New York Times
BERLIN — The European Commission said Wednesday that it was prepared to drop its investigation into the fixing of e-book prices by Apple and four European publishers after the companies agreed to let online retailers like Amazon sell e-books at a ...
'Victim 1' book about Jerry Sandusky due in October-report
Reuters
NEW YORK, Sept 20 (Reuters) - The teenager who triggered the successful prosecution of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky for child sex abuse, has a book coming out next month, the New York Post reports. The 18-year-old, whose ...
Book Talk: Life on a desolate island from TC Boyle
Reuters
TOKYO, Sept 20 (Reuters) - In the latest novel by author T.C. Boyle, two families generations apart come to a starkly beautiful but isolated island off the coast of southern California, hoping to wrest new lives from the desolation. Though husbands and ...
Emma Thompson: By the Book
New York Times
What book is on your night stand now? “Mary Poppins,” by P. L. Travers. “Dancing to the Precipice,” by Caroline Moorehead. “Bring Up the Bodies,” by Hilary Mantel. I've always got two or three on the go. What was the last truly great book you read ...
Japanese Books Banned in China; Charles Dickens' Fake Library
The Atlantic Wire
Today in books and publishing: Veteran Knopf editor Ashbel Green dies; meet the movers in Brooklyn's book scene; how Norwegian publishing works. Japanese booksaren't welcome in Beijing. China's dispute with Japan over the Diaoyu Islands (or the ...
The Atlantic Wire
Book Review: Forge Of Darkness: Book One of The Kharkanas Trilogy by Steven ...
Blogcritics.org (blog)
Even the name given these titles of books or movies that tell the story of what came before bothers me. It's just a little too cute tying together previous and sequel into one word that actually means nothing at all. Aside from my abhorrence for all ...
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Tacoma man plans book about time jailed in Nicaragua
The Seattle Times
In an interview Wednesday, Puracal said he plans to write a book about his experience and pursue a graduate degree. But first, he hopes to recuperate and reconnect with his family, who spent about $500,000 on his defense and an innocence campaign led ...
The Seattle Times
Book News: Neurobiology of Skimming, Writing Across Race : The ...
By Rachel Arons
Longtime Knopf editor Ashbel Green has died, at the age of eighty-four. “Writers like Krugman are prized in the world of publishing—possessing gravitas, while remaining sound investments because of their substantial popularity. The future of ...
Page-Turner
News Roundup — Links to Start Your Day | TeleRead: News and ...
By Joanna Cabot
Molly Froats on "Associated Press removes hyphen from email; is e-book next? - Posted on September 19, 2012. "I love to read on my iPhone. I read full length books, news, anything I can get my hands on. Recently, I have been reading ..." ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
South Korea bans Marquis de Sade book | New York Daily News
By Page Views
The ban comes as Americans commemorate Banned Books Week. According to the AFP newsservice, the Korean Publication Ethics Commission charged that the book was "extremely obscene and cruel, involving acts of sadism, incest, ...
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Jewel on New Book, How Motherhood Has ... - Fox News Insider
By Fox and Friends
Four-time Grammy nominated singer-songwriter Jewel has launched a new career as an author. The new mother recently wrote a children's book called, 'That's What I'd Do.' She talked about the career change and motherhood on Fox and ...
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Apple, publishers settle EU e-book antitrust investigation | iLounge ...
By Phil Dzikiy
The New iPad Buyers' Guide. News ... EU regulators had examined Apple's e-book pricing deals, including contract clauses that disallowed publishers from selling e-books for prices lower than those set by Apple. Apple and the publishers ...
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Release Date Set for Stephen King's Shining Sequel :: Books ...
Watch King read an excerpt from Doctor Sleep at last year's Fall for the Book festival here. Gotnews tips for Paste ? Email news@pastemagazine.com.
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New book says you don't have to be a star to shine
San Francisco Chronicle
Author Janice Min, editorial director of The Hollywood Reporter, cut her teeth at celebrity weeklies, including People and Us Weekly magazines. She combines her firsthand experience as a mother of three with her inside scoop on how some divas dazzle ...
San Francisco Chronicle
'Fatal Vision' author to testify as court revisits 1970 murder case
Fox News
McGinnis' 1983 book "Fatal Vision," which inspired a TV mini-series the following year, portrays the former Army doctor as the killer of his pregnant wife and two young daughters in 1970. But MacDonald hopes to overturn his 1979 murder conviction as a ...
Two Nora Ephron titles to be published as single volume and as e-books
New York Daily News (blog)
Nora Ephron's essay collections, “Crazy Salad: Some Things about Women” and “Scribble, Scribble: Notes on Media,” which have been out of print for more than 20 years, will be reissued by VintageBooks as a single-volume paperback next month. It will ...
Sheila Bair Book Excerpt: Bank Bailout 'Plagues Me To This Day'
Huffington Post
The former chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, in a new book about the financial crisis, says she worries that forcing the biggest U.S. banks to take $125 billion in government money in October 2008 caused more problems than it solved.
