Google and publishers settle book-scanning dispute

Google, publishers settle book-scanning dispute
Los Angeles Times
Google and U.S. publishers have settled a longstanding dispute over Google's book-scanning project. A lawsuit filed by authors remains, though, leaving the project in question. The Association of American Publishers and Google Inc. announced their ...

Celebrating banned books
Murray Ledger and Times
My old librarian comes to mind because this is Banned Book Week, an annual event that celebrates the freedom to read. According to the American Library Association (ALA) website, the week “highlights the value of free and open access to information ...

Book Talk: Novel looks at rape through lens of sports
Reuters
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Not many authors have the kind of success seen by Australian Paul D. Carter, who took nine years to write his first novel - only to have it scoop a major award. "All Seasons", which won the Australian/Vogel Literary Award earlier ...

Book: Obama backed bin Laden trial
Philadelphia Inquirer
WASHINGTON - A new book says President Obama hoped to put Osama bin Laden on trial, showing the U.S. commitment to due process under law, if the al-Qaeda leader had surrendered during a U.S. raid in Pakistan last year. In The Finish, Mark Bowden, ...

Book Review: 'Telegraph Avenue' by Michael Chabon
New York Times (blog)
One of the book's most pivotal and referenced scenes is a brief cameo by Barack Obama. It's August of 2004, just after Mr. Obama's seminal Democratic National Convention speech. In that speech, Mr. Chabon explained in a phone interview, Mr. Obama ...

Book buzz: JK Rowling, Neil Young, 'The Chew' make list news
USA TODAY
'Casual' collection: J.K. Rowling's post-Harry Potter novel for grown-ups, The Casual Vacancy, lands on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list at No. 1 and is her first book to be simultaneously published in hardcover and as a less expensive e-book. But ...

Better book now: Thanksgiving airline seats, cheap fares going fast
Detroit Free Press
So unless you want the leftovers, book now. “Of course, there will be last-minute sales, but you'll only get the middle seats on the 6 a.m. connecting flight rather than a nice seat on an 11 a.m. nonstop,” said George Hobica, founder of AirfareWatchdog ...

Lena Dunham Book Deal Skyrockets To $3.6 Million: Report
Huffington Post
Slate's David Haglund reported on Monday that Dunham's book deal had a set an "in-house floor of $1 Million” for U.S. rights to the book. Dunham told the online magazine: “There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one ...

Banned Books Topic At Southington Library Program
Hartford Courant
SOUTHINGTON — — What do "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," the Quran and the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary have in common? They are three of the dozens of books in recent decades that people have said should not be available to the ...

Celebrate Banned Books Week with 2011s Most Challenged Titles ...
30 marked the beginning of the 30th annual Banned Books Week. ... According to Banned BookWeek's website, “More than 11,300 books have been challenged since 1982… ... Got news tips for Paste ? Email news@pastemagazine.com.
Paste Magazine

Book: Obama hoped to try bin Laden, if caught - Army News | News ...
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A new book says President Barack Obama hoped to put Osama bin Laden on trial, showing the U.S. commitment to due process under law, if the al-Qaida leader had surrendered during a U.S. raid in Pakistan last year.
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Google, publishers settle book-scanning dispute
USA TODAY
Google already has scanned more than 20 million books. Publishers and authors sued, saying the project violated their copyrights. Authors' and publishers' groups had settled with Google before, but a federal judge tossed the deal following objections.

Book of rare Beatles photos offers inside peek at iconic band
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The heyday of Beatlemania may have been nearly 50 years ago, but the Beatles and their music remain loved, scrutinized and relevant to an adoring public forever clamoring for more details of the Fab Four. A new book, "LIFE With the ...

This Is Why We Celebrate Banned Books Week
Patheos (blog)
In my own library each year, we celebrate Banned Books Week with a showy shelf display and signs encouraging students to check out a “banned book.” In doing so, I trick students into reading my favorite classics, like “Native Son,” “The Color Purple ...

Book: Obama hoped to try bin Laden, if captured
New York Daily News
A new book says President Barack Obama hoped to put Osama bin Laden on trial, showing the U.S. commitment to due process under law, if the al-Qaida leader had surrendered during a U.S. raid in Pakistan last year. In "The Finish," journalist Mark Bowden ...

What Else Should Nate Silver Predict?
Slate Magazine
It must have taken superhuman will for New York Times “FiveThirtyEight” blogger and columnist Nate Silver to avoid quoting Yogi Berra in the course of writing his engaging and sophisticated new book, The Signal and the Noise, especially because the ...

Slate Magazine

Review: 'The Warrior's Heart' gives a Navy SEAL's life lessons
Los Angeles Times
Eric Greitens came from the humblest of beginnings to become a Rhodes scholar, a national boxing champion, a PhD, a Navy SEAL, an Iraq war veteran, a humanitarian and a bestselling author from writing about his experiences. Now the ... In a young-adult ...

Book by Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg Will Be Published in March
New York Times (blog)
Knopf has set a publication date of March 2013 for a new book by Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, that was written “to encourage women to aspire to and pursue leadership roles,” the publisher said on Thursday. “Lean In: Women ...

