bookis by its cover. RT Book Reviews also uses a sensuality rating ...
Best-Selling Author Ellyn Spragins Releases "Had I Known Then," A Collection ...
MarketWatch (press release)
That's why DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. (DePuy) is teaming up with Ellyn Spragins, author of the best-selling "Letters to My Younger Self®" book series to introduce the "Had I Known Then" booklet on joint health. The booklet features letters from joint ...
10 Million Shades of Green: Erotic Trilogy Dominates Book Sales
New York Times (blog)
The erotic novels were released by Vintage Books, part of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, beginning in March in e-book format and in April in trade paperback. They were originally published by a small independent press in Australia and difficult ...
Carol Burnett to publish memoir about her daughter
Los Angeles Times
Carol Burnett will publish a memoir with Simon & Schuster, the publisher announced Tuesday. "Carrie and Me: A Mother-Daughter Love Story," about Burnett and her daughter, Carrie Hamilton, will come to shelves in April 2013. Hamilton died of cancer in ...
Spring Book Reviews | Photos | Transworld Surf
By Justin Cote
Four books to keep on your reading radar... ... Spring Book Reviews. By Justin Cote Tue, May 22 2012 4:35 pm | Comments. SHARE: Spring Reading Reviews In this age of digital everything it's easy to browse your favorite web sites, read a few gossip columns, and call yourself “in the know.” That's great and all but lately I've rediscovered the joy of reading a good book. Something about posting up somewhere (preferably in a hammock under a palm tree) nice and quiet and getting ...
Transworld Surf » | Transworld Surf
languagehat.com: BONES OF THE BOOK.
By languagehat
From n + 1 (see this LH post), an interesting essay by Robert Moor about the history of the e-book("usually said to have been invented in 1971, when an undergrad at the University of Illinois, Michael S. Hart, decided to upload The Declaration ...
languagehat.com
Jeff Biggers: Fukushima Tour de Force: New Book Chronicles ...
By Jeff Biggers
In a provocative and carefully crafted piece of investigative reporting, Pineda captures the moment with the scathingly funny and deep insight that has marked her internationally acclaimed literarywork: "If NRC chief, Gregory Jaczko, bears an ... In the tradition of French author Andre Malraux's "Anti-Memoirs," Pineda "answers questions that memoirs do not pose and does not answer those they do pose, and also because one finds in it, often linked to tragedy, an irrefutable and gliding ...
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Book Of Clubs — Kath Eats Real Food
By KathEats
On the agenda, Ahab's Wife, which is my favorite book. I loved it because it's a poetic adventure set by and on the ocean about a strong female character and her life's trials. It's beautifully written and thought provoking. Others didn't like it as ...
Kath Eats Real Food
15 Thought-Provoking Discussion Questions Every Book Club ...
By Julieanne Smolinski
Some people have suggested that book clubs are a silly, middle class diversion for the kinds of pretentious bourgie women who want to have high mined discussions about books you buy at an airport so you can read it "before you see the ...
Jezebel
What Book Should Never Be Filmed? - GalleyCat
By Jason Boog
What Book Should Never Be Filmed? ... Follow this link to read the whole comic book review. Check it out: “Every so often, comic artist John Bonner reviews books, audio, and more, then turns his reactions into a comic strip. You can check out ...
GalleyCat
A Book for Republicans - Thomas Sowell - Townhall Conservative ...
By Thomas Sowell
In 1924, the ideas from these articles were collected in a book which Mellon titled "Taxation: The People's Business." That book has recently been reprinted by the University of Minnesota Law Library. Today's Republicans would do well to get ...
Townhall's Recent Columns
Author Edmund White Suffers Stroke| News | Towleroad
By Andy Towle
Legendary gay author Edmund White (A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room is Empty, The Farewell Symphony) suffered a stroke earlier this month according to a notice to friends on his Facebook page, dictated to his partner Michael Carroll ...
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Flavorwire » 25 Awesome Minimalist Book Covers
By Emily Temple
So when Abe Books created a gallery of modern minimalist book covers they liked, we were inspired to put together one of our own. There's ... I love minimalist art, doing three EBooks and just using black and white picture as cover designs ...
Flavorwire
By Emily Temple
So when Abe Books created a gallery of modern minimalist book covers they liked, we were inspired to put together one of our own. There's ... I love minimalist art, doing three EBooks and just using black and white picture as cover designs ...
Flavorwire
Tea Party Coloring Book Gets a Sequel - GalleyCatThe Social-Activist Coloring Book For Kids, the 48-page coloring book costs $5.99. The book ...
www.mediabistro.com/.../tea-party-coloring-book-gets-a-sequ...
Fort Ontario program focuses on "Madeline" author's time in Oswego ...
The visitor sent fort officials Bemelmans' first book, "My War With the United States ... in most of the autobiographical blurbs on the sleeves of his books; however, ...
www.syracuse.com/.../fort_ontario_program_focuses_o.html
Hipster Book Collection at Tumblr HQ
Hipster Book Collection at Tumblr HQ. By Scott Beale on May 23, 2012. Hipster Books at Tumblr HQ. While visiting the Tumblr HQ recently I came across this ...
laughingsquid.com/hipster-book-collection-at-tumblr-hq/
Vintage Anti-JFK Coloring Book » Sociological Images
Recently Talking Points Memo posted a 1960s coloring book sent in by a reader, who found it among her grandmother's things. The coloring book, New Frontier, ...
thesocietypages.org/.../2012/.../vintage-anti-jfk-coloring-book/
Recently Talking Points Memo posted a 1960s coloring book sent in by a reader, who found it among her grandmother's things. The coloring book, New Frontier, ...
thesocietypages.org/.../2012/.../vintage-anti-jfk-coloring-book/
Breast cancer books (5 books)
5 books based on 1 votes: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong, ...Goodreads: Book reviews, recommendations, and discussion ...
www.goodreads.com/list/show/20237.Breast_cancer_books
5 Common SMB Online Marketing Optimization Issues Solved: Q&A with Lee Odden
Search Engine Watch
Lee Odden, author of “Optimize: How to Attract and Engage More Customers by Integrating SEO, Social Media and Content Marketing,” offered to help us solve five common SMB online marketing problems. We receive a lot of questions and feedback at Search ...
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