Next Bob Woodward book, 'The Price of Politics,' to take on President Barack Obama

Next Bob Woodward book, 'The Price of Politics,' to take on President Barack ...
Washington Post
NEW YORK — The U.S. economy is about to get the Bob Woodward treatment. The next book by the award-winning investigative reporter and best-selling author will document how President Barack Obama and congressional leaders responded to the ...

Longest-running UK comic book 'The Dandy' may end
Boston.com
Circulation of the weekly comic book, first published in 1937 and best-known for cartoon cowboy Desperate Dan and Korky the Cat, dropped to less than 7500 in the second half of last year. At its peak in 1950 it sold some 2 million copies. Scotland ...

Court lets Google appeal digital books class status
Reuters
(Reuters) - Google Inc has won the right to appeal the granting of class status to thousands ofauthors suing the search engine company over its ambitious plan to create the world's largest digitalbooks library. In a brief ... Google has already ...

Hard Truth for Author: Publisher Pulls 'The Jefferson Lies'
New York Times (blog)
Last month the History News Network voted David Barton's book “The Jefferson Lies” the “least credible history book in print.” Now the book's publisher, Thomas Nelson, has decided to stop publishing and distributing it. The book, which argues that ...

Paul Ryan Book Club: Shrugging Off Ayn Rand?
ABC News (blog)
First, a look at his adoring relationship with the work of Russian emigre novelist Ayn Rand, author of “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead.” It began, according to a 2005 speech Ryan gave to The Atlas Society, when he was still a student. And it ...

ABC News (blog)

Israeli authors demand that prime minister seek Cabinet vote before Iran strike
Washington Post
JERUSALEM — Several prominent Israeli authors are demanding that Israel's prime minister not order an attack on Iran without permission from his Cabinet. The letter is the latest chapter in an unprecedented debate in Israeli society over whether to ...

Authors destroy legal e-book lending site thanks to Authors Guild, publisher FUD
ExtremeTech
Last week, the popular e-book lending site LendInk was taken offline thanks to a group of terrified authors who couldn't be bothered to read the fine print. LendInk ... Part of the problem is that it's apparently possible for book distributors to re ...

ExtremeTech

A Sci Fi Bookstore/Publisher Grows in Brooklyn
Publishers Weekly
Their goal was to save out-of-print, out-of-circulation vintage sci fi books from the 1970s and earlier by republishing them digitally. Instead, they got pledges of more than triple that, or $52276, which gave their book-a-month e-book publishing ...

Publisher withdraws theocrat's laughably inaccurate book on Thomas Jefferson
Dodge City Daily Globe (blog)
A best-selling book is getting boxed up and returned to the publisher after complaints of historical inaccuracies. Publisher Thomas Nelson has withdrawn 'The Jefferson Lies” after a lengthy review found the author, David Barton, had included ...

The New Tablet Reality for E-Books: Will Readers Read Less?
Forbes
“Tablets will adversely affect the e-book business in that the tablet is a multifunction device and will therefore draw the reader into non-book activities and therefore cause them to consume booksslower and therefore buy fewer books versus a single ...

Joe Kubert Dies at 85; Influential Comic-Book Artist
New York Times
Joe Kubert, a titan among comic-book artists whose work stretched from the Golden Age of the superhero to the gritty realism of the graphic novel, died on Sunday in Morristown, N.J. He was 85. ArtsBeat · Breaking news about the arts, coverage of live ...

Bob Woodward's Obama Book; Michael Chabon's Record Store
The Atlantic Wire
Today in books and publishing: Susan G. Komen exec to tell her side of the Planned Parenthood story; bookstore imitates Chabon's fiction; Woodward's next book will cover Obama's economic strategy. Controversial Susan G. Komen exec to tell her side of ...
 
The Atlantic Wire

Behind the Feminist Ryan Gosling
Daily Beast
I mean … WOMAN.' The woman who created the Feminist Ryan Gosling Tumblr talks to Melissa Leon about her new book, how the Gosling meme is spreading feminism, and why she doesn't actually think the actor is hot. PLUS, see photos from the book.

