Net Minds a new publishing platform

Atari Founder Says His New Steve Jobs Book Will Be Published On A Novel ...
Forbes
And so his book is being published by Net Minds, a new “crowd-powered” publishing platform launched today by former Yahoo Inc. executive Tim Sanders. Instead of a potential author pitching a book idea to a publisher and then, if it's accepted, being ...

Facebook CEO's sis Randi Zuckerberg has book deal
USA TODAY
HarperCollins announced Wednesday that Randi Zuckerberg, a social media executive and entrepreneur who left Facebook in 2011, plans a memoir/lifestyle book titled "Dot Complicated" and a children's story. "Dot Complicated," scheduled for release Nov.

"Harry Potter" gets new book covers for 15th anniversary
CBS News
He said: "As an author myself, I tried to answer the question, 'If I were the author of the books -- and they were like my own children -- how would I want them to be seen years from now?' When illustrating the covers, I tried to think of classic ...

CBS News

Using books to break out of poverty
MSNBC
While there, he was startled to learn that a library for 450 children had no books, and he heard something that he's never forgotten. “'In Nepal, we're too poor to afford education, but until we have education, we're always going to be poor.' And that ...

Dodgers: Mike Piazza calls out Vin Scully in book
Los Angeles Times
In the book, he said the Dodgers made a take-it-or-leave-it offer of $76 million over six years, said he would have signed at $79 million, and suggested the team leaked that it had offered $80 million. At $80 million -- or even at $76 million -- Piazza ...

Here's why book stores like Barnes and Noble are dying
Washington Times
NEW YORK, February 13, 2013 - It wasn't news to me when I heard that Barnes and Noble was fading out by reducing its number of book stores, some here, some there, some everywhere, gradually over the years. We heard the same story from Borders, that ...

Washington Times

'Safe Haven' fits sweetly into author's cloying formula
Detroit Free Press
Those simple pleasures are in the forefront of "Safe Haven," another treacly tale from the author who gave us "The Notebook," "Dear John" and "The Last Song." There's another beach town -- sleepy, bucolic Southport, N.C. -- another pair of lovers, each ...

Stephenie Meyer, 'Twilight' author, comes to Books & Books
MiamiHerald.com
She's one of the most popular authors on the planet — and she's coming to Miami. Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight saga, will sign copies of The Host plus one copy of any one of her other books at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Books & Books in Coral Gables.

MiamiHerald.com

The 200-Year Jane Austen Book Club
New York Times (blog)
Even when it comes to the high-minded business of literature, people do judge booksby their covers. Perhaps that's why Amazon produces glossy mock “covers” for its disembodied e-books, to be inspected and decided upon alongside the traditional print...

New York Times (blog)

Outskirts Press Reveals Top 24 Best Selling Books in Self-Publishing for 2012
San Francisco Chronicle
Outskirts Press offers high-quality, full-service self-publishing and book marketing services for writers and professionals who are seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining 100% of ...
 
San Francisco Chronicle

Atari Founder's Steve Jobs Book Will Kickstart a Publishing Platform
By Chris Taylor
Net Minds is the brainchild of Tim Sanders, a former Yahoo executive and the New York Times bestselling author of Love is the Killer App. It will publish regular books as well as e-books, and lets authors build a team to edit, design and market ...
Mashable!

Book News: Superman Boycott, Supreme Memoirs : The New Yorker
By Rachel Arons
Petitioners are protesting DC Comics's selection of the author Orson Scott Card, who has called homosexuality “deviant behavior,” to write a story for a digital-first “Adventures of Superman.” Oxford and Cambridge are joining forces to ...
Culture Desk

Former Special Ops Members Unveil New Details in Benghazi Book ...
By Liz Klimas
As the details about the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, continue to emerge, a new ebook claims to unveil what it says are the "both uncomfortable and unsatisfying" facts surrounding the events leading up to, during and after the attack. Some... ... were 'off the books' in the sense they were not coordinated through the Pentagon or other governmental agencies, including the CIA,” the book states. The book says that Libya was a “ticking time bomb” and ...
TheBlaze.com - Stories

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Book Lovers Talk Online

Read Any Good Web Sites Lately? Book Lovers Talk Online
New York Times
But then she found a solution to her problem: Goodreads.com, a social media site for finding and sharing titles that has 15 million members, is exploding in popularity and rivaling Amazon.com as a platform for promoting new books. The site allows ...

Pondering the Pope with 'Vatican Diaries' author John Thavis
Los Angeles Times
He peels back the veil of the Vatican in his book "The Vatican Diairies: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the power, personalities and Politics at the Heart of the Roman Catholic Church," which comes out Feb. 25. Perfect timing. Thavis, who has recently ...

Harford Public Library receives book donation in honor of Black History Month
Baltimore Sun
This year, Harford County Public Library received a donation of several copies of thebook "In The Spirit of Ronald E. McNair: Astronaut, An American Hero" by Carl S. McNair. It is a biography of the second African-American astronaut in space and a ...

Baltimore Sun

Book Buzz: Fifty years of 'Feminine Mystique,' 'Downton Abbey' fan book
USA TODAY
Carle's friends: Eric Carle, author of the children's books The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, will publish a new, "deeply personal" picture book this fall called Friends, which "explores the love that binds ...

Why eBook Retailers Are Embracing Self-Published Authors
Huffington Post (blog)
Whether you're a traditionally published author or a self-published author, such placement can make your book stand out in a haystack of millions of other books competing for your reader's attention. Why are retailers such as the Apple iBookstore ...

