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Book News: October 5th, 2012 | My Bookish Ways
Book news including authors such as Tina Connolly, Cory Doctorow, Mark Pryor, ... Famous authors' funniest responses to their books being banned(via ...
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Oyster gets $3M to become the Spotify of books — Tech News and ...
Oyster, a new startup that wants to be the Spotify of books, announced it has ... to Amazon Prime customers and only allows for one book to be borrowed a ...
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Books In The News | Literary & Visual Arts | Arts & Entertainment ...
By Epoch Times
Google's chief legal officer David Drummond said in a statement, “By putting this litigation with the publishers behind us, we can stay focused on our core mission and work to increase the number ofbooks available …” Tom Allen, president and CEO, of AAP said, “[This settlement] ... Actress and filmmaker and creator of HBO's “Girls,” has landed a $3.5 million book advance from Random House, according to The New York Times. Dunham's “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells ...
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All Books Are E-Books Now. (And they have been for decades ...
By a TeleRead Contributor
TeleRead - News and views on ebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics. HOME| · AROUND THE WORLD| · EREADERS| · LIBRARY| · COPYRIGHT| · PUBLISHING ... There seems to be a myth among some anti-e-book diehards that somewhere in the publishing world there is still a loving process of manual typesetting and handcrafted design going on, to produce real solid physicalbooks. Well, as a longtime editor for print, let me remind you that it just isn't so. Perhaps at the ...
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Chinese author Mo Yan wins Nobel Prize in literature (+video)
Christian Science Monitor
Mo is a vice chairman of the government-linked China Writers' Association, for example, and refused to join a panel at the 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair because two exiled dissident Chinese authors were slated to speak at the event. Though Mo had been ...
Christian Science Monitor
National Book Awards finalists include a surprised Carrie Arcos
Los Angeles Times
"As you know, we are always trying to expand the audience for the books the judges select and television seemed like a good step toward that goal," Harold Augenbraum, the National BookFoundation's executive director, explained in an email. Before day ...
Book Review: The Breast Cancer Checklist
Scientific American (blog)
But among all the pink confections, this month also brought me something substantive and welcome—a review copy of the Breast Cancer Checklist by Fern Reiss, a Harvard graduate and dynamic author of The Publishing Game series.* Fern learned she had...
Scientific American (blog)
JK Rowling: By the Book
New York Times
What was the last truly great book you read? “Team of Rivals,” by Doris Kearns Goodwin. I lived in it the way that you do with truly great books; putting it down with glazed eyes and feeling disconcerted to find yourself in the 21st century. I met the ...
Used-book sales bring in money for libraries
Philadelphia Inquirer
The attraction: more than 45,000 used books and thousands of CDs, videos, books on tape, LPs, and magazines, spread out on 70 tables across the Camden County Library System's M. Allan Vogelson Regional Branch on Laurel Road. "It's like Black Friday ...
Philadelphia Inquirer
Frankfurt Book Fair 2012: Global Prospects for E-books Bright
Publishers Weekly
B&N's Iannone said the dawn of the e-book market was great for publishers and booksellers, because, at its core, it was great for readers. “For under $100 you can start reading on an e-ink device,” Iannone said. “From a global nature, access to books ...
Complaint targets tell-all book on France's first lady
CNN
All of them had other partners at the time. Trierweiler's relationship with Devedjian crumbled after he was unable to commit further to their relationship, the book says -- paving the way for Hollande to step in. Several books have been published about ...
Book Review: Total Recall by Arnold Schwarzenegger
Blogcritics.org (blog)
The first 200 pages or so of Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by Arnold Schwarzenegger are dedicated to the author's childhood and bodybuilding career. Theauthor makes a point which he will make over and over in the book--once he sets his...
Blogcritics.org (blog)
Justin Cronin, author of 'The Twelve', to speak at SMU
Dallas Morning News
Friends of the SMU Libraries stages these casual, friendly author events throughout each spring and fall, and they're free and open to the public. Visitors are treated to a light buffet lunch followed by the speaker's presentation and a book signing ...
Dallas Morning News
John Lennon book: Beatles info overload?
CBS News
The book, "The John Lennon Letters," includes nearly 400 pages of just about everything John Lennon ever wrote when he wasn't writing songs -- from angst-ridden personal letters to Paul McCartney, to post cards, and what amount to Post-it notes. Davies ...
CBS News
Judge Says Fair Use Protects Universities in Book-Scanning Project
Wired (blog)
Google made a deal in 2005 with these universities to scan millions of books in their libraries without the rights holders' permission, and make “snippets” of those books available online via Google's search engine. The Mountain View, California ...