Daily Beast

Student asks Internet for help avoiding book, gets schooled by its author
NBCNews.com
Answers community for help with a school assignment on "The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To" by DC Pierson, he or she probably didn't expect to hear from the author himself. Or to get a bit of a scolding. "Yahoo! Answers is notorious for being ...

'Sex and the Single Girl' was Helen Gurley Brown's bestseller
Examiner.com
The book sold two million copies in just three weeks. It was sold in 35 countries and appeared on three major bestseller lists: Los Angeles Times, New York Times and the Times. Two years after the publication of the book, "Sex and the Single Girl" was ...

Examiner.com

Libraries to try buying e-books directly
San Francisco Chronicle
Librarians training members of the public to use their Nooks, Kindles and iPads to download free library ebooks. San Francisco, Calif. on Thursday, Aug 02, 2012. Photo: Sonja Och, The Chronicle / ... At a recent free e-reader training session at the ...

San Francisco Chronicle

BOOK REVIEW: 'The Admirals'
Washington Times
Despite its length this is an extremely readable book especially recommended for anyone who has never read previous biographies of these four important individuals — or, perhaps, needs an update on their lives and contributions to victory in World War II.

Washington Times

Need a job? Write a book
Anderson Independent Mail
Karen Handel, one-time Republican candidate for governor of Georgia who followed that unfulfilled desire with a short-lived stint as senior vice president of public policy for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, can now add another line to her resume ...

Dream Book: Sleeping Could Assist With Learning
Huffington Post
Dream Book: Sleeping Could Assist With Learning .... That, in fact, looks like future of dream studies: finding the practical amid the surreal. David K Randall is a senior reporter at Reuters and theauthor of Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange ...

NW Books: Local Black Panther memoir; Olympic Peninsula guide
The Seattle Times
New books by Seattle-area authors: "My People Are Rising," Aaron Dixon's memoir of becoming a Black Panther and starting the Seattle chapter in 1968; "Moon Handbooks: Olympic Peninsula," by born-and-raised-there Jeff Burlingame; "Devine Intervention ...

Book Review: Red Ink: Inside The High Stakes Politics Of The Federal Budget by ...
Blogcritics.org (blog)
The author points out that the United States defense budget is greater than the combined defense budgets of the next highest 17 defense budgets of foreign countries. More specifically, the defense budget during the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars rose to ...

Kissing Sailor Photograph: New Book Searches For The Famously ...
Huffington Post
Co-authors Lawrence Verria, a high school history teacher, and George Galdorisi, a retired Navy captain, believe that they've identified the woman as a dental assistant on her lunch break and the man as a tipsy sailor who'd been on a date with another ...

Book Review: The Messiah Matrix by Kenneth John Atchity
Blogcritics.org (blog)
Ken Atchity, a Classical scholar, accomplished author and Hollywood producer, does not disappoint his readers. The Messiah Matrix is a creative, thought-provoking, action-packed, historically laced, and masterfully detailed page-turner. (Watch out for ...

Blogcritics.org (blog)

New book discounts theory of marijuana as top US cash crop
Sacramento Bee
However, the book authors argue that the government figures cited by Gettman were merely "hypothetical values meant only to illustrate how the arithmetic would be done if certain unknown parameters were to become known at some point in the future." ...

Authors After Dark
Publishers Weekly (blog)
“Authors After Dark focuses on the reader-author relationship through education of titles, genres and books in general. It is a true reader con, putting readers wants and needs at the forefront, and caters to all types of readers of romance, fantasy ...

Publishers Weekly (blog)

Breaking: Google can appeal class certification in Books case ...
By Jeff John Roberts
Google can appeal an order that let the Authors Guild go forward with a class action lawsuit overbook scanning. This means current proceedings will be on hold until a higher court either dismisses the case or offers guidance on what should ...
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Bob Woodward to Publish The Price of Politics September 11 ...
By Jason Boog
Journalist Bob Woodward has revealed the subject and release date for his 17th book. The Price of Politics will be published September 11, a $30 hardcover and a $14.99 eBook. Interviews with Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos ...
GalleyCat