Monica Lewinsky gets reported $12 million for memoir
Los Angeles Times
She was interviewed for the book by author Andrew Morton, whose unauthorized biographies include the somewhat scandalous "Diana, Her True Story" about the former Princess of Wales. The newbook is rumored to have three things that the earlier one did ...
Obamacare's author defends law in Denver
Fox 31 KDVR.com
Obamacare's author defends law in Denver. Posted on: 11:29 am, September 20, 2012, by Eli Stokols. zekeemanuel. DENVER — Zeke Emanuel, considered one of the architects of Obamacare, touted the law's benefits here Thursday morning at a forum ...
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Book buzz: Bob Woodward, 'Cloud Atlas,' 'Winter's Tale' resold
USA TODAY
But war trumps economics when it comes to the popularity of non-fiction books, at least insider accounts by Bob Woodward. He lands on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list at No. 11 with The Price of Politics, about ... This week, the e-book edition ...
25 years of asking, Where's Waldo?
Los Angeles Times
"Where's Waldo?" landed on the American Library Assn.'s list of most challenged books for an image that appeared in the original 1987 picture book: A topless sunbather's breast was exposed in a beach scene crowded with hundreds of other beachgoers.
JK Rowling's latest — and breakfast
Chicago Tribune
A new J.K. Rowling book is out. Gotcha! Here you are, thinking, "Oh, wait … I thought that Harry Potter business was done?" It is. But Rowling is turning her attention to grown-ups with "The Casual Vacancy," a novel about a town at war — everybody ...
'Captured Heart' author Heather McCollum, Teal Warrior Princess
USA TODAY
Captured Heart author Heather McCollum beats cancer … I'll just let you get to her story. Heather: As a writer, my days are filled with words. They describe who I am. Mommy, wife, girlfriend, author, daughter, PTA member. In 2011 words swirled daily:...
USA TODAY
Macy Gray Reinterprets The Stevie Wonder Classic "TALKING BOOK"
Sacramento Bee
Coming hot on the heels of her stunning 429 Records' debut "COVERED"—a collection of all new recordings of handpicked songs she delivers in her own inimitable fashion, "TALKING BOOK" will be released to coincide with the 40th Anniversary of the ...
'Victim 1' plans book, interview on Sandusky abuse
USA TODAY
The youth credited with launching the child sexual abuse investigation against former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky will soon publish a "tell-all" book and give his first media interview to ABC, according to news reports. The New York Post reported ...
Local author on “NC Bookwatch”
StarNewsOnline.com (blog)
“Nancy Collins, who lives and writes in Wilmington, built a following around her book “VAMP” and a couple of sequels. A “VAMP” is like a “Vampire-American Princess.” I learned about Collins from Ben Steelman, the discerning literary critic and writer ...
Naomi Wolf Sparks Another Debate (on Sex, of Course)
New York Times
Meghan Daum wrote in her column in The Los Angeles Times that “Vagina” is “bad news for everybody who has one,” while in her 2,700-word excoriation in The New York Times Book Review, Toni Bentley called it “scattered” and “humorless.” About the only ...
New York Times
Fifty Shades of Grey Author Hints At Cameo; Stays Silent On Leads
Movieline
So what is a wildly successful author to do as an encore? Well, be in the movie of course! Britishauthor E.L. James, the mind behind the ever-so-hot Fifty Shades of Grey series said on the Katie Couric daytime talk show that she is eyeing a possible ...
Zola Books Begins Rollout of its E-tailing Site
Publishers Weekly
Also for authors, Zola Books offers the potential for an exclusive sales platform for e-books (Audrey Niffenegger will release the e-book for The Time Traveler's Wife through Zola Books on October 10). For publishers, once the retail aspect happens in ...
Arnold Schwarzenegger's Book Has A Trailer For Some Reason
Houston Press (blog)
Pictures Of Arnold Schwarzenegger Ever. Trailers for books -- like those used for movies -- are not uncommon these days, with some of the action even played out like with moving pictures and stuff for people who don't like using their brains to imagine ...
Book Recommends No Tackle Football, Soccer Headers for U-14 Kids
Education Week News (blog)
Now, in a new book just published Tuesday, "Concussions and Our Kids," Cantu lays out a number of potentially controversial recommendations to help prevent youth-sports concussions, including restricting youth-athletes under the age of 14 from playing ...
The rather political Lviv Book Forum
The Economist (blog)
The four days was a celebration of book culture and, since most of the books were in Ukrainian, of the Ukrainian language itself. Stalls groaned under the weight of luscious picture books, academic manuals, and doorstoppers housing the classics of ...
The Economist (blog)
Sell your e-books for free with Payhip
CNET (blog)
This step is optional in the case that you want to wait and see if any e-books sell before disclosing your PayPal information to a third-party Web site. Step 3: Click on the Add new ebook button so you can start adding your content to the site. (Credit ...
Diller embraces e-book business
Vancouver Sun
The two media impresarios are teaming up on a new e-book publishing venture called Brightline. To get their digital effort off the ground, the pair is partnering with Atavist, a Brooklyn-based startup that in the course of a little over a year has ...
