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Read All About It: Books About Newspapers
Wall Street Journal (blog)
When there are no more newspapers, at least we can read books about them. —M.A.J., New Orleans. My favorite newspaper saga is a nonfiction book called "Comstock Commotion: The Story of the Territorial Enterprise" by Lucius Beebe. It's the history of a ...

Wall Street Journal (blog)

Kobo Writing Life to be Launched Soon
Good E-Reader (blog)
Kobo Writing Life is the company's new self-publishing platform that allows authors to employ a myriad of tools. One of the most exciting aspects of this problem is the live metrics that give you a sense of where your books are selling and how many ...

Book: Israeli spies behind Iran assassinations
Boston.com
Israeli operatives have killed at least four Iranian nuclear scientists, including targeting them with operatives on motorcycles, an assassination technique used by the Israeli spy service, the Mossad, according to authors Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman in ...

'Fifty Shades' sex trilogy dominates bestsellers, report says
Los Angeles Times
Booksellers, get out your handcuffs: Roughly one in five physical books sold in the U.S. over most of the spring were the “Fifty Shades” sex trilogy. That figure comes from Nielsen BookScan data ...Available in stores and airports everywhere and as an ...

Book: Spy agency sent Israelis into Iran to kill nuclear scientists, targeted ...
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — A new book claims Israel's spy agency dispatched assassins into Iran, as part of a campaign to sabotage the country's disputed nuclear program.

20 Million Shades of Green: Racy Book Hits Milestone
Wall Street Journal
The Fifty Shades of Grey erotic trilogy is expected to hit the 20 million-sales mark in the U.S. this week, making it one of the fastest-selling book series in recent memory.... In the U.S., sales have been split nearly evenly between physical and ...

Wall Street Journal

Students of 'Glee' and Archie Plan a Comic-Book Mixer
New York Times (blog)
Archie Comics said that it will publish a four-part storyline called "Archie Meets Glee," in which characters like Archie, Betty, Veronica and Jughead mix it up with the students of the Fox musical comedy "Glee." ... The series, which will run next ...

New York Times (blog)

Should young adult books have age ratings?
Christian Science Monitor
Author G.P. Taylor says 'children's literature has gone too far' and advocates a ratings system like that for movies or video games. ... “I think the way forward is a certification system for books, the same way we have in films,” he said. “For ...

Christian Science Monitor

In the Footsteps of Marvel
New York Times
Now two professed comic book geeks — with backing from the turnaround specialist Peter Cuneo, who spent 10 years at Marvel in various roles, including chief executive — are trying to make lightning strike twice with Valiant, a comics company that was ...

New York Times


'Fifty Shades of Grey' remains at top of bestselling book lists, says new report
Examiner.com
Approximately one in five print copies of all books sold in the U.S. this spring were part of the controversial “Fifty Shades” trilogy by British author E.L. James, reports a Nielsen BookScan press release this week. It has become hard to find a ...

Examiner.com

Oxford: Literary Legend
Huffington Post
It claims literary giants, such as Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh, as its own. Several famous writers, including J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, also taught here. Both men, part of The Inklings, met in The Eagle and Child pub ...

Release Of New Ebooks Targets HealthCompare's Goal Of Health Insurance ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
American health insurance consumers are getting an education in health insurance through HealthCompare, a nationally recognized health insurance comparison site, who aims to guide them through new media formats like infographics and ebooks. Seeing...

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)

Local Publisher Loses Gene Simmons Comic Books To Rival Arcana
San Diego Reader (blog)
Kiss bassist Gene Simmons has announced that the comic books originally planned for localpublisher IDW will now instead be published by rival Arcana Comics. In Spring 2007, Simmons was working with IDW on a horror anthology comic titled Gene ...

Pitchfork Book Fort
Examiner.com
For the first time in PMF's seven years, Poetry Magazine has sponsored a tent for a Pitchfork BookFort à la book fair with programming hosted by Chicago-based publisher Featherproof Books. A recent Pitchfork press release explains the media company's ...

Multi-Award Winning Children's Author, Tina Turbin, Is Interviewed by Write ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
07-09-2012 - Celebrated children's author of the Danny the Dragon children's bookseries and founder of the award-winning, internationally-recognized website GlutenFreeHelp.info, has been featured by Write Money Incorporated, a cutting-edge site geared ...

