Reuters
Depp, the Oscar-nominated actor known for films ranging from "Edward Scissorhands" and the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series to the recent "Dark Shadows," will focus on books that reflect his interests and passions, providing a home for "outspoken and ...
London City book fair looks to cash in on crisis literature
Reuters
"Particularly now after we've gone through the credit crunch, the banking crisis and now we've got the euro crisis, there are so many books coming out at the moment," said event director Matthew Clements to Reuters. "There's so much to talk about in ...
Book buzz: Johnny Depp dives into publishing, Mike Tyson writes memoir
USA TODAY
Johnny Depp imprint: He played writer Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and co-wrote liner notes for the documentary of Thompson's life, but here's a first: Johnny Depp is launching a book imprint, called Infinitum Nihil. Planned ...
Amazon rebates could help Kindle owners support local authors
Examiner.com
View slideshow: Books by local authors available from Amazon. "Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon and Schuster have settled an antitrust lawsuit on e-book prices that was brought by state and territorial Attorneys General, Amazon explained in an email ...
'Book Thief' is stealing center stage
Chicago Tribune
Like the 22 books that preceded it, Markus Zusak's “The Book Thief” was chosen for the Chicago Public Library's One Book, One Chicago fall selection based on its literary merit and universal themes that would appeal to the widest range of readers. But ...
Chicago Tribune
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series coming as ebooks -- finally
Baltimore Sun (blog)
The first six books in the wildy popular series about meek middle schooler Greg Heffley will be available to download Oct. 30. The latest, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel," will be released as an ebook and hardcover on Nov. 13. All of the ebooks ...
Johnny Depp Is Launching A Book Publishing Imprint
Huffington Post
So far, the forthcoming titles seem to fit the bill. In January, the imprint will publish folk singer Woody Guthrie's 1947 novel, House of Earth. The musician never actually sought publication for hisbook about economic disputes between ordinary ...
Book turns planetary science into art
NBCNews.com (blog)
His earlier books, "Beyond" (2003) and "Far Out" (2009), presented imagery from planetary probes and deep-space views, respectively. At first, Benson thought he'd just update the "Beyond" book for a new edition. "But then I thought it would be fun to ...
Book review: Growing close, toward the end, over books
Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Books had always been a way for my mother and me to introduce and explore topics that concerned us but made us uneasy," writes Will Schwalbe in his new memoir, "The End of Your Life Book Club" (Alfred A. Knopf, 336 pages, $25). In the autumn of 2007,...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Felix Baumgartner jumps into history books
Washington Post
Felix Baumgartner jumps into history books. WashingtonPost. Subscribe Subscribed Unsubscribe. Loading... 568 videos. Loading... Alert icon. You need Adobe Flash Player to watch this video. Download it from Adobe. Alert icon. Close. Upgrade to the ...
Book by Disgruntled Ex-Salesman Offers His Analysis of the Culture at Goldman
New York Times
In the first chapter of his book “Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story,” Mr. Smith writes that interns carried the stool with them at all times because there were no spare chairs on the trading floor. The stool, he said, was a Goldman status ...
New York Times
Book details Cherry Point's role in Cuban Missile Crisis
New Bern Sun Journal
H. Wayne Whitten, a retired Marine colonel once based at Cherry Point, has chronicled the base's involvement as well as other aspects of the crisis in a new book, “Countdown to 13 Days and Beyond.” Whitten details how a U-2 spy plane captured images of ...
Rachel Held Evans, Evangelical Author, Uses The Word Vagina, Has Book ...
Huffington Post
On the other hand, LifeWay has allowed other "less-than-clinical" references to male and female body parts--in books written by male authors, including popular Seattle megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll's recent book "Real Marriage." Driscoll's advice ...
Thud! Phone books still have 1st Amendment protection
Los Angeles Times
"But times have changed, and today phone books, like land-line telephones themselves, are not so universally accepted." Spokespersons for San Francisco and Seattle said they are still reviewing the ruling. But a trade association that represents phone ...
