Chicago Sun-Times
“Of course this might change tomorrow, but I thought I would feel more nervous because it's been five years [since the final Potter book was released] and this is a very different kind of book, but actually, I feel quite excited,” says Rowling in a sit ...
Scottish author Irvine Welsh is back with 'Skagboys'
New York Daily News
Scottish author Irvine Welsh has revisited the characters featured in his controversial 1993 debut, “Trainspotting.” “Skagboys” is a prequel. It explores the reasons for the demise of his central cast; made famous by Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller ...
New York Daily News
Niece of Scientology head to publish tell-all book
New York Daily News (blog)
Scientology, the secretive faith of many a Hollywood star, will soon be the subject of a revealingbook by Jenna Miscavige Hill. Hill's uncle ... Hill's book will be called "Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape." The ...
Author Zach Wahls: Morals matter to my two moms
CNN
'My Two Moms' author Zach Wahls says he "doesn't get it" when other people are offended by same-sex marriage. For more CNN videos, check out our YouTube channel athttp://www.youtube.com/cnn. Or visit our site at http://www.cnn.com/video/ ...
Spreading the word about author Donald Antrim
CBS News
He has earned the respect, even reverence of such peers as Jonathan Franzen and Jeffrey Eugenides, but so far has had what he calls "literary-level" sales, the kind that leave many writers without a publisher or even a book in print. But those who do ...
SW Idaho school district bans book amid complaints
Sacramento Bee
The Idaho Press-Tribune reports ( http://bit.ly/QvE2Bf) Nampa School Board Chairman Scott Kido received 15 emails Sunday about the book by Mexican author Laura Esquivel. Kido says he agreed the book seemed inappropriate and it will be pulled.
Author Michael Chabon channels hometown of Columbia in new book
Baltimore Sun (blog)
In the interview, the Pulitzer-prize winning author said the racial themes in his newest novel, "Telegraph Avenue," grew out of his personal life, specifically the contrast between his upbringing in the racially diverse Columbia to his experiences away ...
Baltimore Sun (blog)
Naomi Wolf Answers Her Critics. Sort Of.
Slate Magazine
By the time I had gained some semblance of my own feminist consciousness, thebook's argument—that impossible physical demands on female bodies force women to work a “third shift” in service of the beauty industry—had become so culturally ... that...
Slate Magazine
Could downloaded e-books be the saviour of libraries?
Channel 4 News (blog)
This morning I visited one of them, Holborn Library in Camden, where readers can now download e-books from their account on the council's website directly onto their e-reading device – without even having to visit the physical library premises. Once ...
Channel 4 News (blog)
'Run the Risk' author Lori Foster talks with 'Sultry with a Twist' author Macy ...
USA TODAY
Now, on with the interview (and the Screaming Aloha) … Macy: Hey, Lori. You're looking lovely today! I'm thrilled to talk to you about Run the Risk, the first book in your brand-new series. How many books have you planned for the "Love Undercover" line?
USA TODAY
Stephen Chbosky Interview: Author Sees His Characters Come To Life In 'Perks ...
Huffington Post
When I started writing the book I didn't have his name, and when I wrote that first “Love always,” I just knew it was Charlie. It was just ... In the book, the tunnel song was “Landslide” by Fleetwood Mac, but in the movie it was “Heroes” by David ...
Salman Rushdie: Beyond the tabloids
Los Angeles Times
Like “The Right Stuff” or “In Cold Blood,” these books that are based on completely true stories but that are shaped with a novelist's eye... To do that, you need to be subjective and objective at the same time. The first person was getting in my way ...
Schwarzenegger book has details on affair
UPI.com
"The minute we sat down, the therapist turned to me and said, 'Maria wanted to come here today and to ask about a child -- whether you fathered a child with your housekeeper Mildred,'" the Daily News quoted Schwarzenegger, 65, as saying in the book.
UPI.com
Chinese authorities ask booksellers to ban Japanese works
Christian Science Monitor
Chinese authorities are asking booksellers in Beijing to ban books by Japanese authors and titles about Japanese topics as well as pressuring Chinese publishers not to translate and publish Japanese content in response to a tense territorial row ...