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)

2 Mick Jagger's affair with David Bowie revealed
New York Daily News
Christopher Andersen is the author of revealing, often scandalous, bestselling biographies of the likes of Madonna, Michael Jackson, Jacqueline Kennedy and Princess Diana.

New York Daily News

George Lopez's Travieso Productions Attached to Produce Author Solutions Title
MarketWatch (press release)
BLOOMINGTON, IN, Jul 09, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Author Solutions, Inc. (ASI), the world leader in indie book publishing, announced George Lopez and his production company, Travieso Productions, are thrilled to be attached to Humberto G. Garcia ...

Children's books need age certifications, claims GP Taylor
The Guardian
The bestselling author of the Vampyre Labyrinth series believes children's literature has become too frightening and should be marked with an age-certification system.

The Guardian

Gene Simmons relaunches comic-book line at Comic-Con
USA TODAY
"In simple terms, we've won," Simmons says. "When I was growing up, they used to make fun of us: 'Oh, that comic-book funny-animal stuff.' Really? Comic books have surpassed almost all other forms of literature because superheroes have taken the place ...

USA TODAY

Book review: 'Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake' details good life
Los Angeles Times
'Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake' book review: Anna Quindlen wrestles with the specter of being an older women in her memoir. The problem is, people may not relate to her idyllic life.

Book Review: We Make Dolls by Jenny Doh
Blogcritics.org (blog)
Author: Confessions of an Overworked Mom — Published: Jul 08, 2012 at 7:42 pm 0 comments. When I was a little ... Top Dollmakers Share Their Secrets and Patterns by Jenny Doh is a book I know my grandmother would have loved. The book ... for this ...

Blogcritics.org (blog)

TED Books launches iOS store, with subscriptions
paidContent.org
Conference organization TED already publishes ebooks. Now it's selling them through a new app, Ted Books for iOS (s AAPL). Readers can also buy ... TED's book apps is built on the platform developed by Brooklyn-based publisher and developer Atavist ...

paidContent.org

Book Review: The Investigation by Phillipe Claudel
Blogcritics.org (blog)
The book tells of the Investigator, sent to an unnamed city to investigate a series of suicides among workers at the Enterprise, a huge company that produces products that cover the range of human activities. The Investigator finds himself in an at ...

US Department of Defense Renews Contract with Safari Books Online
MarketWatch (press release)
Safari Books Online ( www.safaribooksonline.com and www.safaribooksonline.de ) is an on-demand digital library that delivers a wide range of vetted learning resources in both book and video form from the world's leading authors in technology, digital ...

TED Books launches store, subscriptions
tuaw.com
The new Ted Books app includes articles that are 20000 words or less and can be digested in a single sitting. The platform that powers the app allows authors to create an interactive experience by embedding audio, video and social features into their ...

New Book: Angelina Jolie Made Mick Jagger Cry When She Rejected Him [VIDEO]
LimeLife (blog)
Author Christopher Andersen's new Jagger bio Mick: The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger will be released on Tuesday, and the New York Daily News' excerpts of the book include details on how ladykiller Jagger went gaga for Jolie when she played a ...

Celebrity chef, author Anthony Sedlak dies at 29
CBC.ca
Sedlak was best-known as the host of Food Network Canada's The Main and a judge on Family Cook Off, as well as author of the national bestseller cookbook, The Main. By the time he was 13, Sedlak knew he wanted to be a chef and, by 19, had completed ...

CBC.ca

ALA OITP releases backgrounder document on eBooks and libraries ...
By a TeleRead Contributor
12% of e-book readers have borrowed an e-book from their library; 62% of people don't know they can borrow e-books from their library; 69% of people report the library is important to them and their family; Many people would like to learn ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...