Author Sheila Connolly on mystery of writing romance
USA TODAY
That book, Once She Knew (Beyond the Page Publishing), was chosen for the Barnes & Noble Nook First Look program, which features "compelling books by authors you need to know." Sheila: Once upon a time I wanted to be a romance writer. I thought it ...

Book review: 'Panorama City' by Antoine Wilson
Los Angeles Times
Wilson, an L.A.-based author whose well-reviewed debut novel, "The Interloper," featured an obsessive and unreliable narrator, keeps "Panorama City" brisk and unpretentiously scruffy. Porter's aunt is a welcome check on his goofier impulses. There's ...

Book Talk: Novel looks at rape through lens of sports
Chicago Tribune
Carter spoke with Reuters about his book, which he said was his attempt to "write a book about football that non-football followers could appreciate." Q: While football is clearly a strong theme in your book, there are many more elements to it, what ...

Arnold Schwarzenegger's tell-all book takes bad taste to a new level
Minneapolis Star Tribune
And yet, after putting his family through all of that, after Maria filed for divorce and his family exploded, the 38th governor of the great state of California still thinks it's appropriate to memorialize the whole thing in book form and blab about it ...

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Japan author, "spooky" science up for cut-price Nobels
Chicago Tribune
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Japanese author who writes of love and isolation, researchers into "spooky" quantum physics and experts on economic inequality have all been tipped as possible Nobel Prize-winners ahead of the start to the annual awards on ...

Robin Sloan, Digital Guru, Takes a Journey Into Print
New York Times
But on Tuesday morning he arrived at the Grolier Club, a redoubt of rare bookcollectors on East 60th Street in Manhattan, prepared to talk — mostly very quickly — about the joys of old-fashioned paper and ink. Dressed in a black Patagonia pullover ...

New York Times

Google, publishers shelve book-scanning suit
San Francisco Chronicle
One of the reasons that settlement unraveled was because it would have given Google broad authority to copy books, unless an author or publisher notified the company not to make the duplicate. Terms of the new settlement weren't divulged, but it won't ...

San Francisco Chronicle

Greater Boston author readings Oct. 7-13
Boston.com (blog)
Ave., Cambridge ($35 ticket includes book) … Joanne Harris (“Peaches for Father Francis”) reads at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Hank Phillippi Ryan (“The Other Woman”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books … Philip McFarland (“Mark Twain and the ...

Alameda author shares great-aunt through diaries
San Jose Mercury News
On Oct. 12, she'll do a book reading and signing at Books, Inc. where fans are encouraged to come in Roaring Twenties attire. That night, Tracey's daughter, Mia Romero, a professional actor, will perform a playlet from a one-woman show about Murphy ...

Friends of Mohr an open book at weekend sale
Johnston Sun Rise
Daniella Dodd, a sophomore at Johnston High School, stood in front of a huge selection of books in the lower level of the Marian J. Mohr Memorial Library. She was browsing through a collection that was specially priced last Saturday and Sunday for ...

Johnston Sun Rise

Book: The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time
Business Insider
The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time – with a Foreword by Jim Collins — is Verne Harnish's latest book. Author of the ever popular Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, Verne along with some of the top writers and editors at Fortune magazine, share ...

Kate Gosselin Book Controversy: Did Jon Steal Hard Drive For Tell-All's Author?
The Hollywood Gossip
Comments 0. Jon Gosselin secretly gave the author of a new Kate Gosselin book computer hard drives containing deeply personal information, according to an explosive new report. Jonathan Gosselin Photo · Kate Gosselin Angry. Two law firms say Robert ...

Jeffrey Eugenides: By the Book
New York Times
His book “Platform,” which is about sex tourism and Islamic terrorism, got him sued in France. What's less appreciated is how acute he is on the subjects of business and the macro effects of global capitalism. His books are the strangest confections ...

Book Cover Design: Susan Zucker Discusses Rejected Covers For 'American ...
Huffington Post
She is central to much that happens in the book. The beautiful hardcover, designed by Julianna Lee, captures a turning point crisis of conscious moment but the design direction for the paperback was to focus on the relationship between these two key ...

Book Review: Odyssey of a Gemini: Autobiography of a Baby Boomer by BK
Blogcritics.org (blog)
My first impression of this compelling book, Odyssey of a Gemini, was to wonder why the author did not use his full name. Why only the initials ... The mystery continues throughout the book and the reader is never privy to the author's real name ...

Blogcritics.org (blog)

'Star Wars Reads' invasion of schools, bookstores, libraries, set for Saturday
Kansas City Star
“It's what will get kids reading material they wouldn't otherwise — or reading types ofbooks that they wouldn't have otherwise,” said Pablo Hidalgo, author of the new “'Star Wars': The Essential Reader's Companion.” He remembers reading the original ...

Kansas City Star

Google settles with publishers over digital books
NBCNews.com (blog)
Google and a group of publishers have agreed to a settlement over making digital copies of books, capping seven years of litigation involving the search giant's mission to become the world's library. Google and the Association of American Publishers ...