Christian Science Monitor
East Penn school board president's statement on book controversy
Allentown Morning Call
There are from 15-25 books from which students may choose from any summer reading list. There are no requirements to read any particular book on any list (note added later – except in some 9th grade honors courses, and neither of the books in question ...
Google Play Books Update Adds Geographical Lookup, Translations
All Things Digital
Google is arming Android users with more tools to enhance their reading experience with an updated version of its Google Play Books application. The most interesting feature of the update is the ability to get more information about a geographic location.
All Things Digital
Disney e-book gives behind-the-scenes look at the making of 'Frankenweenie'
Orlando Sentinel
Apple's iBooks Author application is one that allows users to create e-books and publish them at the Apple iBooks bookstore. Many of the application's user-interface features and editing concepts are similar to Apple's Keynote and Pages products. This ...
Alex Witchel, 'All Gone' Author, On Coping With Her Mother's Dementia
Huffington Post
I really telescoped my world to my mom, my job and [my husband] Frank [Rich]. There's a whole other aspect to this, which is not in the book: My sister died. So that's been its own nightmare. She was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer in February of ...
Author To Discuss Her Book, 'Why I Left The Amish,' At Newington Library
Hartford Courant
That book is titled "Why I left the Amish," published last year by Michigan State University Press. Furlong is scheduled to appear at 7 p.m. Thursday at the ... Her books will be available for purchase and signing. The event is free. Furlong, 55 ...
Schuler Books hosts author visit, special sale to celebrate 30th anniversary
MLive.com
In today's e-book age, Schaefer said it is essential for locally owned book stores to adapt to the changing market in order to maintain their competitive edge. “We were able to meet the needs of customers and our readers very quickly,” she said ...
MLive.com
Moon book titles break out Washington's northern Cascades, Columbia River ...
OregonLive.com (blog)
In this case, what had already been published in Moon books on hiking and camping in Washington has been repacked into a new "Spotlight" series. The spotlight, in this case, is on geographic regions -- the northern ... for either area and want to ...
OregonLive.com (blog)
Seven Explosive Details from Bair's New Book
American Banker
WASHINGTON — Sheila Bair comes out swinging in a new book released Tuesday, blasting Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner as the "bailouter in chief," while detailing fierce regulatory battles before, during and after the financial crisis. The former ...
Books bloggers are harming literature, warns Booker prize head judge
The Guardian
Guardian books blogger and author Sam Jordison agreed with Stothard about the need for argued, reasoned criticism, but said that this was amply provided by bloggers such as John Self, Max Cairnduff and Stephen Mitchelmore. "One of the best places to...
The Guardian
Author Brené Brown: Prepare to dare greatly
VOXXI
In Dr. Brené Brown's latest book, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead (Gotham Books, 2012), she explains how vulnerability is both the core of difficult emotions like fear and grief as well ...
BOOK REVIEW: 'A Daughter's Tale'
Washington Times
If certainly not a portrait warts and all, “A Daughter's Tale” does not flinch from some of the more difficult times in the Churchill household or in its author's life. Conscripted into the military like all single young women in wartime England, Mrs ...
Washington Times
Google Play Books app arrives in Japan, adds translation, place info ...
By Alexis Santos
Not content at stopping with its recent European tour, Google Play Books has made the trip to Japan and brought back a handful of new features. In.
Engadget
Google Books, movies and Nexus 7 tablet head to Japan ...
By Laura Hazard Owen
Google is now selling ebooks, movies and its Nexus 7 tablet in Japan. The company added Japanese reading features, such as the ability to read from right to left, to its Google Play Books Android app yesterday. The Nexus 7, on sale in Japan ...
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Here's the foreword to my new book. – Bad Science
By Ben Goldacre
The people you should have been able to trust to fix these problems have failed you, and because you have to understand a problem properly in order to fix it yourself, this book contains all that you need to know. So to be clear, this .... After a brief detour to discuss how some of the problems around bad evidence, and missing evidence, could be addressed, we move on to marketing, which is where most previous books on drug companies have focused their attention. Here we will see ...
Bad Science
Google Play Books update adds definitions, translations, and Maps ...