Walk the High Line With New Book App - GalleyCat
By Dianna Dilworth
Walk the High Line With New Book App. ... Andrews McMeel Publishing is looking for a Cookbook Publicist. next job Zola Books is looking for a Associate Editor. next job Disney Publishing Worldwide is looking for a Managing Editor. see all · Apps ... Art book publisher Thames & Hudson has a new app available to help guide visitors through New York City's High Line park. ... Join the summer's hottest literary ticket with our new keynote pass to the Mediabistro Literary Festival. Sign up ...
GalleyCat

Check This Out! – Casaubon's Book
By Sharon Astyk
More ». http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2012/07/06/preserving-our-backyard-bounty-in-jars-cans/. I was on WHYY in Philadelphia the other day talking about canning with _Food in Jars_ author Marisa McClellan. 'Twas awesome! (0). More » ...
Casaubon's Book

New Guide Book on Medieval Uppland – Aardvarchaeology
By Martin R
Two years ago myself and other Stockholmers got half of our High Medieval itches scratched by a fine archaeological guide book covering Södermanland. Now Johan Anund and Linda Qviström have returned with a book that sees to our ...
Aardvarchaeology

'The Little Blue Book': Secrets From the Radical New Book that Van ...
By Erica Ritz
Before you even open the book, its sly self-referential gamesmanship leaps off the cover: the very title itself is a wink-wink-nudge-nudge ironic-but-not-really reference to Chairman Mao's Little RedBook, the kind of hidden-meaning secret ...
TheBlaze.com - Stories

Collectible History of Sonic the Hedgehog book lands October ...
By Matthew Humphries
Entitled “The History of Sonic the Hedgehog,” the 300-page hardcover book has been compiled by non other than Udon Entertainment. Udon is well known for producing fantastic game-related artbooks, with its selection of Capcom titles ...
Geek.com

Books Made with Disappearing Ink Strategically Fade Away | Open ...
By Dan Colman
The Buenos Aires publisher Eterna Cadencia has started to publish books made with. ... Once you crack open the cover, you have two months to finish the book, or else you'll be staring at a blank page. If books have an expiration date, readers won't let them sit idly on their shelves. They'll readbooks more often, and give more authors a try. That's the logic of this new twist on publishing..Books aren't dead yet. They're just intentionally fading away…. via Galley Cat. Related Content: ...
Open Culture

Melman's Romance with Mossad Continues with New Book Tikun ...
By Richard Silverstein
Most of them, he said, were cooked up to sell books rather than shed light on the real Mossad. But I'm afraid that with this book, Melman and his co-author, Newsweek reporter Dan Raviv, have done the fantasists one better: he's taken an ...
Tikun Olam-תיקון עולם

Once Upon a Read-a-Thon 2012 Mini Challenge | IB Book Blogging
By Bailey
Each winner will get to choose one book from my ARC pile whose covers are among some of my favorites: Once by Anna Carey, Glass Heart by Amy Garvey, Crewel by Gennifer Albin, Because It Is My Blood by Gabrielle Zevin, Blessed by ...
IB Book Blogging

New Tell-All Book Reveals Surprising, Alleged Angelina Jolie - VH1
By Ambika Muttoo
But that's the thing about tell-all books right? The information is juicy but it's also completely alleged. This latest book by Christopher Andersen called “MICK: The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger” is the epitome of that. It drops quite a ...
VH1 Celebrity

Philosophy News | Which Book is This?
By paulp
Can you name the philosophy book in the photo below? We'll send a Philosophy News coffee mug to the first person who can name both the exact title of the book and the author.
Philosophy News

Pop Culture Junkie: This Week in Books
By Alea
This Week in Books. 1. Soapy Love by Debbie Chialtas (Half Price Books). 2. So Pretty! Crochet by Amy Palanjian (Dick Blick). 3. Rift by Andrea Cremer (Review). 4. Black City Elizabeth Richards (Review). 5. The Innocents by Lil Peloquin ...
Pop Culture Junkie

Optimize Minneapolis Book Launch
Over the past 2 months I've given book presentations in New York, the UK, Belgium and Toronto. And now, we're finally going to have a proper book launch for. ... Joe Pulizzi- Content Marketing Institute, Content Marketing World, Author ...
www.toprankblog.com/2012/07/optimize-minneapolis/

Paris Review – Watch: How a Book Is Made, 1947, Sadie Stein
But how about a book? ... TAGS books, film, printing, video, Vintage ... The Browser; The ...
www.theparisreview.org/.../watch-how-a-book-is-made-1947/

Blurb wedding books | Pretty Paper, Sponsored Post | 100 Layer Cake
They make it easy to design, publish, promote, share, and even sell your book. blurb weddingbooks. Blurb is easy to use, highly affordable, and has tools for ...
www.100layercake.com/blog/2012/07/.../blurb-wedding-book...

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