Generation Y Leads in Book Buying

Generation Y Leads in Book Buying
Publishers Weekly
Generation Y, those born between 1979 and 1989, spent the most money on books in 2011, taking over long-held book-buying leadership from baby boomers, according to the 2012 U.S. Book Consumer Demographics and Buying Behaviors Annual Review.

Book excerpt chronicles Paterno exit
ESPN (blog)
Posnanski's book, Paterno, is due out Aug. 21. It's questionable how much new material the bookwill have about the Sandusky scandal, which enveloped whatever narrative Posnanksi might have begun. GQ has three brief passages from the book today that ...

Food for (Literary) Thought on Julia Child's Birthday
Huffington Post
A novel's food-related content might be pleasant, turn a reader's stomach, or set off reactions between those two extremes -- sometimes in the same book. One novel with a ... In the mix-of-positive-and-negative category, there are more food-filled ...

Author Helps Shortcut-Seeking Student
ABC News
A high school student posted online asking for a "complete review" -- "including everything important" -- of an assigned book she said she wouldn't have time to read before school started in 11 days. She posted a list of excuses as to why the 240-page...

ABC News

The Great Book Sale of Texas: Larry McMurtry Gives Up His Collection
TIME
Author Larry McMurtry. Brandon Thibodeaux / The New York Times. Author Larry McMurtry at the start of an event to auction off much of the stock from his four-buildingliterary mecca, Booked Up, in Archer City, Texas, Aug. 10, 2012. The time comes when ...

TIME

Solo book claims rejected by Ryan
FOXSports.com
American national team goalkeeper Hope Solo's new book “SOLO: A Memoir Of Hope” contains the explosive allegation that ex-women's national team coach Greg Ryan shoved her during a contentious meeting at the 2007 Women's World Cup. Solo was ...

Sherrod plans book tour, discusses civil rights work and political controversy ...
Washington Post
Sherrod is listed as the primary author of the Atria Books release “The Courage to Hope: How I Stood Up to the Politics of Fear,” which is set for national release on Aug. 28. Sherrod wrote thebook with Catherine Whitney, who has co-written more than ...

Report: Jerry Sandusky is writing a book in prison
Washington Post (blog)
Jerry Sandusky and his wife Dottie reportedly are writing a book as the convicted child sex offender awaits sentencing. (Gene J. Puskar / AP) Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant coach who was convicted in June on 45 counts of child sex ...

Second Circuit to Hear Google Appeal in Authors Guild Case
Publishers Weekly
In yet another twist in the Authors Guild vs. Google, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday agreed to hear Google's appeal of Judge Denny Chin's May 31 decision granting the case class action status. As of today, the appeal has no bearing on ...

European Rabbis Ask Apple to Remove Anti-Semitic E-Book
PC Magazine
A group of European rabbis is requesting that Apple remove an e-book from the iTunes Store that they consider to be anti-Semitic. The Conference of European Rabbis wants Apple to remove The Protocols of the Elders of Zion from iBooks. In a statement ...

'The McElderry Book of Mother Goose'
New York Times
The renowned children's book editor Margaret McElderry died last year, but the imprint bearing her name carries on, as does the publisher's “McElderry Book of...” series of anthologies. “The McElderry Book of Mother Goose,” the fourth volume (earlier ...

New York Times

Stifel downgrades Barnes & Noble on increased competition in e-books
Reuters
"We believe consumers are relatively set in their e-book platforms - so we don't expect as much movement as noise - but there is and will be increasing competitive noise in e-books," analyst David Schick wrote in a note. The brokerage noted that ...

BOOK REVIEW: 'The Corruption Chronicles'
Washington Times
With three years of Chicago pol Barack Obama in the White House, it should come as no surprise that Judicial Watch has cataloged dozens upon dozens of outrages, enough to fill up an entire book. That is exactly what Tom Fitton, the organization's ...

Washington Times

Bob Woodward will release book on Obama and the economy
Christian Science Monitor
Bob Woodward is the author of numerous other books, including the co-author of 'All the President's Men.' ... Legendary reporter and writer Bob Woodward will release abook on President Obama's economic policies next month titled “The Price of Politics...

Christian Science Monitor

A Book That Changed Reality
American Spectator
Naturally some of Novak's book has been superseded by events, such as Communism's defeat in Eastern Europe and the former USSR, liberation theology's virtual collapse throughout the Catholic world, and the rise of new generations of bishops and priests ...