By Amar Toor
Google has updated its Books app for Android with a slew of new features, including in-text definitions, translations, and Google Maps integration. The updated Google Play Books app also makes it easier to highlight and add notes to any text, ...
The Verge - All Posts
The Late Movies: Wonderful Book Trailers - Mental Floss
By Andréa Fernandes
bloghead_latemovies.gif. I love how creative the book industry's marketing efforts have become. Gone — well, mostly gone — are the boring advertisements of old in which the author simply says a few words imploring you to read their book.
mental_floss
Tig Notaro Lands Deal for Autobiographical Essay Book - GalleyCat
By Jason Boog
Independent Publishers Group is looking for a Special Sales Associate. next job Cambridge University Press is looking for a Production Editor. next job Quirk Books is looking for a Writer/Editor. next job ABRAMS is looking for a Associate ...
GalleyCat
Google Play Books Adds a Host of New Features
By Sam Laird
Google Play Books has added some new features designed to enrich the online reading experience to its Android app.
Mashable
How we invented 'hackademic' book publishing | Media | guardian ...
By Roy Greenslade
Our invention of a new genre - or, at the least, sub-genre - of books on journalism began back in 2008. Richard Keeble, of the Lincoln School of Journalism, approached me to edit a special issue of Ethical Space, the journal he helped to ...
Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk
world's smallest book measures 70 micrometers
using a focused ion beam and scanning electron microscope, the world's smallest book is carved onto a microchip with its text line-weight measuring 42 nanometers.
Designboom - Weblog
Book News: J. K. Rowling's Neighbors, Will Oldham's Taste : The ...
By Rachel Arons
Locals from J. K. Rowling's hometown say the “snobby” villagers in “The Casual Vacancy” bear little resemblance to the members of their community. (Read Ian Parker's Profile of Rowling.) In the latest issue of Bookforum, Gideon Lewis-Kraus ...
Page-Turner
Google Play Books update adds highlighting, notes, dictionary and ...
By Quentyn Kennemer
Google Play Books update adds highlighting, notes, dictionary and more. posted on Sep 24th 2012 at 6:48pm by Quentyn Kennemer. Share This Story. If you've decided to go with Google's PlayBooks instead of the ever-so-popular Amazon Kindle ecosystem, a new upgrade for your Android application is now available. Google will give users the ability to highlight, define, translate, and add notes to any string of text in a given book. To access all of this functionality you simply tap and ...
Android Phone Fans
Life After Death, A Book by West Memphis Three's Damien Echols
By Rusty Blazenhoff
Life After Death is a recently published book that is West Memphis Three's Damien Echols account of living on death row for eighteen years (more info about the West Memphis Three). The New York Times praises the book and describes it as ...
Laughing Squid
PokerNews Book Review: Jon "tannenj" Tannen's Smashing Fewer ...
Book Review. It's been a while since I've had the chance to review a book. The last one was Jonathan Duhamel's Final Table in July. I was on the prowl for a new selection and opted for a bookthat caught my interest in the poker forums ...
Poker News
Flavorwire » Check Out Charles Dickens' Library of Fake Books
Check Out Charles Dickens' Library of Fake Books. by Emily ... 4 vols. Steele. By the Author of “Ion.” ... Commonplace Book of the Oldest Inhabitant. 2 vols.
www.flavorwire.com/.../charles-dickens-library-of-fake-books...
Idaho school will remove book amid parents' complaints ...
The Idaho Press-Tribune reports Nampa School Board Chairman Scott Kido received 15 emails Sunday about the book by Mexican author Laura Esquivel.
www.oregonlive.com/.../idaho_school_will_remove_book.ht...
The Mongoliad: Book Two (Excerpt) by Neal Stephenson,Greg Bear ...
An exclusive excerpt of emThe Mongoliad: Book Two/em, complete with two ... in the collectors editions of Books One and Two, out on October 30 from 47 North!
www.tor.com/stories/2012/.../the-mongoliad-book-two-excerp...
Interview: A.C. Arthur, author of 'Seduction's Shift ... - Books
After we took a nap I sat at the computer and saw books by other African- American authors. I thought, "Maybe I can publish a book." I'd been writing since high ...
books.usatoday.com/happyeverafter/post/2012-09-25/.../1
Retiring Sen. Snowe Of Maine Plans Book For 2013
NPR
The Maine Republican, who has cited Washington's partisan atmosphere as the reason she is stepping down this year, has a deal with Weinstein Books for a publication due out in the spring. Weinstein is billing the book, currently untitled, as a "memoir ...
