Amazon buys book-focused social network Goodreads

Amazon to buy book-focused social network Goodreads
Los Angeles Times
Amazon.com Inc., which got its start as an online bookseller, went on to create the Kindle e-reader and has gotten into book publishing, is now pushing into the social side of reading. ... Goodreads launched in 2007, the same year that Amazon ...

Los Angeles Times

Group sends female inmates books
Chicago Tribune
I love the books. Thank you and God bless." Yet there was something about the handwriting, a delicate and elegant script, that moved Megan Bernard to fold the note up and put it in her wallet, where she keeps it still. "It was just so human, so ...

Chicago Tribune

Books bring dark issues to light for teen readers
San Jose Mercury News
Here are some of the subjects that books for young adults tackled in the past year or so: School shootings, terrorism, post-traumatic stress disorder, homelessness, sex, discrimination, substance abuse, death and grieving. That may ... "When teenagers ...

Jane Goodall apologizes for 'borrowed' passages in new book
Mother Nature Network (blog)
As the book was co-authored by veteran writer and publisher Gail Hudson (who also teamed with Goodall on two other books), it's unclear who exactly is at fault for not including the proper accreditation. "Jane does a vast amount of her own writing ...

Mother Nature Network (blog)

Can a Hot Book Trailer Spell Success?
Huffington Post
I chatted up three people in the field: Tom Miller, an executive editor at McGraw-Hill; Brian Gresko, whose anthology on fatherhood When I First Held You is being published by Berkley Books an imprint of Penguin); and Adam Cushman, president/CEO of Red ...

Newtown first selectwoman critical of flurry of new books
Torrington Register Citizen
It's the age of print on demand, the instant book, in which you can send a file to Amazon, design your own cover and sell it as a paperback or an e-book. While at least four books related to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings are available at ...

E-book Sales Bolster Publishers' Bottom Lines
Publishers Weekly
Although costs associated with reaching e-book settlements with the Department of Justice and state attorneys general cut into some houses' profits, none of the big-five trade publishers posted a margin of less than 9% in 2012. And more than one ...

'Girls' Gone Wild by J. Hoberman - The New York Review of Books
Spring Breakers, the new film by Harmony Korine, opens with an impressively staged shot of pure pulchritude—a mass of golden bodies gyrating on a Florida beach—rendered somewhat absurd by the cartoonish sounds of Skrillex's wacky ...
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Book Review: River Of Stars by Guy Gavriel Kay - Blogcritics Books
By Richard Marcus
Book Review: River Of Stars by Guy Gavriel Kay. Share. Author: Richard Marcus — Published: Mar 30, 2013 at 7:22 am 1 comment. When I was making my first tentative steps into the world of the arts, it was the writers who used words to ...
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Clive Davis releases new book | WPMT FOX43
By rpickensfox43
You've probably heard of him and now you can read about him. Clive Davis, the man behind artists like Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen and Janis Joplin, has a new book out. His autobiography, "The Soundtrack of my Life", chronicles ...
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Guardian review | Books | The Guardian
Julian Barnes' new book is part essay, part short story, part memoir but, above all, ... after the fall of Troy as retold by an author working in the shadow of the Stasi ...
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Tweet Any Good Books Lately? - Laura Moser - Voices - AllThingsD
If there's one thing I like more than reading books, it's sharing my opinions about them. But I'm too overscheduled and disorganized to commit to a book club.
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Global Finance Grudge Match

In a new book, Benn Steil describes in detail the intellectual back-and-forth that played out in 1944 at the Bretton Woods monetary conference--
A Grudge Match for Global Finance
New York Times
The book confirms that Keynes was an intellectual giant with flawless intuition for finance, but it also exposes his caustic criticisms of lesser men and his tin ear for workaday diplomacy. ... But be warned: the book is dense. Every skirmish, every ...

'How We Decide', Jonah Lehrer Book, Being Pulled From Shelves
Huffington Post
Glazer said Friday that the publisher will continue to sell a third Lehrer book, "Proust Was a Neuroscientist," which was released in 2007. The 31-year-old Lehrer had been a popular author and speaker, specializing in books and essays about how the ...