Song Premiere: Bad Books Stray From Comfort Zone on 'Forest ...
Click to listen to Bad Books' 'Forest Whitaker' When Bad Books' Forest Whitaker first starts playing, it's easy to forget that the band isn't a rap g.
RollingStone.com: Music News

New Woodward Book Due in September - NYTimes.com
By By JULIE BOSMAN
The fall books season just got a little more crowded. Bob Woodward's 17th book, “The Price of Politics,” will be published on Sept. 11, his publisher said on Tuesday, in the splashy, embargoed style that has been a trademark of a Woodward ...
Media Decoder

Authors retract nutrition review that plagiarized deceased researcher ...
By trevorlstokes
A pair of authors have retracted a paper in Nutrition Reviews after it became clear that parts were plagiarized from work by a nutritionist who had died in an accident just weeks after writing the material. The retraction reads in full: The following article from ... Since the source was not cited in the manuscript as it was developed and discussed by the authors, the senior author, Professor Jialal, was unaware that such a breach had occurred. REFERENCES. 1. Singh U, Jialal I. Alpha-lipoic ...
Retraction Watch

Amar'e Stoudemire launches a children's book series | theGrio
By Similoluwa Ojurongbe
NBA star Amar'e Stoudemire is set to release a new book series for middle-school-aged children. The books are to be published by Scholastic in a series called STAT: Standing Tall and Talented. Co-written by Stoudemire with the Scholastic ...
theGrio

Back to School – Casaubon's Book
By Sharon Astyk
On my lap, I've got a set of school books that date from the 1850s to the 1890s. They belonged to various of my father's family – my great-uncle, George Hume, who died long before I was born and studied Eaton's Common School Arithmetic in ...

Interview: Federico Pistono, Author of “Robots Will Steal Your Job ...
By Peter Murray
His book, which is on pre-order right now and will be released this November, questions the premise that today's widespread unemployment is necessarily a symptom of the economic downturn and suggests it may be a sign that we're being ...
Singularity Hub

Top journalist 'murders former boss' - in a book - The Local
Perhaps most intriguing, Steinfeld was literary editor at the FAZ in the 1990s and left along with a host of other culture editors in 2001 - out of frustration with Schirrmacher's iron rule, Die Welt said. Neither Schirrmacher or Steinfeld have said anything publicly about the book, and "Per Johansson" has not granted any interviews, though the publisher S. Fischer admitted under pressure that he was a pseudonym for an "author-duo." The Local/bk. What do you think? Leave your comment ...
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Books - Flavorwire
Books · 10 of the Funniest American Essayists of Our Time. by Emily Temple. ... producer, musician, author, essayist, comedian — the list (probably) goes on. ... loss to American letters, we refer you to this list of the literary giant's best zingers.
www.flavorwire.com/.../10-of-the-funniest-american-essayists-...

Ryan Shrugs Off Ayn Rand - Yahoo! News
Publish your own activity and retain full control. ... with the work of Russian emigre novelist Ayn Rand, author of "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead." ... Ryan has since denied making his staff read the books. ... The novelist and literary critic Harriet Rubin wrote bluntly in the New York Times that "Atlas Shrugged" is a ...
news.yahoo.com/paul-ryan-book-club-shrugging-off-ayn-ran...

The Ryan Gosling Coloring Book | Complex
The stars have truly aligned now that the Ryan Gosling coloring book actually exists. ... "Drive"Author Reveals That A Movie Sequel Is In Development. 2 months ...
www.complex.com/art.../08/the-ryan-gosling-coloring-book

Daily Kos: Stewart Acuff: Domestic Book Tour!
So if I stop in your town you can get both books for 20 bucks. ... Acuff has also written two books: Playing Bigger Than You Are: A Life in Organizing, and Getting ...
www.dailykos.com/.../-Stewart-Acuff-Domestic-Book-Tour

Author defends his book after student requests quick summary ...
Publish your own activity and retain full control. ... "First off, I'm really excited that my book is being suggested for summer reading. ... "I'm not going to sit here and act like I didn't sometimes not read assigned books for class in high school. .... since this is where authors will introduce and conclude what they are trying to say .
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