Exclusive: JK Rowling takes career in new direction
USA TODAY
... inquiry into the press phone-hacking scandal, Rowling, 47, offers an intimate look into her life as one of the world's most beloved writers, one whose books have sold 450 million copies around the world (there are no numbers available on e-book sales).
How I Made My Memoir: Book Coming From Neil Patrick Harris
New York Times (blog)
And he can cross one more item off that agenda: the Crown Archetype imprint of Random House's Crown Publishing Group is expected to announce on Tuesday that it has acquired a new nonfiction book from Mr. Harris, the stage and screen performer; Emmy ...
New York Times (blog)
Clifford the Big Red Dog turns 50
Christian Science Monitor
The popular children's book series "Clifford the Big Red Dog," which follows the adventures of the giant dog of the title and his owner, Emily Elizabeth, recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. Skip to next paragraph ... To honor the dog and his ...
Christian Science Monitor
Google Play Books gets Maps integration plus cloud annotation
SlashGear
Meanwhile, there's still dictionary support, with tapping on a word bringing up a definition. Translation tools can convert foreign texts into your native language on the fly, though only on a per-paragraph basis rather than of the whole book in its ...
SlashGear
Long-lost noir masterpiece finally found
CNN
The book is "The Cocktail Waitress. The author is James M. Cain, best known for two noir masterpieces, "The Postman Always Rings Twice" and "Double Indemnity." Both books sold millions of copies and inspired classic movies. When Cain died in 1977, his ...
Book Review: Neil Young's Wandering Journey Through the Past
RollingStone.com
By the book's final stretch, Young is in a somber mood, circling back with increasing frequency to the many friends and family members he's outlived. "Some folks think that is not a good thing to think about," he writes poignantly of death. "I envy the ...
RollingStone.com
NW Books: the trials of Amanda Knox's boyfriend; a YA novel by Elizabeth George
The Seattle Times
"Honor Bound: My Journey to Hell and Back with Amanda Knox" by Raffaele Sollecito with Andrew Gumbel (Gallery Books, $26). The latest book to come out of the trials and troubles of Amanda Knox, this one told from the point of view of her boyfriend, ...
Fifty Shades Arouses More Than Book Sales
Forbes
... intimacy aids through a network of in-home parties, says the book has helped pave the way for a national discussion about sex and sexuality. “I love the fact that six months after the books hit U.S. shelves, people are still talking about them ...
Forbes
Sarah Palin's Father and Brother Hoping to Set ... - Fox News Insider
By Fox News Insider
And Heath Sr. said that out of the 100+ books written about his daughter, he believes only three have been accurate. “One guy wrote a book strictly from what he saw on the news and he saw in the paper. He never talked to her, never talked to ...
Fox News Insider
Good news for Stanza fans: It apparently works under Apple's new ...
By David Rothman
Just remember to store dupes of your books with Dropbox or another cloud-based system or the equivalent in case Stanza ends up broken in the future without a fix. Also, Stanza won't ... The Strand Book Store Fights Back · Kindle Paperwhite ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
Schwarzenegger to discuss new book this Sunday on 60 Minutes ...
By Holly Henry
... News · Contact · WTKR.com – Hampton Roads News & Weather from WTKR Television Newschannel 3 ... Up Next: News at Noon Schedule. Search ... Casey Wian explains how the bookalso touches on the actor and politicians failures.
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2012 National Book Festival Success | News Releases - Library of ...
News from the Library of Congress. Contact: ... 2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival Celebrates the Books that Shaped America. 12th Annual ...
www.loc.gov/today/pr/2012/12-180.html
Apple, publishers offer EU e-book antitrust settlement - Yahoo! News
Com Inc sell e-books at a discount, in a bid to end an EU antitrust ... Apple's e- book pricing deals with Simon & Schuster, News Corp unit HarperCollins, French ...
news.yahoo.com/apple-publishers-offer-settle-eu-antitrust-pro...
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