MVDRV's Book Mountain
Archinect
(Spijkenisse, October 4th, 2012): Today Spijkenisse Book Mountain and the adjacent residential neighbourhood will be opened by Prinses Laurentien of the Netherlands. Manifesting itself clearly as a mountain of books on the towns market square, it is ...

Archinect

Children's book addresses the perks of losing
NorthJersey.com
1, "Sally Sore Loser" was among 11 selected books by the award-winning publishing house that receives thousands annually, and it's already brewing positive reviews. Olympic Gold Medalist Mitch Gaylord called the book "spot on" in helping children ...

NorthJersey.com

Book Mountain: MVDRV Unveils Massive Monument to Reading in ...
By Bridgette Meinhold
The new facility has space for 15,000 books on shelves made from recycled flower pots. Book Mountain is encased in a pyramid of glass that infiltrates the space with tons of daylighting, but don't worry about UV damage to the books. Because ...
INHABITAT

MVRDV: book mountain + library quarter, spijkenisse
rotterdam-based MVRDV has just completed the 'book mountain + library quarter' centrally located in the market square of spijkenisse, the netherlands. a mountain of bookshelves is contained by a glass-enclosed structure and pyramidal roof ...
Designboom - Weblog

Schwarzenegger to sign books at Mall of America | MinnPost
By Joe Kimball
Film star and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is at the Mall of America Thursday night to sign his memoir, "Total Recall."Mall rules say those planning to get a signed copy must buy thebook from the Mall's Barnes & Noble store.
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Kate Gosselin Keeping Mum On New Book Alleging Shocking Child ...
By Radar Staff Kate Gosselin is keeping mum about the new tell-all book alleging shocking child abuse claims, which was penned by Jon Gosselin's pal. The mom-of-eight told Katie Couric on Wednesday that she has been told by her lawyers ...
Radar Online

Rovio Flies Into Frankfurt To Unveil Its First Book App: Expect Lots Of ...
By Ingrid Lunden
That's all changing come next week, when Rovio will unveil its first effort in the e-book app market. And it's choosing one of the biggest events on the publishing world calendar — the Frankfurt Book ...What will be interesting to see is how Rovio flies the “book app” format: there have been e-books that are effectively facsimiles of printed books and mobile apps that are games and clearly not books. Where book apps really stand out is when they combine a reading (often word-based) ...
TechCrunch

I Read Banned Books …
By Jillian Steinhauer
We would be remiss if we didn't pay at least a short tribute to Banned Books Week, an annual celebration of books and literacy and the freedom for everyone to read whatever the hell he or she wants.
Hyperallergic

Historian Brad Gregory wins inaugural book prize // News // Notre ...
By Kate Cohorst
University of Notre Dame historian Brad Gregory has been awarded the inaugural Aldersgate Prize for Christian Scholarship for his latest book, “The Unintended Reformation: How...
Notre Dame News // Notre Dame News

Book Party for Molly Ringwald's Novel, "When It Happens to You ...
By Judith Thurman
Many stars publish books, and a few even write them. A majority of these productions are memoirs or self-improvement ... On a recent Saturday night, the actress Molly Ringwald hosted a book party at the Crosby Hotel, in SoHo, for her first novel, “When It Happens to You.” Something incredible has happened to Ringwald: at forty-four, ... The only hint to the author's celebrity was an unusually lavish outlay of books on a buffet table. “They're free, take one,” a publicist urged a guest, who ...
Culture Desk

NewsDaily: Japan author, "spooky" science up for cut-price Nobels
By Patrick Lannin
A Japanese author who writes of love and isolation, researchers into "spooky" quantum physics and experts on economic inequality have all been tipped as possible Nobel Prize-winners ahead of the start to the annual awards on Monday.
NewsDaily: Science Headlines

Irving Adler, Author of Kids' Science, Math Books, Dies at 99 | School ...
By Rocco Staino
When asked how he chose his topics, Adler told the Horn Book that his “primary goal is to present scientific ideas so simply that they can be followed and understood by an unsophisticated reader.” One of his most popular books was The Giant ...
School Library Journal

A Chat with Picture Book Author Lauren ... - Welcome to blaine.org
By jules
This morning over in Kirkus' Book Blog Network, I chat with author Lauren Thompson, pictured here, about her latest picture book. Lauren has written many picture books over the years that I've enjoyed — and shared with my own children.
Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast

Google settles book-scanning claim with book publishers ...
Google already has scanned more than 20 million books. ... the fact that books were included unless Google was informed that an author or publisher objected.
www.oregonlive.com/.../google_settles_book-scanning_c.html

Google, U.S. Publishers Settle Lawsuit Over Book-Scanning ...
'Girls' Creator Lena Dunham Seeking $1 Million for Book (Report) ... or choose to remove their booksand journals digitized by Google for its Library Project.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/.../google-us-publishers-settle-la...

Lena Dunham on verge of $3.6M book deal - Salon.com
The "Girls" creator is poised to conquer the book world as well. ... After bidding for her bookproposal “Not That Kind of Girl” started at $1 million, Deadline.com is ...
www.salon.com/2012/10/04/lena...on...of.../singleton/

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