My Brother's Book by Maurice Sendak – review
The Guardian
What My Brother's Book does have in common with Sendak's works for children is a primal feeling of terror, in a disorientating, dreamlike realm. Here, these elements combine in a sparse elegy to Sendak's older brother Jack, also a children's author ...

Searching for clues — and a home
Chicago Tribune
Chicago-based author Blue Balliett's new book, "Hold Fast" is a literary mystery set amid the harsh realities of the homeless. Joining the ranks of Calder and Petra, the resourceful preteen heroes of Balliett's previous novels, "Chasing Vermeer," "The ...

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Interview: 'Romance with a Twist of Mystery' Author Terry Odell
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
One of the secondary characters, Colleen McDonald, wanted her own book. The book has been through three iterations. It was published as ... But to answer your questions the books on my nightstand right now: Guilt, by Jonathan Kellerman; A River in the ...

Ann Arbor book club celebrates 18 years of meeting at Nicola's Books
AnnArbor.com
The venue has always been Nicola's Books, 2513 Jackson Ave., at the Westgate Shopping Center in Ann Arbor, and Saturday afternoon, In Good Company members are thanking and recognizing owner Nicola Rooney with a brief ceremony before their ...

The Guardian

Conceptual Inspiration, by the Book
New York Times
The artist Ed Ruscha was standing in the middle of Gagosian's 24th Street gallery in Chelsea on a cool fall day, surrounded by paintings of books he has created over many decades. There were canvases that mimicked old tomes he found in flea markets and...

New York Times

Garry Wills: By the Book
New York Times
The author of “Nixon Agonistes,” “John Wayne's America,” “Lincoln at Gettysburg,” “Reagan's America” and, most recently, “Why Priests? ... By the Book: Archive (May 3, 2012) ... Are there any particular kinds of books you prefer to listen to rather ...

Book Buzz: Rudyard Kipling poems discovered, new Thomas Pynchon novel
USA TODAY
New Thomas Pynchon: Author Thomas Pynchon's forthcoming novel, Bleeding Edge, will be released Sept. 17. The book will take place in New York City's Silicon Alley "in the lull between the collapse of the dotcom boom and the terrible events of September ...

Are Body and Sex Education Books for Parents, or Kids?
New York Times (blog)
The new books divide topics by age. The pediatrician Cara Natterson, who helped write the update, told the USA Today reporter Michelle Healy that younger girls are given more information about what's happening to their bodies, while older girls get ...

New York Times (blog)

6 Reasons Why Google's Author Tags Are Important to Leaders
Forbes
Many companies rely on a strong online presence to generate sales or build brand awareness. Most strategies are in-depth and should be handled by your marketing team. However, Google's authortag is one strategy that every leader should take advantage ...

Book News: Pedestrian Poet, Digital Book Signing
New Yorker (blog)
On Wednesday, Toni Morrison will hold a “digital book signing” through Google Hangouts in honor of Black History Month. Fifty previously unpublished poems by Rudyard Kipling will be available next month in a three-volume collection of his poetry.

New Yorker (blog)

'Pandora's Lunchbox': New Book Reveals How Processed Food Took Over The ...
Huffington Post
In the same vein, a new book, Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Foods Took Over the American Meal, debuts on Feb. 26. Written by Melanie Warner, a former food industry reporter, the bookdelves into some similar topics as Moss's article (and book).

Brandi Glanville Hopes to Turn Tell-All Book Into a Lifetime "Unromantic Comedy"
Us Magazine
Television personality Brandi Glanville poses before signing copies of her new book'Drinking And Tweeting' at Barnes & Noble bookstore at The Grove on February 20, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. Credit: Amanda Edwards/WireImage.com ...

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E-book porn on Amazon's Kindle

E-book porn flourishes on Amazon's Kindle
CNET
Access to e-book porn isn't limited to the Kindle world. Searching for the term "adult picture book" on the Barnes & Noble Nook store also brings back a list with hundreds of e-books packed with hardcore images created by the company's PubIt! Nook ...

