Pippa Middleton Launches New Party-Planning Book

Pippa Middleton Launches New Party-Planning Book, Joins Kids for Crafting ...
E! Online
Kate Middleton's little sis took a hands-on approach with some teeny-tiny pals Thursday, swinging by a crafting workshop-turned-kiddie party in a London bookstore to help hype the launch of her new party-planning book, Celebrate. Dressed in a snug ...

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Bringing Up the Books
Wall Street Journal
The English author, whose career spans four decades, started writing at the age of 22.... She documented that time in her essay "Ink in the Blood: A Hospital Diary," first published in the London Review of Books and now available as an e-book. "It was ...

Wall Street Journal

Pearson, Bertelsmann in Talks to Merge Book Businesses
Wall Street Journal
Digital technology is also allowing authors to self-publish, while prompting a wide variety of newcomers and experienced professionals to start digital book companies. At the same ... "The big publishers have to reckon with lower gross margins and ...

'Cloud Atlas' Author David Mitchell: If the Movie Were Structured Like the ...
Anglophenia
“It's not only one of the most 'unfilmable' books I've ever written, this is also one of the most 'unfilmable' books I've ever read.” “Unfilmable” or not, the movie version of Cloud Atlas has been filmed, and it's ... after which the first five stories ...

Book Review: The Invisible Woman: The Story of Charles Dickens and Nelly ...
Blogcritics.org (blog)
When you've got a story about a middle aged, world famous author married with a herd of children who walks out on his wife and takes up in secret with a beautiful young actress half his age, you've got the makings of the kind of story worthy of ...

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Book Review: 'Why I Left Goldman Sachs,' by Greg Smith
Businessweek
For example, in his original article and in a corresponding section of the book, Smith related that traders in London sometimes called their clients “muppets.” This was not meant to convey that the clients were funny or that they often broke out in ...

Review: Edward Gorey's gothic tales from the vault
Los Angeles Times
In recent years, Gorey's eccentric shadow has only lengthened across pop culture, his influence apparent in Tim Burton's gothic whimsies; the Lemony Snicket books by Daniel Handler; the emergence of the Gorey tattoo as a hipster fad; crowds thronging ...

Book: Cartoonists are 'Mad' about sports
ESPN (blog)
James Bennett, Jack Rickard Here is a photo gallery of 10 sports covers of Mad in the new book, out Tuesday. Mad magazine has been around for 60 years and has published 518 issues -- but NBA legend Michael Jordan has never made the cover.

ESPN (blog)

New iBooks Author supports LaTeX and MathML | TUAW - The ...
By Mike Schramm
LaTeX is document markup system (similar to the popular Markdown) that's popular among high-level academia and mathematics authors. iBooks Author 2,
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

ValoBox Launches Pay-As-You-Go eBook Offering; O'Reilly Media ...
By Steve O'Hear
Not so crazy, it seems, that one UK startup is taking a stab: ValoBox launches its on-demand browser-based eBook service today, with publishers O'Reilly Media, Profile Books, Guardian Books, Constable & Robinson, and Snowbooks, signed on ... Founded by Anna Lewis and Oliver Brooks, who are also the team behind the online book publishing service, CompletelyNovel.com, ValoBox's pay-as-you-go model sets out to solve the problem of “how to get hold of expert content when ...
TechCrunch

Book Bench - Neatorama
By Brody
If I got to decide what books were in the bench I would probably choose Skippy Dies, Ender's Game, The Hobbit, Catch 22, Super Sad True Love Story (the book that I am currently enthralled with), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (trilogy), ...
Neatorama

Book News: Smoking Santa, Snobby Tablet : The New Yorker
By Rachel Arons
Barnes & Noble announced on Wednesday that PIN pad devices in sixty-three of its stores had been hacked, compromising customers' credit-card information. In an effort to reduce children's exposure to smoking, a Canadian publisher has ...
Page-Turner

New for You: Presidential Campaign Posters Book | Picture This ...
New for You: Presidential Campaign Posters Book ... Cover of Presidential Campaign Posters.http://www.loc.gov/publish/general/ presidentialcampaignposters.html ... of Congress Publishing Office produce fascinating new books each year by ... Many thanks to the Publishing Office for a lively book that also expanded the ...
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Underwater Dog Photos Immortalized in New Book
To celebrate the release of one of our favorite blogs-turned-books, ... If you love them, you can find more in his book, which is available here and makes for much ...
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