Wired (blog)
Book buzz: Nobel winner, Octavia Spencer books
USA TODAY
For the first time since April 19, E.L. James's Fifty Shades of Grey is AWOL from USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list's top 3. But while Ana and Christian's story drops to No. ... According to her publisher Berkley, first-week sales for the Reflected e ...
Book Talk: Booker nominee Thayil offers bleak Bombay portrait
Reuters
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Jeet Thayil, one of the nominees for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for the year's best novel in English, paints a stark portrait of Mumbai, or Bombay as he calls it, in his debut novel "Narcopolis". Thayil is a poet and musician who ...
Samantha Geimer to write tell-all book about Roman Polanski sexual assault
Examiner.com
On Wednesday, it was reported that Geimer has inked a deal with Afria Books for a tell-all book, "The Girl: Emerging from the Shadow of Roman Polanski." The details of the deal were undisclosed. Geimer's attorney, Lawrence Silver, will add his insights ...
Examiner.com
Royals: Pippa Will Not be Promoting Her Book
Daily Beast
The failure of an author to get behind a book and help with its promotion all but guarantees that most media outlets will decline to feature the book prominently, especially given that it is being released in the busiest time of year for publishing ...
Daily Beast
Read This Book, Win the Election
New York Times (blog)
With the presidential election looming and both sides looking for a knockout blow in the vice-presidential debate on Thursday evening, now is a good time for both Democrats and Republicans to look for one more defining issue. The new book by Sheila ...
Frankfurt Book Fair
Albany Times Union
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY - OCTOBER 10: A visitor looks at a display of books at the Droemer stand at the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 10, 2012 in Frankfurt, Germany. The FrankfurtBook Fair is the largest in the world and will run from October 10 ...
New Book Reveals Kate Gosselin's Detailed Culinary Demands
Huffington Post
A new book reveals that reality TV star Kate Gosselin has made demands that make the notoriously difficult J.Lo look low-key. She's certainly detail-oriented and isn't afraid to tell you what she wants, according to the new book, Kate Gosselin: How She ...
Greater Boston author readings Oct. 14 –20
Boston.com (blog)
Dennis Lehane (“Live by Night”) reads at 7 p.m. at Newtonville Books… Charles Rowan Beye (“My Husband and My Wives: A Gay Man's Odyssey”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store … Ty Burr (“Gods Like Us: On Movie Stars and Modern Fame”) reads at ...
Octavia Spencer writing books for middle schoolers
Boston.com
The actress best known for ''The Help'' has a deal with Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers for a pair of detective novels for middle school students. Simon & Schuster announced Thursday that the first book, ''Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective: The ...
New Book Details The One Year A Straight Christian Spent As A Gay Man
Queerty
Kurek chose today, National Coming Out Day, to officially launch The Cross in the Closet and has pledged to give some of the book's proceeds to a charity helping homeless LGBT youth. Though his parents never taught him to shun or hate gay people – and ...
BOOK REVIEW: 'How China Became Capitalist'
Washington Times
His new book, coauthored with Ning Wang, assistant professor at Arizona State University, investigates the capitalist awakening of the Chinese economy. To understand “How China Became Capitalist,” Mr. Coase and Mr. Wang take a deep look into the ...
Washington Times
Author explores love, history and radiation
Capital Times (blog)
In a narrative that spans more than 100 years, Lauren Redniss uses scientific papers, historic photos, and vibrant, at times unsettling, drawings that come to brilliant life on the pages of “Radioactive,” the book selected by UW-Madison for its Go Big ...
Amazon Starts Author Ranking Feature
Publishers Weekly
It is widely recognized that when a book's ranking on Amazon cracks the coveted “Top 100,” the added exposure can create a kind of tipping point that propels some books to unexpected heights. If a high author ranking exhibits a similar pattern, there ...
11 Book Sequels You Probably Didn't Know Existed - Mental Floss
By M. Asher Cantrell
Countless children have been assigned essays about how they interpreted the book's ambiguous ending, but they could have saved some time and just read the book's two (with a third on the way) sequels instead. The first sequel ... Louisa May Alcott's classic, Little Women, is actually already two books in the first place, with the first volume being Little Women and the second being Good Wives, but since they're usually compiled anyway, that hardly counts as a sequel. Luckily for this ...
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Literature Nobel Prize goes to Chinese author Mo Yan — RT
By RT
The Swedish Academy in Stockholm has awarded the Nobel Literature Prize to the Chinese author Mo Yan. The winner receives a prize of 8 million kronor ($1.
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Around the world, no set rules for ebook pricing or digital reading ...