Chelsea's Frank Lampard signs new deal: writing children's books
Reuters
The 34-year-old midfielder, whose contract with London club Chelsea expires in June, has signed a deal with publisher Little, Brown Books for Young Readers to write five books for children aged 5 and over. The first book in the series of "Frankie's ...

Crazy Stalker Accuses Writer of Organizing Rape: Books
Bloomberg
Her charges showed up on his Amazon and Goodreads pages and in the comments sections of his online book reviews. The harassment never crossed the threshold of bodily threat that would have sent the cops into action. By the time Lasdun sought their ...

Ann Leary on The Good House, Book Tours and Her Time at Emerson College
Huffington Post
The past three weeks have been busy for author Ann Leary as her latest novel The Good House hit shelves January 15. Amidst her travels for book signings and readings, Leary's novel has been named a New York Times bestseller and a USA Today ...

Faculty author series at Widener
Harvard Gazette
These are some of the questions Professors John Dowling, Jennifer Hochschild, and Jill Lepore have investigated, if not answered, in their books, questions they will further explore, and raise with students, through a series of book talks to be held in ...

Harvard Gazette

How to Read Like a Bibulous Book Writer - NYTimes.com
By By ROSIE SCHAAP
Her book, “Drinking With Men,” came out last month. Book I'm reading now: I've really fallen for Belfast in the last few years (it's one of the great bar cities), and Northern Ireland has been on my mind lately. I recently finished David McKittrick ...
The 6th Floor

Finish Your Book With Our New Online Course - GalleyCat
By admin
Smashwords co-founder Mark Coker, bestselling self-published author Colleen Hoover and seasoned writer Guy Kawasaki will help you complete your book in Mediabistro's new Self-Publishing Finishing School. The six-week, interactive course will include a number of ... Author and former chief evangelist of Apple Guy Kawasaki will offer a practical lecture about how to market and publicize youreBook to start selling copies. Self-published novelist Colleen Hoover will share her ...
GalleyCat

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Key West Story - novel by Rick Skwiot (video)


Key West Story - novel by Rick Skwiot - Rick Skwiot's take on this funky island--the Southernmost point--Key West and the wild characters you'll find in his new novel, Key West Story. Against the backdrop of mangroves and mansions, Key West Story moves from Key West to Cuba, flirts with dream lovers, braves one formidable hurricane and several tempestuous personalities, and offers a bounty of wisdom about writing, living, and loving by a reincarnate Ernest Hemingway sent from Writers' Heaven to guide a washed up writer.

Weekend picks for book lovers
USA TODAY
USA TODAY's picks for book lovers include cozy fiction about an Irish inn from Maeve Binchy, and a digital novella from Richard Russo that's set in Venice. A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy; Knopf, 326 pp.; fiction. A Week in Winter, Maeve Binchy's last ...

Hillary Clinton: book tells plane truths behind aims as secretary of state
The Guardian
Kim Ghattas knows the kind of detail we want from her book, The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of Power. After all, she travelled in Clinton's press corps on many of her notorious leg-after-leg journeys. Ghattas ...

The Guardian

The book jacket 'Bell Jar'
Chicago Tribune
It's clear, just glancing at the Faber edition, that we have a book cover problem, but the question is: How big a problem? Is the babelicious Plath cover just another quirky aberration from the land of mincemeat pies and Mr. Bean? Or does it point to a ...

Chicago Tribune

Olivia Manning: A Woman at War by Deirdre David - review
The Guardian
Collectively known as Fortunes of War, the novels were adapted for television seven years after the author's death. The series starred Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson as Guy and Harriet Pringle, whose wartime lives mirror those of Manning and her ...

The Guardian

Biblioracle: The big box conundrum
Chicago Tribune
Not long before my mom got out, when Borders and Barnes & Noble moved into TheBook Bin's territory in adjacent spaces across from each other on Waukegan Road at Lake Cook Road, it seemed inevitable that they would ultimately make it impossible for The ...

Chicago Tribune

Author Katherine Bouton Opens Up About Going Deaf
NPR
In her new book, "Shouting Won't Help," Bouton shares how she came to terms with hearing loss, and why more attention needs to be paid to a condition that affects nearly 50 million Americans. Copyright © 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only.

Book News: DOJ Approves Penguin, Random House Merger
NPR (blog)
Randi Zuckerberg, former Facebook marketing director and sister of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, signed a two-book deal with HarperCollins for a memoir (called Dot Complicated) as well as a children's book. Vampires in the Lemon Grove author Karen Russell on ...

NPR (blog)

Julia Donaldson defends libraries from Terry Deary's attack
The Guardian
Children's laureate Julia Donaldson has come out in staunch support of libraries, dismissing Horrible Histories author Terry Deary's belief that they have "had their day" as "seriously flawed". Earlier this ... "If yet more bookshops close and people ...

The Guardian

What's new? Not much: Book on Pope Pius XII brings little to the table
Dailyrecord.com
Author Gordon Thomas addresses that issue in “The Pope's Jews: The Vatican's Secret Plan to Save Jews from the Nazis.” The result is disappointing and, frankly, insulting. Thomas, as the title of his book predicts, portrays Pius XII — the former papal ...