Leaning Toward the Light: Molly Ringwald Talks About Her New Novel
New York Times (blog)
Now 44, she continues to act and is also focused on a career as an author. In 2010, she published “Getting the Pretty Back.” She called that effort “a kind of entertaining, anecdotal style guide.” Her new book is “When It Happens to You,” a novel told ...

New York Times (blog)

Escaping the everyday: 'Fifty Shades' book series leaves many women in a 'Grey ...
nwitimes.com
Azadeh Aalai, a social psychologist and assistant professor at Montgomery College in Maryland, says that, because the book is pure fantasy, it will not necessarily harm its readers. "As long as the reader is able to distinguish that this is fantasy ...

Films based on Wisconsin VP contender Paul Ryan's favorite book
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (blog)
Wisconsin Congressman and presumptive Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan is a fan of Ayn Rand, a proponent of objectivism, which promotes individual rights and happiness, and author of the books "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged.

You can find bargains at book sale
Houma Courier
“Each year before school begins, the Friends provide an open-to-the public textbook sale ... all grade levels, non-fiction and reference books, books on tape/CD and a selection of children's books,” said the Terrebonne Parish Library System's public ...

Longest-running UK comic book 'The Dandy' may end
The Oshkosh Northwestern
The publisher of “The Dandy” said Tuesday it is reviewing all of its magazine titles to meet the “challenges of the rapidly changing publishing industry.” Circulation of the weekly comic book, first published in 1937 and best-known for cartoon cowboy ...

David's Book Club: Cosa Nostra (Part 2)
Daily Beast
David's Book Club: Cosa Nostra (Part 2). by David Frum Aug 15, 2012 11:45 AM EDT... editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor. He is the author of seven books, including most recently, his first novel Patriots, published in April 2012.

Daily Beast

Publisher's Pick: Poignant portrayal brings Dakota War home
Post-Bulletin
Opinions. Publisher's Pick: Poignant portrayal brings Dakota War home. Tweet. Share. Posted: Aug 15, 2012, 8:43 am. Saturday, Aug. 18 marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the U.S.- Dakota War of 1862. Saturday also marks a significant ...

Post-Bulletin

Thurber Prize announces 2012 finalists
Los Angeles Times
He's the author of more than 20 books, the most recent of which is up for the Thurber Prize: "Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: 40 Years of Funny Stuff." Trillin's already got another book in the hopper -- "Dogfight: An Occasionally Interrupted Narrative ...

The Apple Revolution: Book review
ZDNet
Cramming in all the interesting stories makes you want to keep reading, but leaves thebook feeling inconsistent. The viewpoint jumps frequently and the amount of detail varies in a way that seems to make time dilate — Apple Writer author Paul Lutus's ...

ZDNet

Rockers Kiss set world record for the largest rock and roll book
Examiner.com
By Phyllis Pollack. It wasn't enough for Kiss that their bassist Gene Simmons flaunts the longest tongue in rock and roll. On Tuesday, Kiss is set to premiere the largest rock book ever to be published. View slideshow: Kiss. Entitled Kiss Monster Book ...

White hats publish DDoS hijacking manual, turn tables on attackers
Ars Technica
"The authors of this malware overlooked security for critical portions of its toolkits," the Prolexic researchers wrote in the report, which can be downloaded here, after completing the Web form at the right side of the page. "The weakest link within ...

Mostly Main Street: Want to meet authors of Ellicott City history? Here's your ...
Baltimore Sun
Shelley Wygant, former president of the Howard County Historical Society, will be there with the society's book, "Images of America: Howard County." Joetta Cramm, the legendary historical tour leader, author and teacher, hopes to be there, with her ...

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Book Cover, dock, and cases coming soon [Hands-on]
Android Community
In case you missed the news this afternoon, Samsung just officially announced their Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet — available tomorrow August 16th. We've seen plenty of it, and now it's finally going to be available for everyone. As usual, Samsung...