Renowned author Tim O'Brien featured speaker this week at Sierra Nevada ...
Sierra Sun
O'Brien's later novel in stories — “The Things They Carried” — received the National Magazine Award, and was named one of the twenty best books of the last quarter century by the New York Times. Its title refers to the things a ... O'Brien received ...
About Books: Journalists' book follows three medical school journeys
Canton Repository
“In 2005, author Jacqueline Marino and photojournalist Tim Harrison had the unprecedented opportunity to chronicle the experiences of three students as they learned to become doctors at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine,” the ...
BOOK REVIEW:'John Quincy Adams'
Washington Times
He read an enormous number of books, mastered languages, scouted new fields of study and never complained of the academic overload. In 1777, the Continental Congress awarded the title of commissioner to Adams senior and asked him to go to Paris to ...
Washington Times
Apple and publishers subpoena Amazon in ebook pricing case ...
By Laura Hazard Owen
With the ebook pricing settlement recently approved, and the Department of Justice's trial against Apple, Macmillan and Penguin set to begin next June, Apple has subpoenaed Amazon in a Washington State court.
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Apple says it will stop ebook price fixing in Europe | TUAW - The ...
By Megan Lavey-Heaton
In a move that looks hopeful for the American market, Apple has vowed to stop fixing ebook prices in Europe, Macworld reports. As part of the agreement, Apple will terminate the agency-pricing agreements with the five companies involved in ...
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
How The Big Six Book Publishers Are Using Social Media
By Richard MacManus
So far in the series we've looked at the largest social network for book lovers (Goodreads), a new social network for book writers (Writer's Bloq), how public libraries use social media, and whetherbook highlights are being successfully socialized . We've learned so far that almost everything to do with books - writing them, reading them, borrowing them, making highlights in them - has been impacted by Web technologies. So surely the biggest ... The Author & Reader Take Center Stage ...
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Book Bag
By Design Mom
Book Bag. September 20, 2012. What a cute project! Kate transformed a book into a little clutch, with just enough space for a cellphone and favorite lipstick. She includes the whole tutorial here if you'd like to make one too. For family outings, I ...
Design Mom
Judging Greg Smith's book by its cover | Felix Salmon
By Felix Salmon
books. We don't know much about the new book by Greg Smith, Why I Left Goldman Sachs. But we do know what its cover looks like. And there's no mistaking the fact that the font on the cover of the book is very similar to the font used in the ...
Felix Salmon
MoMA | The Tyranny of the Alphabet Book
By Jennifer Tobias
A is for A show I just Assembled About Artists' Alphabet books. Each letter of the Alphabet is represented by A book. You'll be Amazed how many different ways that Artists interpret the ABCs. B is for the Books, of course. They were fun to Bring ...
Inside/Out
A VC: Two Must Read Books For The AVC Community
By Fred
And there are two books out this week that are must reads on these two topics. Further and in full disclosure, they are ... You can get it on Kindle today and or pre-order the book for delivery next week. On to Future Perfect by Steven Johnson.
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Paris Review – Fake Books, Fictional Detectives, Sadie Stein
By Sadie Stein
In a rediscovered Agatha Christie document, the author admits to a love-hate relationship with her creation, the debonair Belgian detective Poirot, and critiques other mystery writers. The Marquis de Sade wanted ... “Wanting for some unknown reason to fill a space in his study with a selection of false books—complete with witty names he thought up himself—[Dickens] wrote to a bookbinder with a list of 'imitation book-backs' to be created specially for his bookshelf.” Now, the New York ...
The Paris Review
Warren Ellis » A Non-Fiction Book
By Warren Ellis
Author of RED, CROOKED LITTLE VEIN and forthcoming GUN MACHINE, Warren Ellis's SPIRIT TRACKS, about the future of the city, the ghosts that haunt it and the science-fiction condition we live in, to Sean McDonald at Farrar, Straus, ...
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The Medical Book by Clifford A. Pickover - Neatorama
By Miss Cellania
Last year, I was treated to The Physics Book by Clifford A Pickover, which took a huge and sometimes-difficult subject and broke it down into delightful bite-sized pieces anyone can understand. This year, Dr. Pickover has done the exact same ...
Neatorama
Apple, publishers subpoena Amazon in ebook price case
By Ed Sutherland
Apple is asking the Department of Justice to turn over interviews it held with Amazon employees as part of the recently-approved ebook pricing settlement. ... Although it's unclear how important Apple views the Amazon interview transcripts, the e -book seller must consider the contents worthy of a court battle. Details of the discussions with the DOJ surfaced after Amazon tried to quash the request in a Seattle court. Apple, meanwhile, wants to bring the case to the Southern District of ...
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Author Index
DeCock, K. M. (Policy Forum). Abstract · Full Text. Decourtye, Axel (Technical Comments). Summary · Full Text. DeNardis, Laura (Books et al.) Abstract · Full Text ...
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