Book Review Podcast: A Lincoln for Our Time - NYTimes.com
By By JOHN WILLIAMS
Listen to previous podcasts from the Book Review. This week in The New York Times Book Review, Steven B. Smith reviews “Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism” by John Burt. In many ways, Mr. Burt's book is a response to another classic account of ...
ArtsBeat

A Newbie's Guide to Publishing: Ebook Parts
By Joe Konrath
If it is a compilation, it should contain hyperlinks to each of the books in the collection, followed by the product description for the first book in the collection. 3. Title page. Include author name. 4. Hyperlinked table of contents. Links should go to ...
A Newbie's Guide to Publishing

Azerbaijan: Bounty Money Offered for Author Akram Aylisli's Ear ...
By Chris Woolf
The State Department this week called on the government of Azerbaijan to protect author Akram Aylisli. The respected elderly author became the subject of protests and threats of violence, because of his latest book. His critics say it's pro- Armenian. Anchor Carol Hills speaks with Famil Ismailov of... People have also been protesting outside the 75-year-old author's home, burning copies of his books. And the writer's wife and son have both been dismissed from their jobs. The reason ...
PRI's The World

Randi Zuckerberg Is Writing A Book About Her 'Crazy Experiences ...
By Alyson Shontell
And about being a mother. It's all in Randi's plan to make a name for herself.
SAI

Kindle Books Get Twitter & Facebook Support - GalleyCat
By Jason Boog
The new “Book End Actions” feature lets you send a tweet or a Facebook status update when you finish a Kindle book. You can also use this feature to rate the book and write your own review. The app will also recommend other books that ...
GalleyCat
How to Attract Customers with Twitter
Our ebook, with a foreword by Laura Fitton, the author of Twitter for Dummies, explains how to use the social network to drive real business results. In this ebook ...
offers.hubspot.com/how-to-attract-customers-with-twitter-and-...

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The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change by Al Gore

‘The Future - Six Drivers of Global Change,’ by Al Gore - NYTimes.com: " . . . Gore insists that “because nation-states retain the exclusive power to negotiate policies and implement them globally, the only practical way to reclaim control of our destiny is to seek a global consensus within the community of nations to secure the implementation of policies that protect human values.” His somewhat Malthusian anxiety about the sustainability of human population and economic growth is matched by an optimism about the power of global public opinion reminiscent of Woodrow Wilson and other progressives from a century ago. Nonetheless, even the most skeptical realist must concede Gore’s point that there have been “many examples” of an international consensus advancing human rights long before the arrival of the Internet. “The abolition movement, the anti-apartheid movement, the promotion of women’s rights, restrictions on child labor, the anti-whaling movement, the Geneva Conventions against torture, the rapid spread of anticolonialism in the 1960s, the ban on atmospheric nuclear testing and successive waves of the democracy movement — all gained momentum from the sharing of ideas and ideals among groups of committed individuals in multiple countries who pressured their governments to cooperate in the design of laws and treaties that led to broad-based change in much of the world. . . .”

Books: New and noteworthy
USA TODAY
The buzz: A new week, a new James Patterson book! The last Cross novel, Merry Christmas, Alex Cross, reached No. 3 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list in November. 2. The Soundtrack of My Life by Clive Davis (Simon & Schuster, non-fiction, on sale ...

3 Books About House Hunting In The Gilded Age
NPR
3 Books About House Hunting In The Gilded Age. by Janet Wallach. February 17, 2013 7:00 AM. photo Enlarge image i. iStockphoto.com. photo. iStockphoto.com. Interiors intrigue me. Like many New Yorkers, I am often tempted to see what is inside those ...

NPR

Pondlife: A Swimmer's Journal by Al Alvarez – review
The Guardian
Al Alvarez's swimmer's diary, describing his all-year-round swimming in the outdoor ponds on Hampstead Heath, north London, is a marvellous book. Even the title Pondlife is spot-on: unlaboured, light and right. But it has no business to be as ...

The Guardian

SF book event for designer Eric Cohler
San Francisco Chronicle
At the event co-hosted by art consultant Sabrina Buell, Onekingslane co-founder Alison Pincus, Allison Speer and Eric's brother, venture capitalist Matt Cohler, friends jammed the store to celebrate the Manhattan designer's first book, "Cohler on ...

San Francisco Chronicle

Author Randy Susan Meyers 'Comfort' is based on a lie
Boston Herald
Boston writer Randy Susan Meyers has what she calls a “checkered past.” A former bartender, social worker, divorcee, mother and counselor to men who batter women, she first became a published author at 57 with her first book, “The Murderer's Daughter.” ...

Discoveries: Free books in El Cerrito
Sacramento Bee
EL CERRITO – Neither a bookstore nor a library, but something of a utopian hybrid, the Bay Area Free Book Exchange almost makes a guy feel sheepish and guilty, as if he's getting away with something not entirely above-board. There are books. They are ...

Morris libraries talking books program helps blind, disabled read
Dailyrecord.com
As a result, the State Library Talking Book and Braille Center (TBBC) has recently increased its program to help the visually and physically handicapped enjoy books via libraries throughout the state. The Morris County Library in Whippany is one of 11 ...

Drifting Decade: a Book by Daniel Blom
Red Bull (International)
"After ten years of documenting the snowboarding scene, photographer Daniel Blom now sums it up in Drifting Decade, a hardcover 240 page book portraying some of the most influential riders of the 21st century, on and off the mountain. Mixing ...

Nevada author keeps great-grandfather's Oz alive
Reno Gazette Journal
Author Roger Baum is photographed inside his North Las Vegas home on Jan. 25, 2013. Roger Baum is the great-grandson of L. Frank ... Since 1989, Roger Baum has carried on his great-grandfather's legacy, publishing 15 of his own Oz books, with a 16th ...

The Great Unexpected by Sharon Creech - Review
The Guardian
Naomi Deane and Lizzie Scatterding (the main characters) know who everyone is in Blackbird Tree, and so does the reader as the author describes them amazingly and in great detail. Nothing out of the ordinary ever happens in Blackbird Tree. That is ...