Chicagoland book clubs
Chicago Tribune
3 Classics in One Year Book Club. Our book club is a Facebook book club. We chat on our Facebook page throughout the year and meet three times a year for the grand finale at one of our homes. We started with 45 people who resolved to read "Anna ...
Book Review: Red Rain by RL Stine
Huffington Post (blog)
Stine has written a really scary book, where seemingly impossible situations occur, yet, somehow, he makes them believable. His technique is brilliant in its simplicity: By intertwining other (normal) storylines with tales of the supernatural, Stine ...
BOOK REVIEW: 'Mortality'
Washington Times
This must have been a very hard book to write. Of course, once Christopher Hitchens had been struck with advanced cancer of the esophagus, his very life became difficult. There was nothing he could do about that, but writing about it was a choice, and ...
eBook Settlement Could Mean Money for You
NBC Connecticut
If you made an eBook purchase through Apple or Sony, you will have received emails showing the sender as “State Attorneys General E-book Settlement,” with the email addressAdministrator@vertismail.com. These are legitimate emails authorized by the ...
The Delicious New Book on Le Cirque: It's Picture Perfect... Joy Behar Is More ...
Huffington Post
This was Le Cirque's glamourous kick-off for the new massive coffee table book about the history of the famed Maccioni family and a pictorial grab-bag of presidents, kings, queens, social VIPs down the ages as Sirio, the man from Montecatini in Tuscany ...
Mark Z. Danielewski Shares Enhanced eBook Creation Advice
mediabistro.com
Mark Z. Danielewski released a complex digital version of The Fifty Year Sword today, creating an interactive eBook for his ghost story. We asked the author of House of Leaves what it was like proofreading his intricate digital book. He replied: Over ...
mediabistro.com
Boston Teen Author Festival, Boston, Oct. 28
Boston.com (blog)
Young adult books have never been hotter than they are right now (come on, you know you read YA, admit it), and this festival gives YA a chance to shine. In a first-of-its-kind event in our literary city, the Boston Teen Author Festival is a unique ...
Roni Loren on the 'Fifty Shades' effect on book covers
USA TODAY (blog)
2012 - National best-selling author Roni Loren shares an exclusive reveal of the new covers on thebooks in her Loving on the Edge series from Berkley Heat. Still Into You is out now, Fall Into You arrives in January and Caught Up in You lands in August.
NW Books: 'A Fool's Gold Christmas,' 'Foxfire,' 'Closer to the Ground'
The Seattle Times
New books of Seattle interest: a dancer breaks her leg and looks for a different future; a family moves from a Seattle high-rise to the woods to get closer to nature; a shape-shifter travels to Japan to try to uncover the secret to cure her boyfriend ...
Gripping New Book Details Origins of AIDS, SARS, Ebola and Other Diseases ...
Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
Tuesday (10/16), at the Academy of Natural Sciences, author David Quammen, will talk about his new book Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. My human and I have been reading it together and highly recommend this book.
Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
If Stephen Colbert's new book doesn't have the answers you must be the problem
Examiner.com
Late night comedic talk show host Stephen Colbert has dropped a much needed guidebook onto the American political and sociological landscape with his third book, America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't. And three seems to be his lucky ...
Examiner.com
Jimmy Kimmel Books David Letterman, Lifelong Idol, on his Show ...
By Lacey Rose
Jimmy Kimmel Books Lifelong Idol David Letterman on His Show. 4:16 PM PDT 10/15/2012 by Lacey Rose. share. Comments ( ) ... "I mean, I'd draw Dave's face on every book cover. I was like a teenage girl in love with him," Kimmel joked ...
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Book News: E-Book Refund, Mitt's Rewrite : The New Yorker
By Rachel Arons
Pope Benedict XVI has signed a book deal for the third volume in his “Jesus of Nazareth” trilogy, which will focus on the Gospel accounts of Jesus' infancy and childhood....
