'The New Digital Age' by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen

'The New Digital Age' Takes Deep Look at Web - NYTimes.com: "This is the first book by Mr. Schmidt, who helped build Google into a technology powerhouse. Mr. Cohen, who once worked at the State Department, has written books about the genocide in Rwanda and his travels in the Middle East. . . . “The New Digital Age” promises to be broad in scope, taking in how technologies will shape business and politics. According to the publicity materials, it will touch on future considerations such as how to curate an online identity, and it will also predict who will gain power from the Web. “Almost nothing, short of a biological virus, can scale as quickly, efficiently or aggressively as these technology platforms,” the authors write, referring to Google, Apple and Facebook, among others, “and this makes the people who build, control and use them powerful, too.”"

Could Selling A Used Book Become Illegal?
Huffington Post
American book publishers frequently print identical or very similar editions of the books they publishin America and sell them for much lower prices overseas. Mr. Kirtsaeng saw the ....

Book Buzz: Rowling's 'The Casual Vacancy' coming to BBC
USA TODAY
Abe is hot: Thanks to Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis and the movie Lincoln, the 2005 bookTeam of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln is back on USA TODAY's Best-SellingBooks list. Read Bob Minzesheimer's interview with author ...

Book says 'Big Data' becoming a global nervous system
USA TODAY
One person featured in the "Big Data" book is graphics designer Nick Felton. .... The creator of the Day in the Life of America photo book and other "day in the life" books, says this latest project was the toughest so far. ... to model, build and ...

Kate Burton entwines books, theater
San Francisco Chronicle
For about 10 years, you could usually find a book narrated by Kate Burton on the bestseller lists. "I was as proud as if I'd written the books myself," Burton says on the phone as she drives to a meeting from her Los Angeles home. "I consider doing ...

San Francisco Chronicle

Cheney to write book on his heart problems
USA TODAY
Cheney -- who will author the book along with long-time cardiologist Jonathan Reiner -- said in a statement he plans to discuss "the remarkable advances in cardiac care in the United States over the last forty years." Said Cheney: "Through the story of ...

A Restaurant's Struggles Inspire a Musical With Book by Adam Gopnik
New York Times (blog)
They include Adam Gopnik, a staff writer for The New Yorker (book and lyrics); David Shire, who co-wrote “Baby” and “Starting Here, Starting Now” (music and lyrics); and Gordon Edelstein, who will direct. The musical, “Table,” has been in the works for ...

Book News: Judy Blume Trio, “Casual Vacancy” on TV
New Yorker (blog)
A Boston church is voting this Sunday on whether to sell one of its two first-edition copies of the first book ever published in North America. The book of psalms, ... In the Los Angeles Review of Books, three authors on growing up reading Judy Blume ...

New Yorker (blog)

The Amazon Book Jungle
Forbes
At the moment, it is at 12,368, which doesn't sound that great, but Amazon has millions of books, so Joel and I are firmly within the top 1% of book sales, at least for now. The book is atop the tax law category, beating out such volumes as Bruce ...

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Russia: Stop Efforts to Ban Human Rights Book | Human Rights Watch
By Human Rights Watch
On December 6, 2012, the Dzerzhinsk City Court in the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia will hold a hearing on a petition filed by the local prosecutor's office to ban a book by Stanislav Dmitrievsky, et. al., International Tribunal for ... Dmitrievsky told Human Rights Watch that he found out about the planned court hearing only on November 28, 2012, when he received an official summons to appear before the court on December 6 as the monograph's chief-editor and co-author. As the ...

Gorgeous Homes For True Book Lovers - Mental Floss
By Jill Harness
Gorgeous Homes For True Book Lovers. ... Photo Courtesy Flavorwire. We've seen beautiful libraries lined with books from all over the world, but let's face it—most of us can't really enjoy that sort of luxury at home. That being said, even a fairly ...
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Books - Flavorwire
Nothing is more boring or more unfair to the author than starting to read, say, ... When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we ...

New photo book shows Whitney Houston through the years - CNN ...
A new book of photographs "Whitney: A Tribute to An Icon," was released last week. "This was just shot in the bedroom," said Randee St. Nicholas, who curated ...

The Jessica Chastain Look Book - The Cut
Since her career exploded in 2011, Jessica Chastain has been a striking figure on the red carpet. From gold-embroidered Alexander McQueen at this year's ...

'Three Cups of Tea' co-author David Oliver Relin dies in suicide at ...
News: David Oliver Relin, co-author of the bestselling book "Three Cups of Tea," said in ... Publishyour own activity and retain full control. ... a charity conspired to make Mortenson into a false hero to sell books and raise money for the charity.

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