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Apple to Highlight Self-Published Books

Apple to Highlight Self-Published Books
New York Times (blog)
Yet another sign that self-publishing is making inroads into the traditional houses: On Tuesday Apple will include a feature that organizes a group of popular self-published e-books together and then gives them prominent display on iBookstore. The ...

Big-Publisher-Backed Bookish Book Retail Site Launches: Will It Succeed or Fail?
Forbes
After two years and three CEOs, the much-anticipated Bookish book and ebook retail site launched last night. “Finally” was the word on everyone's mind. (Read more about the website and its strategy here.) Here are some quick facts on the site: – Backed ...

Fed up with online trolls, author pledges $5 to women’s, LGBT groups for every insult | The Raw Story: "John Scalzi is the author of several books, including the Old Man’s War series and Redshirts, published in the States by Tor and the UK by Gollancz. He’s also the president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Fed up of being constantly targeted on his website by one particular individual and his followers, Scalzi decided to take action, pledging US$5 every time “the Racist Sexist Homophobic Dipshit in question posts an entry on his site in which he uses my name (or one of his adorable nicknames for me)”."
Books to Watch Out For: February
New Yorker (blog)
Several of J. G. Ballard's books, including “The Kindness of Women” and “Empire of the Sun,” which was adapted into a film by Steven Spielberg, contain fictionalized elements of the author's unusual life story. Here, Ballard gives a straightforward ...

New Yorker (blog)

In Book Publishing Today, Size No Longer Matters
Huffington Post
Today, however, the closing of the American mind (the title of a 400-page book a generation ago) has given way to the collapse of the American attention span (thank texting, Facebook and Twitter) and neither authors nor readers seek size from their books.

Kitty Kelley Writing Book on Women in the Senate
New York Times (blog)
Kitty Kelley, the author of unauthorized best-selling biographies of Oprah Winfrey and Nancy Reagan, will turn her gossipy form of reporting to the women of the United States Senate, her publisher said Monday. The book is tentatively set for ...

Final Sendak book a tribute to his brother
MiamiHerald.com
... author might have drawn in his mind. The brothers had worked on art projects since they were kids and Maurice illustrated two children's books by Jack, whom Maurice described as “much more talented” during a 2011 interview with The Associated Press ...

'How Literature Saved My Life,' by David Shields
New York Times
He offers laundry lists of recommended books and movies. To name but three of the terrific egocentric works for which he stumps: “Out of Sheer Rage,” a book in which Geoff Dyer never quite gets around to writing a book about D. H. Lawrence; “Sherman's ...

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Barnes and Noble Exiting Bookstore Business?

Why Is Barnes and Noble Getting Out of the Bookstore Business? - The Daily Beast: " . . . closing bookstores is a good way to save money. It pains me to say this. Some of the happiest hours of my childhood were spent curled up behind the shelves of two bookstores--Shakespeare and Company and Murder Ink--on New York's Upper West Side. But the sad fact is that Amazon is crushing the margins of physical retailers, including bookstores, in two ways. Fewer customers are coming to the stores, as people let their fingers do the walking instead. And Amazon's low prices have forced retailers to cut their prices to stay competitive. As a result, many stores are unprofitable, borderline profitable, or experiencing declining revenue. It's true that having a physical bookstore around probably means that more books get sold. But it doesn't seem to be true that those extra book sales produce enough revenue to cover the cost of all that lovingly organized and curated real estate. . . . Don't count Barnes and Noble out entirely.  Their college bookstore business still seems to be strong, and they may be able to reimagine their way to a higher-value, more premium experience.  But doing so will almost certainly mean shrinking, down to a manageable number of premium outlets with a specialist staff.  Which means, alas, closing bookstores and getting rid of those expensive leases before they drag the company under."

New documents spark questions over ''In Cold Blood'' book
Reuters
In the book, Capote wrote that as soon as KBI officials received a tip about the location of two men who were later convicted of killing the Clutters, the agency immediately dispatched an agent to a Kansas farmhouse where one of the suspects had been ...

Book gives advice for women with low libido
News & Observer
See page DX for a list of the romance books in the drawing. Valentine's Day survival guide. Here are some tips from Laurie Watson to help keep romance – not stress – in the spotlight for ... And that's what prompted her to write “Wanting Sex Again: How ...

News & Observer

Did Mike Piazza use steroids? 'I didn't,' he says in book
Los Angeles Times
The Hall of Fame election came and went without the release of Mike Piazza's long-awaited book. Piazza might ... Now that the Piazza book is about to go on sale, with the book tour about to start in New York, Piazza gave an interview to the New York Times.

The mystery of Arthur Kingsley Porter
Boston Globe
Boston author Randy Susan Meyers will be all over town this week celebrating the release of her second novel, “The Comfort of Lies” (Atria). An affair leads to a pregnancy; the woman gives the baby up for adoption. The story, set in and around Boston ...

Lance Armstrong Sued for Lying | Lawyers.com - JDSupra: " . . . Consumer lawsuits over falsified memoirs are rare, without a strong track record of victories in the courtroom. “In my opinion, the best legal argument for the plaintiffs is consumer fraud,” says Eric D. Morton, a business and intellectual property attorney with the Law Offices of Eric D. Morton. “The theory being that Lance Armstrong produced a book that was purportedly true (non-fiction) when, in fact, large portions of it were lies (essentially fiction).” There are a few recent precedents for litigation over fabricated memoirs. James Frey, author of “A Million Little Pieces,” settled a consumer fraud class action by offering a refund to customers who bought his ostensibly-true book only to learn that it was mostly made up. Then last year a judge dismissed a suit against Greg Mortenson over his books about school building in Pakistan and Afganistan, “Three Cups of Tea” and ”Stones Into Schools.” Mortenson had been outed as a liar by author John Krakauer, but a judge called the lawsuit alleging fraud and racketeering to boost book sales “flimsy and speculative.” The Armstrong lawsuit will test the law on fraud and memoirs anew, with a new set of facts. “Consumers were induced to buy a work on the premise that was false,” Morton says. “Those facts could also support causes of action for unfair business practices and false advertising. I’ll be interested to see how the case plays out.”