Book Buzz: Nine writers awarded $150000 each
USA TODAY
Eloisa James e-books: Romance author Eloisa James is releasing her newest book With This Kiss as a digital original to be published interstitially in three parts, the first to be published March 12. Read a review of James' memoir Paris in Love from USA ...

Book News: Male Authors Still Get Far More Coverage, Survey Shows
NPR (blog)
The New York Review of Books (89 reviews of female authors in 2012 to 316 of male authors), the London Review of Books (74 female authors to 203 male) and the Times Literary Supplement (314 female authors to 924 male authors) fared especially ill. (NPR...

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Book Buzz: Jonah Lehrer book pulled after fact-checking review
USA TODAY
Jonah Lehrer book pulled: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has pulled a second book by disgraced journalist Jonah Lehrer, How We Decide, after an internal fact-checking review. The publisher pulled his book Imagine after it came out that he had fabricated ...

Book News: 'New Yorker' Plagiarist's Book Pulled From Shelves
NPR (blog)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has decided that disgraced journalist and author Jonah Lehrer's second book, How We Decide, will be taken off shelves at bookstores after the publisher's internal investigation uncovered "significant problems," The Daily Beast...

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Bush 41 defends Bush 43 in updated book
USA TODAY (blog)
Former president George H.W. Bush has updated his 1999 book of letters, including missives from the past 14 years -- notably ones about the presidency of son George W. Bush. "I am really down about the way the president has been attacked," the senior ...

The Art of Browsing
New Yorker (blog)
The tactile process of pulling out a stack of books and flipping through them is, to me, more stimulating than toggling between the windows open on my Web browser. Even the nomenclature “browser” is worth noting: it removes our agency. The software ...

Book News: Dating Homer, Distinctive Bylines
New Yorker (blog)
A team of geneticists studied linguistic “mutations” to pinpoint a publication date for the “Iliad.” The film adaptation of “Pride, Prejudice and Zombies,” written by David O. Russell, is officially underway. Mark Twain's “Life on the Mississippi” is ...
 
New Yorker (blog)

Tournament of Books: March Madness for readers
Christian Science Monitor
The ninth annual Tournament of Books, founded by the magazine The Morning News, began yesterday and will choose the best book of the year through a March Madness-style bracket system. ... York Times Magazine writer and “This American Life” contributor ...

Christian Science Monitor

Exclusive excerpt from Bob Knight's book
ESPN (blog)
AP Photo/John Swart In Bob Knight's new book, the coach imparts wisdom acquired over four decades as a college head coach. [Editor's note: In “The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results,” legendary ...

Astros' Bo Porter part of spiritual book club featuring Nationals' Bryce Harper
Houston Chronicle (blog)
What the club's been reading: Actually, it's a spiritual-devotional book. Last year, the book was Tony Dungy, 'Uncommon Life.' This year, it's a spiritual-devotional. Daily declaration of spirituality and it's a message that goes out every day. It ...

Houston Chronicle (blog)

Books to Watch Out For: March : The New Yorker
By The New Yorker
The story is set during Woodrow Wilson's tenure as president of Princeton, and Wilson—along with Upton Sinclair, Jack London, and Mark Twain—appears as a character in the book. It's both a supernatural thriller (though Oates started the ...
Culture Desk

Thai E-book Provider Ookbee Adds 6,000 New Users Each Day ...
By Victoria Ho
It seems the e-book market in Thailand has been quietly flourishing, at least according to a local provider of digital books and magazines, Ookbee. The company is the country's biggest e-bookstore, with a claimed 88 percent market share.
TechCrunch

Cities without highways: A Q&A with TED Book essayist Diana Lind
By rachelllh
City 2.0: The Habitat of the Future and How to Get There is a new TED Books anthology that seeks to answer some of the key questions about how best to develop thriving cities – tackling everything from issues of sustainability to infrastructure ...
TED Blog

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Farewell, Dorothy Parker, Literary Idol

Literary Idol Comes To Life in 'Farewell, Dorothy Parker'
NPR
Author Ellen Meister tells NPR's Rachel Martin that she first encountered Parker's work as a teenager. "I was from the generation, we probably thought that we invented sex, and we invented sarcasm, and we invented snark and disrespect," she says. "So ...

