ZDNet
Harvard researchers have succeeded in storing an entire book on DNA and reading the information back, paving the way for the use of the building block of life as a high-density storage medium. The research was published in Science on Friday.
POLITICO e-book: Obama campaign roiled by conflict
Politico
Second-guessing about personnel, strategy and tactics has been a dominant theme of the reelection effort, according to numerous current and former Obama advisers who were interviewed for “Obama's Last Stand,” an e-book out Monday published in a ...
15 literary travel quotes | CNNGo.com
By CNNGo staff
travel quotes Something about looking out at a view in a foreign place turns everyone into a poet. Or at least a sentimental Facebook-poster. (Photo: Charles Dickens' writing desk). Sometimes, the greatest travel books are the inadvertent kind, ...
CNNGo.com
Edinburgh International Book festival: Val McDermid and Sue Black ...
Crime writer Val McDermid and University of Dundee forensic anthropologist professor Sue Black tell Xan Brooks of their bid to make forensic science more ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../edinburgh-book-festival-val-mcdermi...
Aid worker kidnapped by pirates has book deal
Sacramento Bee
NEW YORK -- An American aid worker kidnapped by Somali pirates in 2011 and rescued by Navy Seal Team Six has a book deal. Atria Books announced Monday that it has an agreement with Jessica Buchanan for a memoir to come out next spring.
Book: Obama finds Romney 'weak,' but fears he could win
USA TODAY (blog)
A new e-book details President Obama's disdain for Mitt Romney, but also his fears that the economy could elect his Republican foe. In Obama's Last Stand, authorGlenn Thrush of Politico writes that Obama has told aides "that Romney stood for 'nothing ...
USA TODAY (blog)
'Paterno' by Joe Posnanski, a Biography of the Coach
New York Times
You don't have to be a college football fan or a consumer of televised sports to appreciate the acuity of this observation by the literary critic Wilfrid Sheed: “Sports communicate a code, a language of the emotions, and a tourist who skips the ...
Gold medal-winning soccer star Alex Morgan to write books
USA TODAY
RIP Remy Charlip: Dancer and children's author Remy Charlip has died at 83. ... Bookbuying: Need a new read? Head to a bookstore, where sales are up in the first half of 2012. For the e-reading set, check out this GalleyCat flowchart of the top 50 ...
USA TODAY
Barnes & Noble Nook E-Reader Goes International - John ...
By John Paczkowski
For Barnes & Noble, the largest bookstore retailer in the U.S. by far, this is an important push forward into the e-book sector, amid increasingly heated competition with Amazon, which already peddles its Kindle e-reader in the U.K. and other ...
AllThingsD
Literary Death Match to Shoot TV Pilot - GalleyCat
By Jason Boog
Globe Pequot Press is looking for a Acquisitions Editor. next job Rodale Inc. is looking for a DigitalBooks Assistant Producer. next job Greenleaf Book Group is looking for a Developmental BookEditor for Independent Publisher. see all ... The pilot will star Michael C. Hall (Dexter; Six Feet Under), Susan Orlean (The Orchid Thief; Rin Tin Tin), the musician Moby (Play; Destroyed), comedian/author Jenny Slate (SNL; author of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On), host Todd Zuniga (LDM ...
GalleyCat
Book: Obamacare law designed to unionize 21 million health care ...
By David Martosko
In a book set for publication Tuesday, a politics and government professor at The Citadel claims President Obama's 2009 health care reform law was, in part, a union-driven effort to organize 21 million health care workers. In ”Shadowbosses: ...
The Daily Caller
Make-your-own-ebooks platform: Aerbook Maker
By Jeff Hastings
But what about librarians and other educators who want to go beyond a read-only experience and enable their students to easily create, share—and even market—their very own slick, tablet-ready graphical ebooks and mobile apps? Enter Aerbook ... A cover can be added as well as titles andauthor names. ... Authors can also elect to share parts of their books on the Web and across social networks for feedback and collaboration, another advantage of cloud-based creation. Once a ...
The Digital Shift
Rare Nazi Book Marked 'Secret' Found by Library Staff in La Grange ...
Stanek, who grew up in Germany and moved to the United States at age 21, noticed something a little different about this book—it was marked, "Geheim!" It's the German word for secret. "People drop off books all the time," Stanek said.
La Grange Patch
Alex Morgan, Caroline Manzo score book deals - Celebrity Circuit ...
In addition to the soccer star and the "Real Housewife," new authors include an ... The book is to be published in the spring by Atria Books, an imprint of Simon ...
www.cbsnews.com/.../alex-morgan-caroline-manzo-score-boo...
Book Parties and Festivals - 2012 Harlem Book Fair: 150th ...
From the 2012 Harlem Book Fair, a panel discussion on the Emancipation Proclamation. ...Christopher Paul Moore is the author or co-author of several books, ...
www.booktv.org/.../2012+Harlem+Book+Fair+150th+Anniver...
Spy the Lie: Maine author reaches NY Times best-seller list, top 10 on Amazon ...
Foster's Daily Democrat
ELIOT, Maine — "As a writer, you really have two big dreams," explained Don Tennant, a publishedauthor and Eliot resident. "One would be winning a Pulitzer, the second would be writing a New York Times best-seller." Tennant is halfway there. "Spy the ...
Calligra plans new professional writing program
The H
The Calligra development team has announced that it plans to add a new program called "Author" to the Calligra Suite, its collection of open source office and productivity applications. The developers say that Calligra Author will be a writing tool ...
Should Self-Published Authors Use Author Solutions?
mediabistro.com
Author Carla King examined the acquisition and and compared the service to othertools out there in the industry. She wrote ... He argued that Author Solutions earns most of its money selling author services to writers instead of helping writers find ...
mediabistro.com
Noted Author Ken Thurber Recognized With 2012 Small Business Influencer ...
Sacramento Bee
Ken Thurber, the author of two Amazon best-sellers - Big Wave Surfing: Extreme Technology Development, Management, Marketing and Investing and Do NOT Invent Buggy Whips - was voted a 2012 Small Business Community Choice Honoree in the Experts Category ...
Writing the book in DNA, literally
R & D Magazine
But in the book, Church and his co-author, the science writer Ed Regis, argue for careful supervision of synthetic biology and the policing of its products and tools. Practicing what they preach, the authors decided against a DNA insert—at least until...
R & D Magazine
Tools for the Modern Primate – Apps for Field-Work - Writing for Nature
I love nature, but as a terrestrial primate, I have a love of tools as well. A simple knife is usually enough for me, with that I can make nearly anything else, given ...
writingfornature.wordpress.com/.../tools-for-the-modern-prim...
Go For It!: Progress in Calligra Author
Calligra Author, the writer's tool in Calligra, was announced on August 14th. ... The Calligra Authorforum is going to be our main tool for interacting with our ...
ingwa2.blogspot.com/2012/08/progress-in-calligra-author.html
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