With This Start-Up, Your Favorite Novel Never Has to End - NYTimes.com: "adventure drove him to create Small Demons, a literary search engine that appeared online two years ago. Small Demons catalogs and cross-indexes the people, places and things that appear in books, encouraging readers to explore a world Mr. Vakili calls “the storyverse.” Browsing Small Demons, he explained, is like “getting sucked down the literary rabbit hole and finding all these weird connections.” But is that a business? . . . "

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What Publishers Will Do If First Sale Rights For Foreign Goods Disappear

Here's A Taste Of What Publishers Will Do If First Sale Rights For Foreign Goods Disappear | Techdirt: "The second story concerns physical books: A donor to [a] library had given them some books, amongst which was a copy of a specialized textbook that is currently in use at the school. Subsequently, the library has been contacted by the publisher of the textbook who has told them that they are not permitted to place the copy of the book that they were given in their library. Apparently, the fear was that students might make photocopies instead of buying the book. But again, the first sale doctrine means that the publisher has no power to demand the book be removed from the library in this way. And once more, if the Kirtsaeng ruling applied, and the book had been printed abroad, the publisher would have that extraordinary right to determine which of its books could be lent out - thus ripping the heart out of the present library system. . . . "

Geico's Gecko Has Written a Book
Businessweek
What the book is intended to do for Geico's insurance business remains unclear, but the Gecko is only the latest in a long line of fictional characters to write an advice manual. Bart Simpson wrote A Guide to Life. So did Miss Piggy, whose other works ...









Katherine Boo: By the Book
New York Times
George Saunders's “Tenth of December,” as much as I hate to say so given that recent obnoxious headline in The New York Times Magazine [“George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You'll Read This Year”]. Saunders's earlier books had left me faintly ...

Book Awards Can Help Teachers on a Budget
New York Times
Prestigious children's book honors like the Caldecott, Newberry and Coretta Scott King Awards aren't the end-all-be-all of great children's literature, but these labels do help find diamonds amid the coal. When teachers don't have much money to buy ...

Book Lovers Outraged Over Sexy 'Anne of Green Gables' Cover
ABC News (blog)
The book was published in November by a self-publisher and features a three-in-one set of “Gables,” ”Anne of Avonlea” and “Anne of The Island.” It is available on Amazon.com. Customers were outraged by the new cover, which is a far from the original ...

ABC News (blog)

Are Book Excerpts From Times Writers a Conflict of Interest?
New York Times (blog)
But it raised the question in my mind of The Times's policy, if any, concerning a potential conflict in publishing a newsworthy story in which the author also stands to profit. Is it The Times's policy topublish excerpts from all books written by its ...

Does Social Media Sell Books? Gillian Flynn's Agent Gives Her Perspective
Huffington Post
If the main function of social media, for an author, is to get the word out that this book is worth reading -- ideally to the people who will be most likely to read it -- and this can be accomplished in other ways (media coverage, ads, bookstore ...

Book News: Anne Of Green Gables Gets A Bad Makeover
NPR (blog)
... books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. Anne of Green Gables, who is described in Lucy Maud Montgomery's best-selling books as red-headed, freckled and — at least when the Anne series begins — prepubescent, gets a horribly ...

Children's Books At Harrods Leaves TV Producer 'Shocked And Appalled ...
Huffington Post
The book on the right, with a boy on the cover, is marketed as a how-to guide to "becoming or just appearing highly intelligent." Though it's unclear if Harrods had the books positioned that way, or if Meens re-arragned them for the photo, the ...

Book News: Stolen Scriptures, The Split-Infinitive Myth
New Yorker (blog)
A three-hundred-year-old family Bible, stolen in Ohio, in 2011, turns up in Georgia. Tim Parks on the rhythms of language and translating “Jabberwocky.” “Seriously—is writing really all that difficult? Yes, of course, it is… but is it that much more ...

New Yorker (blog)

What's the Best Way to Read a Book? : TreeHugger
By Lloyd Alter
A recent experience doing a book review on an iPad raises some questions. ... We have been debating the benefits of e-readers vs paper books for years, and still concur with Jaymi's conclusion in Are e-Readers Really Green? Unless you are both an incredibly avid reader as well as someone who cares for their gadgets and does not replace or upgrade to new ... In my previous post, Book orE-Book: Which Is Better? Perhaps Neither. I concluded that the e-reader (at least the one I ...
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Macmillan to Pay $20 Million to Settle Class Action Price-Fixing Claims

Macmillan to Pay $20 Million to Settle Class Action Price-Fixing Claims
Publishers Weekly
In a proposed settlement disclosed Friday night, Macmillan has agreed to pay up to $20 million to settle a consumer class action case, led by Seattle-based firm Hagens Berman, over alleged e-book price-fixing. The settlement must still be approved by the ...

Macmillan Settles E-Book Case

Wall Street Journal
Macmillan became the last major publisher to settle a Justice Department lawsuit alleging collusion over e-book pricing, allowing retailers to again discount its titles—for a limited time. In a statement, Macmillan Chief Executive John Sargent said the publisher ...