Page-Turner
Switching consumers to digital books is hard enough — get ready ...
By Eliza Kern
“Even books, which is an easier transition for people, is a difficult task. When we started, we didn't look at who was selling digital books at the time, we looked at the print book,” Grandinetti said. “Because it's lightweight, it's resilient, ...
GigaOM
Q&A: Converting Word Files Into an E-book - NYTimes.com
By By J.D. BIERSDORFER
Saving the documents as ePub files lets them function more like e-books, with the ability to adjust text size and font. An e-book utility program to convert Word documents to ePub files can do the job; Calibre is one such program and has ...
Gadgetwise
Johnny Depp Gets Into Publishing; Bob Dylan Book 1st For Imprint ...
By Brian Brooks
And a Bob Dylan book is the first to usher in Depp's foray into the book world. The Unraveled Tales of Bob Dylan will "set the record straight" on the legendary songwriter's life and career. It is based in part on interviews with Dylan by ...
Movieline
Ask the author: Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor, Jr. on Mismatch ...
By Kali Borkoski
Ask the author: Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor, Jr. on Mismatch. On October 9, Basic Books released Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It, a new book by Richard Sander ...
SCOTUSblog
Johnny Depp, HarperCollins Team on Infintum Nihil Book Imprint ...
By Andy Lewis
In January, Infintum Nihil will publish House of the Earth, a recently discovered novel by folk legend Woody Guthrie, which comes at the end of a year of celebrations for the centennial of his birth. Guthrie, who died in 1967, completed the novel ...
Movies
Christian Author Spends 1 Year Taking the Bible's - The Blaze
By Billy Hallowell
After launching what she claims was a 12-month experiment to obey the holy book's commandments for women she penned “A Year of Biblical Womanhood,” a book documenting the entire experience. Evans held true to the explicit and ...
TheBlaze.com - Stories
Top 100 Government Waste Offenders Listed in Book - Politics ...
Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn's Waste Book 2012 listing the 100 worse abuses of government spending will be released Tuesday. Some examples listed in the book this year include: - NASA spending nearly $1 million a year researching food ...
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Author advances: Ghost writers | The Economist
By A.E.S.
Author advances. Ghost writers. Oct 16th 2012, 10:21 by A.E.S.. Tweet. EVERY writer hates deadlines and the pen-to-the-throat pain of procrastination. But some have had both looming for years. Penguin, a book-publisher controlled by Pearson (a part-owner of this newspaper), recently sued a dozen ... People were so engrossed with those series that they bought fewer other books, according to Marjorie Scardino, the boss of Pearson (who will step down at the end of the year).
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By A.E.S.
Author advances. Ghost writers. Oct 16th 2012, 10:21 by A.E.S.. Tweet. EVERY writer hates deadlines and the pen-to-the-throat pain of procrastination. But some have had both looming for years. Penguin, a book-publisher controlled by Pearson (a part-owner of this newspaper), recently sued a dozen ... People were so engrossed with those series that they bought fewer other books, according to Marjorie Scardino, the boss of Pearson (who will step down at the end of the year).
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Johnny Depp Is Launching A Book Publishing Imprint
By The Huffington Post News Editors
In January, the imprint will publish folk singer Woody Guthrie's 1947 novel, House of Earth. The musician never actually sought publication for his book about economic disputes between ordinary Texans and the upper crust of the state's ...
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Jen Robinson's Book Page
Children's Book Reviews Index - includes my reviews, and reviews from many of ... Author: Eileen Rosenthal ... While I adore and admire teachers, the picture books that I'm looking for are the ...Source of Book: Review copy from the publisher ...
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Humble eBook Bundle Passes $600k, Adds Five Awesome - Techdirt
Humble eBook Bundle Passes $600k, Adds Five Awesome Webcomic Books. from the under-promise-and-over-deliver dept. One of the general rules for ...
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