Books: New and noteworthy
USA TODAY
We scope out the hottest books on sale the week of Feb. 24. 1. Calculated in ... 1 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list in 2011. 2. Benediction by Kent ... The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult (Emily Bestler Books/Atria, fiction, on sale Feb. 26). What it ...

'Facing the Wave': devastation and heartbreak in the tsunami's aftermath
The Seattle Times
Cooling seawater used to delay meltdown released pollution now “considered the worst maritime contamination disaster in recorded history,” Gretel Ehrlich writes in her heartbreaking new book, “Facing the Wave.” By June, when she made the ... Ehrlich ...

Don't Miss These Favorite Small Business Books From 2012
Small Business Trends
With the 2013 Small Business Book Awards underway, I could not help but reminisce about my favorite small business books. I thought about the ones that made an impact on my way of thinking moving forward. I felt these books also impacted how small ...

Small Business Trends

The write path
The Hindu
The book, which is to be released next month, is a teenage fiction that traces Alisha's life, her journey through school, the friendships she creates, and so on. “I plan on writing this as a ... Lawyer-turned-author Kirti's book aims at enabling people ...

The Hindu

Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw – review
The Guardian
The book teems with advice, slogans, formulas for success. Chapters have headings such as "Choose the Right Moment to Launch Yourself" or the more Confucian "A Strong Fighting Spirit Swallows Mountains and Rivers". Phoebe reads self-help bookswith ...

The Guardian

THE BOOK SHELF: A Les Miz Coffee Table Book and Benedict Nightingale's ...
Playbill.com
This month's column looks at the deluxe, over-stuffed new coffee table book about Les Misérables, plus a survey of world drama entitled "Great Moments in the Theatre," both emanating from veteran London theatre critic Benedict Nightingale. *. Les ...

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'Coolidge': new biography of a parsimonious president
The Seattle Times
Books E-mail. The latest book reviews, author interviews, and local literary events. Sent weekly. (Sample) · All newsletters Privacy statement · Help recruiters find you! Post your resume on NWjobs.com today. Advertising ...

Baseball: Pizza book a bizarre page-turner
Salisbury Post
While some former athletes take an approach to writing in tomes that can be revealing, even therapeutic, others, such as Piazza in his new book, "Long Shot," aren't quite as forthcoming. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File). There's always a danger when a ...

Ask Engadget: best / most 'open' e-book store?
By Daniel Cooper
If you're looking to ask one of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com. "During a recent move, I dumped a dozen boxes of books at goodwill, and have decided to give e-books a try. But what's the most "open" way to buy them?
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Wonkette Book Club Update: We've Scored A Livechat With Author ...
By Doktor Zoom
Just a quick reminder, Wonkeratti, that you have a bit over a week to get ahold of and read our BookClub's first selection, Andy Carvin's Distant Witness: Social Media, the Arab Spring and a Journalism Revolution. Carvin became something. ... February 23, 2013. WONKETTE WORLD O' BOOKS 7:01 pm February 23, 2013 ... Not sure if you'll have time to receive a dead-trees version, but the e-book is available for virtually any screen you already read Your Wonkette on. You want more ...
Wonkette

Convicted bomber publishes book from prison | timesfreepress.com
The book — titled “Between the Lines of Drift: The Memoirs of a Militant” — is hardly a best-seller: It ranked No. 24,040 in sales on Friday at a website that allows authors to publish their own works. But the government said it will still try to seize ...
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The Roger Ailes Book Wars

The First Strike in the Roger Ailes Book Wars
New York Times (blog)
On Wednesday Vanity Fair's Web site published an excerpt from the first of two — or maybe three — books about Mr. Ailes and the network he runs, the Fox News Channel. The excerpt, from thebook “Roger Ailes: Off Camera” by Zev Chafets, revealed ...