Data on the changing role of libraries in the digital age ~ Policy by the Numbers: "Ten years ago, the U.S. Congress looked at Internet access in libraries as "no more than a technological extension of the book stack." In fact, the Supreme Court cited this statement in the United States v. American Library Association decision, upholding government regulations requiring that, as a condition of funding for Internet access in the library, libraries must install content filtering software. The Court asserted that "A public library does not acquire Internet terminals in order … for Web publishers to express themselves." Ten years later, data suggests otherwise. A recent survey from the Pew Research Center shows that today Internet access plays a much bigger role in libraries. Over a quarter of Americans say they get Internet access at libraries, with "African-Americans and Hispanics are more likely than whites to access the internet at their local library, as are parents of minor children, those under age 50, those living in households earning less than $30,000, and those with at least some college experience." What's more, a Gates Foundation report finds that "people use library computers to perform both life-changing and routine tasks," both in discovering information and as a means of expression. For example, over a half-million Americans used library computers to start a local club or nonprofit group. . . . "

Amazon Eyes Secondhand Ebook Market
Forbes
More to the point, the reader feels no need to either buy the same book again from the original publisher, nor to buy something different from that author to 'repay' them for the earlier transgression, because there was no transgression. ... If Amazon ...

Struggling Publishers Look at India's Thriving Book Market
Voice of America
The boom is evident in the more than 1.4 million people who will visit the annual New Delhi World Book Fair, where 1,100 exhibitors from India and around the world display their latest books. At the Harper Collins India stall, American bestsellers are ...

Voice of America

'Both Flesh and Not' book review
San Francisco Chronicle
The literary landscape he describes in the book's second essay, "Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young," published in 1988, was more or less the same landscape I entered as an aspiring writer. ... He made the sky itself seem old, wrinkly...

San Francisco Chronicle

Book Review Podcast: Karen Russell's Uncanny Stories
New York Times (blog)
This week in The New York Times Book Review, Joy Williams reviews “Vampires in the Lemon Grove,” the new collection of short stories by Karen Russell. Ms. Williams writes: Start with a mustard seed of irrelevant fact. Rutherford Hayes's wife, Lucy, was...

New York Times (blog)

Macmillan reaches e-book pricing settlement with DOJ
CNET
As with the other settlements, Macmillan agreed to immediately lift restrictions it had imposed on discounting and other promotions by e-book retailers. It also will be prohibited from entering into new agreements with similar restrictions until ...

Book review: 'Winifred Sanford: The Life and Times of a Texas Writer,' by ...
Dallas Morning News
Book review: 'Winifred Sanford: The Life and Times of a Texas Writer,' by Betty Holland Wiesepape ... The reasons why are key topics in this short but excellent biography by Richardson author Betty Holland Wiesepape and will not be given away here.

Dallas Morning News

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Art Books, Book News, Book Reviews

Books in the Sun
New York Times (blog)
One way I reassure myself is by looking at the niche market of art books, which appears to be alive and well. For example, the first L.A. Art Book Fair, which opens tomorrow at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, will feature hundreds of...

New York Times (blog)

Haiti Three Years After the Earthquake: New Books by Amy Wilentz and ...
Huffington Post
I found both books riveting, and felt that they complemented each other perfectly. Katz's bookexuded the innocent outrage of an eyewitness to the monumental calamities, natural and man-made (such as the importation of cholera to the island by the very ...

Jane Austen's 'Pride And Prejudice' At 200
NPR
Out of the slew of critical books that have been spawned by the book's bicentennial, one that particularly caught my eye is called The Real Jane Austen by Paula Byrne. Byrne has previously written about Austen and the theater; here, she takes a clever ...

Oprah's latest book pick: debut novelist Ayana Mathis
USA TODAY
She was told that the book editor of O: The Oprah Magazine wanted to talk to her briefly about Mathis' debut novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, about a troubled black family between 1923 and 1980. Mathis, 39, says she was thrilled: "I thought a ...

Timeless Book May Require Some Timely Fact Checking
New York Times
Melville House confronted this situation with its decision to reissue in December a 1964 book by A. M. Rosenthal, “Thirty-Eight Witnesses: The Kitty Genovese Case.” The book was originally released just months after the murder in March 1964 of 28-year ...

Book Buzz: Jojo Moyes movie, Hillary Clinton memoir
USA TODAY
USA TODAY's Deirdre Donahue talks to author Daniel Stashower about his new book The Hour of Peril, which describes how detective Allan Pinkerton and America's first female private eye saved Lincoln from assassination in 1861. Jojo Moyes movie: MGM has ...

Nearly a Decade, a Few Books and a War Later, Ben Hammersley Still Most ...
Forbes
From the five books he's authored, to his time as a war correspondent and journalist, to a whole host of university, government and think-tank assignmnents, his resume runs long for a man who has yet to see four decades on this earth. So with all this ...

Forbes

Book News: Salinger Biography, Kindle Ads
New Yorker (blog)
Simon & Schuster will publish an “oral biography” of J. D. Salinger, written and edited by David Shields and Shane Salerno, and based on interviews with over a hundred and fifty people who worked with, knew, or admired the notoriously reclusive author.