Android Community

Free eBook Flowchart - GalleyCat
By Jason Boog
Free eBook Flowchart. By Jason Boog on August 15, 2012 9:42 AM. What's your favorite kind of book? We've created a giant flowchart to help you browse the top 50 free eBooks at Project Gutenberg. Click the image above to ...
GalleyCat

Free NASA iPad book on space food - Boing Boing
By Maggie Koerth-Baker
At Download the Universe, Veronique Greenwood reviews Space Nutrition, a new NASA ebook for iPad that's available for free download online. The book is written with children in mind, but Greenwood says there's enough detail and ...
Boing Boing

Google Can Challenge Authors' Class Status in Book-Scanning ...
By Nick DeSantis
A federal appeals court has given Google the right to appeal a judge's decision to grant class status to authors who are suing the company over its book-scanning operation. Judge Denny Chin in May granted a motion to accord members of ...
The Ticker

Decaying Books in Quebec's Jardin de la Connaissance Sprout ...
By Tafline Laylin
Decaying books at the Jardin de la Connaissance in Quebec have begun to sprout mushrooms and moss. ... Jardin de la Connaissance, garden of knowledge, book architecture, reclaimed books, temporary · Living Garden of Knowledge ...
INHABITAT

Book Briefs – Kevin DeYoung
By Kevin DeYoung
The strengths of Thompson's work are many: he takes Acts on its own terms, his theological themes are well articulated, and he effectively shows the connections between Luke and Acts. I made a point to read this book before venturing on a ...
Kevin DeYoung

New Crash Diet Book Wants You to Starve, Freeze, Stop Eating ...
By Katie J.M. Baker
We haven't covered the book (because the title alone represents everything we oppose), but if you commute to work, you might be forced to consider 100% true facts like "Cold baths can give you a firm body" and "You can skip breakfast" on ...
Jezebel

Calligra Project Announces Calligra Author | Calligra Suite
By Inge Wallin
The application will support a writer in the process of creating an eBook from conception to publication. We have two user categories in ... Textbook authors who want to take advantage of the added possibilities in eBooks compared to paper- based textbooks. For the first category ... For the second category Calligra Author will provide interactive content elements like multimedia, 2D and 3D animations, embedded web content and support for javascript scripting. It is our ambition to work ...
Calligra Suite

'Law & Order: SVU' books 'Criminal Intent' star Kathryn Erbe - Zap2it
By Rick Porter
Kathryn Erbe, who starred on “Criminal Intent” for nine of its 10 seasons, will guest-star on an episode of “Law & Order: SVU” in the fall.
From Inside the Box

Jerry Sandusky writing book from prison with help from his wife ...
Jerry Sandusky has found a way to occupy his time while locked up in Centre County Prison. The former Penn State assistant coach who was found guilty on 45 ...
aol.sportingnews.com/.../jerry-sandusky-writing-book-penn-st...

Death of Harry Harrison, science fiction author, aged 87 | Books ...
He also parodied the genre in his Bill the Galactic Hero books, seeing his work as anti-war and anti-militaristic. ... "Slippery Jim" diGriz, the books' anti-hero, whose latest appearance was in 2010, was, one admirer ... Find out more and book a place ... Why social media isn't the magic bullet for self-epublished authors ...
www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/.../science-fiction-fiction

This Actually Exists: The Ryan Gosling Coloring Book: The GQ Eye ...
This Actually Exists: The Ryan Gosling Coloring Book. By Dennis Tang. RyanGosling-coloring-book-Page_02.jpg. As if you need any more reminders that this is ...
www.gq.com/.../this-is-real-the-ryan-gosling-coloring-book.ht...

Book trailers: 'The Last Victim' and 'The Inn at Rose Harbor ...
These two book trailers don't have anything in common other than that they're for books by ...
books.usatoday.com/happyeverafter/post/2012-08.../1

Free & Cheap in New York: Wed., Aug. 15
New York Daily News
Molly Ringwald, the star of such 1980s film faves as “Sixteen Candles” and “Pretty in Pink,” will appear at Barnes & Noble. She will discuss her first novel, “When It Happens to ... Chefs and food writers, such as Tamar Adler, Dave Crofton and Matt ...

New York Daily News

Bullied: So my friend Carrie Goldman wrote an amazing book
ChicagoNow (blog)
Bullied: So my friend Carrie Goldman wrote an amazing book. Yes, she did. Carrie is not only an accomplished artist and mother extraordinaire, she has now added authorto her list. Las night at the Barnes and Noble in Old Orchard Carrie introduced her ...

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