Book explores dangers of tech 'solutionism'
USA TODAY (blog)
It has the potential to change the world. However, applying technology as a solution to the world's problems carries pitfalls, says Evgeny Morozov, author of the book To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism, launching ...

Jeb Bush's book on immigration stirs controversy
Christian Science Monitor
It's the book everyone in Washington is talking about. It appears to outline a change of heart for a major Republican figure. And it's already got folks speculating about whether the author will run in the Republican presidential primary in 2016. Skip ...

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Men still dominate books world, study shows
The Guardian
Male authors and reviewers continue to take a disproportionate slice of the literary pie, according to new research which reveals that publications including the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement and the New Yorker all show a ...

The Guardian

Sega Will Publish Company of Heroes 2 in June
Wired (blog)
Ryan Rigney is a regular contributor to Game|Life and the designer of Orb Combat Simulator 2019, now on iTunes. His book, "Buttonless," is available on Amazon. Read more by Ryan Rigney. Follow @rkrigney on Twitter. Tags: Company of Heroes, Relic ...

World Book Day aims to be 'biggest book show on earth'
The Guardian
Children's author and television presenter Robinson will host the event, Horrid Henry creator Simon will show how to bring characters to life, and Alfie author Shirley Hughes will explain the secrets of illustration. ... As well as events in schools ...

The Guardian

Second-Person Narrator Tells Readers 'How To' Live, Love — And Get Filthy Rich
NPR
The bearded narrator of that book sits at a tea stall in Lahore, talking about his drift toward extremism while directly addressing "you," the reader, who is taken to be an increasingly jumpy and terrified American across the table. Hamid returns to ...

Cal Ripken Jr. talks O's, instant replay, book
ESPN (blog)
Cal Ripken Jr. Getty Images Cal Ripken Jr., one of the most celebrated players ever, has kept himself busy since retiring in 2001. Cal Ripken Jr. sat down with ESPN Playbook on Tuesday afternoon to promote his third children's book, “Wild Pitch,” a ...

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A Fake Self Help Book on 'Getting Filthy Rich' in Asia
The Atlantic
HAMID : The story behind the title of the book comes from when I was with a friend, an editor of a literary magazine, in New York and we were talking about books. We're talking about fiction and how it basically deals with "self-help" because we (as a ...

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Could You Write A Book?

Could You Write A Book? Should You? (Read This First)
Forbes
First of all, if your entrepreneurial goal is to author a book as a means of making a living from your book sales, here's fair warning: You probably won't. ... It will not be abook about “you.” That said, there is much success for books such as “31 ...

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Weekend picks for book lovers
USA TODAY
"Though imperfect, the book is a skillful, delicate apprehension of that picture and its moment in history." Chanel Bonfire by Wendy Lawless; Gallery Books, 295 pp.; non-fiction. A memoir that recounts the author's unstable childhood under the care ...

'Parisian Diet:' Just Savor Food, Author Says
ABC News
'Parisian Diet:' Just Savor Food, Author Says. Can the key to being French skinny simply be portion control and enjoying your food?  ...

Pulp Tunes: Artist Re-Imagines Classic Rock Albums as Book Covers
TIME
What if Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced? had been a business self-help book spun off a reality TV show titled “The Experience”? If Robert Zimmerman (that is, Bob Dylan) had penned a pulpy 1958 thriller about a lover's spat titled Blood on the Tracks?

TIME

Army's First Interactive iPad Book Lets You Finger-Swipe Through Afghanistan
Wired
The enhanced iPad edition is a step up from previous Army digitized books: It's the first immersive, interactive Army e-book, replacing the simple PDF-style scans with dynamic animations of the warzone. Maps shift, videos load, audio plays and pictures ...

Shereen El Feki discusses her new book on sex in the Arab world
Los Angeles Times
Shereen El Feki has chosen a decidedly less conventional lens with her new new book “Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World” (Pantheon, $29), due out Tuesday. The book takes a close look at the sexual lives of men and women in the ...