New Yorker (blog)

PLEASE: No More Insulting Classic Book Covers For Teen Girls
Huffington Post
As the author of the Jezebel post points out, "If Sylvia Plath hadn't already killed herself, she probably would've if she saw the new cover of her only novel The Bell Jar." I surmise that publishing houses are making these ugly, horrifying book covers ...
Press Publish 4: Trei Brundrett on how Vox Media has built a web ...
By Joshua Benton
Vox's VP for product and technology talks about the importance of community, the value of long features, and the role of sponsored content.
Nieman Journalism Lab

How To Self-Publish Your Audiobook Through Audible - GalleyCat
By Jason Boog
How To Self-Publish Your Audiobook Through Audible. ... Boutique Literary Agency is looking for a Intern. next job Harlequin is looking for a Managing Editorial Coordinator. next job Basic Books / The Perseus Books Group is looking for a Junior Designer. next job Junior Library Guild is looking for a Editorial Assistant. see all ... The Title Profile is basically an ad for your book on ACX, to get Producers—which includes narrators—excited about producing your book as an audiobook.
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Balenciaga World of Mystery

Balenciaga’s World of Mystery - Books of Style - NYTimes.com: "In her penetrating and entertaining new biography, “The Master of Us All: Balenciaga, His Workrooms, His World,” Ms. Blume acknowledges that, even in his heyday, Balenciaga was something of a cipher. Born in a Basque village in 1895 to a fisherman father (who soon died) and a seamstress mother, he was sewing clothes for the Spanish nobility in his teens, established half a dozen Spanish fashion houses in his 20s and 30s, and in 1936, opened La Maison Balenciaga in Paris on the Avenue George V. Intensely private, he shunned press and publicity, which meant that the inner workings of his private and professional life remained largely unknown, apart from such facts (which the author drolly cites) as that he loved skiing and had bad sinuses."

Book News: Joyce in Shanghai, Rodman for Kids
New Yorker (blog)
The New York Review of Books editor, Bob Silvers, on editing, criticism, and the online content that forms a “universe of prose that is simply slipping through the consciousness of time without any systematic or thoughtful criticism.” Scott and Zelda...

New Yorker (blog)

Davis School District agrees to leave book about lesbian mothers on its ...
Salt Lake Tribune
The Davis School District agreed Thursday to leave a book about lesbian mothers on its library shelves, and won't remove any other books just because they include content on homosexuality. The agreement settles a lawsuit over the removal last spring of ...

New TED Book: Save Our Science
By Jim Daly
TED-Book-Save-Our-Science It is not nearly enough for students to simply churn out answers from memory. No, in our ever-changing time, they need to be able to think expansively and creatively. In order to solve the complex problems of ...
TED Blog

Celebrate Book Giving Day with a Beers for Books Party - GalleyCat
By Maryann Yin
As lovers make plans for Valentine's Day, book lovers need to remember that February 14th is also International Book Giving Day. Instead of making fancy restaurant reservation, perhaps you should organize Beers for Books party instead.
GalleyCat

New Book Looks At Emanuel's Family Past | NBC Chicago
By Mary Ann Ahern
Ezekiel “Zeke” Emanuel's new book, "Growing Up Emanuel," looks to confirm what Chicagoans have already witnessed: These three brothers like to fight. Zeke will be in Chicago speaking at the Union League...
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St. Paul divorce lawyer writes the book of (fizzled) love | MinnPost
By Amy Goetzman
I wished I had a book I could just give people,” she said in an interview. “I'd been looking for one for a long time and couldn't find anything. I relied on 'survival reading,' like Mary Oliver's poems, or Lorrie Moore's stories. A lot of divorce books ...
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Book Buzz: JD Salinger bio, Joaquin Phoenix in 'Inherent Vice'
USA TODAY
Salinger bio and documentary: David Shields and Shane Salerno's much buzzed about oral biography of J.D. Salinger will be published in September, and Salerno has directed a documentary on theauthor of The Catcher in the Rye, which will air in 2014, ...

Book News: Epic Readings, Epic Fail
New Yorker (blog)
In an excerpt from his new e-book “Epic Fail,” Mark O'Connell on the most “uniquely and thrillingly terrible” novelist in history. “These readings are really a counterpoint to the culture of Twitter or the sound bite.” The growing popularity of ...

New Yorker (blog)


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Eric Schmidt's new book The New Digital Age

Exclusive: Eric Schmidt Unloads on China in New Book
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Corporate Intelligence reviewed preliminary galleys of Schmidt's new book, “The New Digital Age,” (Random House) which debuts in April. And Schmidt's views on China stand out the strongest amid often predictable techno-utopian views of the future.

Wall Street Journal (blog)

Op-ed: Publishers' fear of e-books is hurting libraries
The Seattle Times
The digital mission of our local libraries is underscored by the fact that 62,000 people last year used King County's Overdrive system to read more than 1 million e-books and 290,000 audio books. E-book lending has grown at a rate of 300 percent over ...

The Seattle Times

You Can Judge a Book by Its Cover
New York Times
Covering up such crucial pieces of information would seem crazy for most books, but not for a reissue of “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” the 1949 novel in which the British author George Orwell predicted a bleak future of repression, surveillance and ...

Book festival aims to restore Lahore's cultural tradition
The Guardian
The Jaipur festival was established in 2005, and there are now 30 literary festivals in India, two in Bangladesh, one in Nepal and two in Pakistan, where a Karachi bookfestival was launched in 2010. The inaugural international Irrawadddy ... "I see ...

The Guardian

PGA Tour wives publish golf book for charity
GolfDigest.com (blog)
The cost for the 384-page hardcover volume published by Butler Books is $50, with net proceeds to benefit PTWA charities. "This book tells the story of what the players and wives are like off the golf course," Amy Wilson, wife of Mark Wilson and the ...

GolfDigest.com (blog)

'Schroder' Chronicles A Father's Desperate Mistakes
NPR
And the father doesn't attempt to tell him the circumstances of their leaving Germany until the very end of the book. ... "Erik Schroder decides to become Eric Kennedy when he's about 14 and he's tired of being bullied, for various reasons. He's tired ...