By Laura Hazard Owen
... necessarily work for less developed market. Executives from Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Google, France's FNAC and India's Indiaplaza discussed similarities and differences between digital reading cultures Wednesday afternoon at the Frankfurt Book Fair. ... “We [and publishers] have been sensitive to the value of the book,” he said, adding: “Even people that buy ebooks still read a lot of physical books – (which is) very different from other industries.” Santiago de la Mora, director of print...
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Books as Muses: 14 Photographs and a Video : The New Yorker
By Jessie Wender
'Reading Women' depicts friends—mostly artists and musicians living in New York—each reading abook of her choice written by a female author, poet, musician, or artist, in her own home or studio. ...This spring, Chronicle Books will publish a book on the twenty-year anniversary of the project.Books-05-2000.jpg Dave Dyment, “One Billion Years (Past and Future)” (2010). This series “presents sixty-four books arranged chronologically by title, not by publication date,” Dyment told me.
Culture Desk
Book News: Dressing Miss Bennets, Reading Along Party Lines ...
By Rachel Arons
Mo Yan, of China, has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel committee called him a writer “who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary.” The finalists for the National Book Awards were announced ...
Page-Turner
ABRAMS Giving Away One Good Deed eBook - GalleyCat
By Maryann Yin
... Writer Resources · GalleyCat Reviews · Jobs · BenBella Books is looking for a Fast Track Publishing Intern (full-time). next job Diversion Books is looking for a Production Assistant. next job John Wiley & Sons, Inc. is looking for a Editor. next job New Horizon Press is looking for a Production Editor. see all · eBooks ... eBook will be available at Netgalley and eBook retailers. Just like the book, the publisher hopes to encourage more positive actions through this one good deed.
GalleyCat
What Could Book Advances Really Advance? - The Dish | By ...
By Andrew Sullivan
Odds are that 20 years from now, a handful of those books would have been cultural touchstones, each outselling Dunham's advice book. Right now, off the top of my head I could give you a list of 370 writers who would write books that would ...
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Book Signing in Philadelphia this Saturday « The Sartorialist
By The Sartorialist
Book Signing in Philadelphia this Saturday. This Saturday I will be at the Barnes Museum in Philadelphia signing books from 5-7 p.m.. You can purchase a book at the event, or bring your ownbook to be signed. The Barnes Museum ...
The Sartorialist
Coulter on her new book, Obama's 2007 race speech | The Daily ...
By Vince Coglianese
The Daily Caller Social Experience. Let your friends help you discover the best news, features and videos on TheDC. Publish what you read and maintain full control. ... The Daily Caller recently sat down with New York Times best selling author Ann Coulter to discuss her brand new and already controversial book “Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama.” Among the topics covered in the book, Coulter insists that the political left has hijacked the history of the civil ...
The Daily Caller
Lena Dunham Must Sell 1 Million Books to Make $3.7 Mil Deal Pay Off
By Andy Lewis
Random House is taking a big risk by spending $3.7 million on HBO's Girls creator Lena Dunham's proposed book Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned. PHOTOS: Emmy Parties: Winners (and Losers) ...
Business
Franklin Becker Writing Book, Working on QSR Concept - Eater NY
By Greg Morabito
Earlier this year, Franklin Becker left his post as corporate executive chef of the EMM Group to pursue other projects. When his departure was announced, there were rumors that the chef was scoping out locations for a restaurant of his own.
Eater NY
Lifetime Books 'Grey's Anatomy's' Kim Raver for 'The Secret Lives of ...
By Lacey Rose, Lesley Goldberg
Raver will join Salli Richardson, Amber Clayton and "Paranormal Activity 3's" Lauren Bittner as one of the four women in the drama pilot inspired by Iris Krasnow's book by the same name.
Television
Here Now, 11 Photos From Diane Keaton's New Design Book - On the
By Sarah Firshein
Thursday, October 11, 2012. On the Books ...
Curbed National
New book digs into Netflix's origins, evolution - Yahoo! Finance
From Yahoo! Finance: Netflix is probably hoping a new book about its early history never gets made into a movie.The book, "Netflixed: The Epic Battle for ...
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From Yahoo! Finance: Netflix is probably hoping a new book about its early history never gets made into a movie.The book, "Netflixed: The Epic Battle for ...
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Hollywood not wild for new J.K. Rowling book 'The Casual Vacancy ...
The Rowling insider notes, "She wrote the book for print publication but is ... Too many writers today write books like a movie script, hoping to cash in on movie ...
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The Rowling insider notes, "She wrote the book for print publication but is ... Too many writers today write books like a movie script, hoping to cash in on movie ...
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