New Book Offers Tips On Extending A Dog's Life Expectancy
CBS Local
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Maybe, as the movie title goes, All Dogs Go to Heaven, but for their owners it's often too soon. But there are some things they can do about it. When author Ted Kerasote's dog Merle, died, he decided to rethink the whole process...

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Book Tries for Balanced View on Roosevelt and Jews
New York Times
The issue has spawned a large literary response, with books often bearing polemical titles like “The Abandonment of the Jews” or “Saving the Jews.” But in a new volume from Harvard University Press, two historians aim to set the matter straight with ...

New York Times

The Irish Times and Eason Book Club
Irish Times
... week's book: Absolution by Patrick Flanery Available from Saturday 9th - Friday 15th March In her garden, ensconced in the lush vegetation of the Western Cape, Clare Wald, world-renowned author, mother and critic, takes up her pen and confronts her ...

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Noteworthy new books

Books: New and noteworthy
USA TODAY
The buzz: Originally a self-published series of short stories that sold more than 400,000 e-books, Wool is now being released in hardcover and paperback; Ridley Scott's production company bought the film rights. 3. Mumbai New York Scranton by Tamara ...

Paul Krugman: Sheryl Sandberg's Book Shows How 'Unprepared We Are To ...
Huffington Post
The Pulitzer Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist said that the debate over over Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's highly-anticipated book “Lean In,” indicates that our country is woefully unready for women to treat women equally in the ...

Darkness Visible: 'He Died With His Eyes Open' Is A Crime Novel Like No Other
NPR
This book was the first of what came to be known as the Factory series. ... He pursues cases that no one else would find worthwhile, plunging like an intoxicated author into the lives of others until he can taste them, move under their skins. Raymond's ...

Beware Random House's Ebook Imprints
Forbes
As with every business partnership, there are specific costs associated with bringing a booksuccessfully to market, and we state them very straightforwardly and transparently in our authoragreements. These costs could be much higher–and certainly be ...

Jeb Bush Didn't Show His Book To Political Advisers Before Its Release
Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- A long-time adviser to Jeb Bush said Saturday that the former Florida governor did not show his recently released book on immigration to her or, as far as she knows, to anyone else in his informal circle of counselors. Sally Bradshaw, a ...

2013 Tucson Festival of Books
C-SPAN
C-SPAN's Book TV covers the final day of the 2013 Tucson Festival of Books, held on the University of Arizona's campus. Watch panel discussions on the environment, Tinajas Atlas and American journalism. Our festival coverage begins with Washington ...

Portsmouth, NH, Book & Bar
Boston.com
As the winter sun gushed through the tall picture windows of the bookstore-taproom hybrid, dozens of customers lounged on sofas, held court at a cozy six-seat bar, and huddled around tables imbibing books and glasses of beer and wine. While cafes have ...

Top novelists look to ebooks to challenge the rules of fiction
The Guardian
"I am trying to find a new way of telling stories, and once you start thinking about it, there are almost too many possibilities," said the Oxford-based writer, who is completing an interactive ebook for Faber that will stretch the form to its current ...

The Guardian

New book recalls Staten Island as the darling of painters and printmakers
SILive.com
But, a new book, "Staten Island Scenery: 1679-1900," plans to remind 21st Century inhabitants that the place was fodder for artists long before it beckoned to the Hudson River painters. Historian Barnett Shepherd, who has already written definitively ...

Want to Rank in Google? Build Your Author Rank Now
Search Engine Watch
In "SEO Revelations for 2013", I wrote this about rel=author: "This will be the big new ranking signal for 2013". A mere 19 days later, a very interesting excerpt from "The New Digital Age", the upcomingbook authored by Google Executive Chairman Eric ...