Just what the doctor ordered: Books will be prescribed as medicine in the UK
Christian Science Monitor
Under the Books on Prescription program, UK doctors will begin prescribing books – yes, books – to patients with mental health problems, including anxiety, depression, and panic attacks, the Reading Agency announced Thursday at the British Library ...

Christian Science Monitor

Book Review Podcast: The Legacy of Louis Agassiz - NYTimes.com
By By JOHN WILLIAMS
This week in The New York Times Book Review, Rebecca Stott reviews “Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science” by Christoph Irmscher. Agassiz was a prolific and influential scientist and teacher, but his racist beliefs and his opposition to ...
ArtsBeat

Schmidt book, Post attacks spotlight Made in China hacks
CNET
Schmidt book, Post attacks spotlight Made in China hacks. After New York Times, Wall Street Journal report suspected Chinese hacks on their systems, Washington Post says its computers were hit too. Also: Eric Schmidt weighs in on China threat in new ...

David's Book Club: Up From History
Daily Beast
Up From Slavery, the autobiography by Booker T. Washington, is a book one sees so often quoted in other histories that it's easy to develop the illusion that you have actually read it. But I hadn't, not until this past January. With Black History Month ...

10 Most Controversial Book Passages
Huffington Post
In the case of the books below, notoriety and controversy have added an extra facet to their reputations, propelling discussion and (in some instances) fierce debate that involved censorship. Here are our picks for the most infamous passages of famous ...

Doctors to Prescribe Self-Help Books, Poetry for Mental Health Ills
New York Times (blog)
LONDON — Doctors in England will soon be prescribing books as well as pills to patients suffering from anxiety and depression. In a government-endorsed initiative supported by medical associations and librarians, physicians will be sending patients to ...

New York Times (blog)

'How Literature Saved My Life' by David Shields
Boston Globe
Early on in his new book, “How Literature Saved My Life,” critic, essayist, and reformed novelist David Shields compares himself to George W. Bush, whom he considers his “worst self realized.” Evidence abounds: Both love to watch football and eat pretzels.

Boston Globe

Weekend picks for book lovers
USA TODAY
USA TODAY's picks for book lovers include a guide to "looking" while you walk, and two new 4-star mysteries from Great Britain. On Looking: Eleven Walks With Expert Eyes by Alexandra Horowitz; Scribner, 320 pp.; non-fiction. Alexandra Horowitz does ...

Book Buzz: Dan Stevens of 'Downton Abbey,' literary star
USA TODAY
Ann Patchett: Novelist Ann Patchett, co-owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville, talks about why bookstores are not dead, in a clip from Oprah's Super Soul Sunday broadcast. USA TODAY's Bob Minzesheimer interviews Patchett about her thriving store in the ...

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The Millions launches e-book venture

The Millions launches e-book venture
Los Angeles Times
The literary website the Millions is getting into the e-book business: Starting Tuesday, it will publish e-books that are available on Amazon.com, in Apple's iBookstore and at Barnes & Noble. While its website is about books, authors and publishing ...

Literary Web Site Enters the E-Books Fray
New York Times (blog)
On Tuesday, the site unveiled its first e-book, “Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever,” by Mark O'Connell. The book is billed as “an exploration of the Internet-era obsession with terrible art — bad YouTube pop songs ...

The Book of the Future, Sliced and Diced
New Yorker (blog)
At the Digital Book World conference, held in New York last week, one could hardly pass muster by holding up a stack of pages bound together. The crowd's sensibility was more conceptual; the word that filled the air was “content.” This was a fairground ...

New Yorker (blog)

Book Buzz: David Fincher in talks to direct 'Gone Girl'
USA TODAY
Saturday Night Widows: USA TODAY's Bob Minzesheimer interviews the "Saturday night widows," a group of women working to remake their lives after loss, and the subject of a new book by one of the group members, Becky Aikman. And read more about ...

Self-published star Colleen Hoover has book deal
Wall Street Journal
NEW YORK — Self-published star Colleen Hoover has signed with Atria Books for her latest best seller, "Hopeless." Hoover's agent, Jane Dystel, said Tuesday that Atria will publish the print version of "Hopeless," while the author will continue to ...

Book News: Twitter Stockpile, Controversial Curriculum
New Yorker (blog)
Today Random House launches BookScout, a new app that lets users share their favorite books through Facebook. How a group of Michael Jackson fans used Twitter and Facebook to take down a new biography they say attempts to “dehumanize, dismantle ...

New Yorker (blog)

Could Selling A Used Book Become Illegal?: "Most of us have probably sold an old book at a yard sale, on eBay, given it to a library, or some such thing. We probably never gave it a second thought. Maybe we need to. Maybe we are criminals, violating copyright law. A case has come before the Supreme Court that could turn some of our assumptions upside down, at least as pertains to books produced overseas. Take that, Gutenberg! You better read Johannes' copyright notice before you sell your copy of his bible. This issue arose from the brainchild of Supap Kirtsaeng, a student from Thailand attending college in America."

Metro Show and Editions/Artists' Book Fair
New York Times
Running concurrently with the Metro Show in another part of the Metropolitan Pavilion is a distinctly different exhibition, the Editions/Artists' Books Fair. Devoted primarily to producers of contemporary prints and books, this show has a spirit that ...

New York Times

Lance Armstrong and his book publisher Penguin being sued because memoirs ...
Telegraph.co.uk
The claim is that Armstrong, who has admitted drug taking throughout his career, and his publishers violated consumer protection laws on false advertising and fraud by marketing his books It's Not About the Bike and Every Second Counts as works of non...

Telegraph.co.uk

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