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Quotes for Writers

10 Essential Quotes for Writers | Purpose, Inc. | Big Think: . . . .“It’s not about what happens to people on a page; it’s about what happens to a reader in his heart and mind.” –Gordon Lish, legendary editor who helped launch Raymond Carver and Amy Hempel - “The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.” –Toni Morrison; her peers voted Beloved the greatest novel of the past 25 years - “We struggle against most of our exceptional qualities until we’re about forty and then, too late, find out they compose the real us.” –Gertrude Stein as quoted by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who considered her a genius; and she was Hemingway’s literary wet-nurse . . . “The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have it.” –Ernest Hemingway, the man who started a literary revolution with short sentences and paragraphs . . . .“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.” –Ray Bradbury, wrote every day and never went to college . . . ."

E-book porn flourishes on Amazon's Kindle | Internet & Media - CNET News: "Amazon has a problem with pornography. The company created technology to filter smut from its library of video and print offerings and it also pays humans to do the same thing. In spite of that, Kindle users can still download e-books with the same sort of raunchy images and titles normally seen in nudie mags sold at liquor store newsstands. . . ."

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Amazon May Seem Unstoppable, But Google Is Powering the Counterattack | Wired Business | Wired.com:
" . . . Google’s increasingly aggressive effort to steal online retail from Amazon is turning into one of the most intriguing business battles of the year, and not just because of the sight of two behemoths pounding on each other. Google’s unique position in the internet’s infrastructure means that it can count on more than its own resources to take on Amazon. The search giant also serves as the platform from which everyone else trying to beat Amazon can use to fire their salvos. It’s a pretty high perch from which to take aim. San Francisco-based Inkling is specifically shooting for Amazon’s book business. Founder and CEO Matt MacInnis observes that the Kindle isn’t especially well suited to the oversized, graphics-intensive layouts of many textbooks. Inkling seeks to overcome this limitation of traditional e-book formats through a layout engine specifically designed to re-envision textbooks for tablets, smartphones and the web. But elegant design doesn’t take you far if most online shoppers are going straight to Amazon to buy books. That’s why Inkling has developed an information architecture based on the concept of “cards.” Each of the books is divided into chapters, and each chapter is divided into cards. . . . "

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Sheryl Sandberg “A Powerpoint Pied Piper in Prada ankle books?”

Lean In, Read On: 21 Perspectives on Sheryl Sandberg's Book
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Maureen Dowd, also writing in the Times, derides the Facebook Inc. chief operating officer as a “Powerpoint Pied Piper in Prada ankle books.” Referring to Dowd, Kantor and several others, The New Yorker suggests perhaps reading the book before ...

Wall Street Journal (blog)

Random House accused of 'predatory' contracts for new ebook imprint
The Guardian
This would be enough for the association to disqualify Hydra authors from SFWA membership, the statement continues, but it is the "outrageous" attempt "to shift to theauthor costs customarily borne by the publisher" which gives cause to the ...

The Guardian

The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon – review
The Guardian
Aleksandar Hemon's new book is being billed as his third continuous prose narrative, a non-fiction successor to the novels Nowhere Man and The Lazarus Project, but it has far more in common with Love and Obstacles, a collection of autobiographical ...

The Guardian

Book Review Podcast: Matrimony in the Movies - NYTimes.com
By By JOHN WILLIAMS
Listen to previous podcasts from the Book Review. This week in The New York Times Book Review, Judith Newman reviews “I Do and I Don't,” Jeanine Basinger's new book about the history of marriage in the movies. Ms. Newman writes: ...
ArtsBeat

More forthcoming books : SCOTUSblog
By Ronald Collins
Finally, this year two Supreme Court correspondents will publish new books: the National Law Journal's Marcia Coyle (see below) and TheWall Street Journal's Jess Bravin (The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay, Yale University ... In this book, Paul M. Collins, Jr., and Lori A. Ringhand present a contrarian view that uses both empirical data and stories culled from more than seventy years of transcripts to demonstrate that the hearings are a democratic forum for the ...
SCOTUSblog

Friday Book Design Blog: Penguin Lines - Blogs - The Independent
By Jonathan Gibbs
The twelve Penguin Lines are an interesting example of the book-as-object, showing how books can be designed and marketed to combat the ebook - in fact, in their uncanny resemblance to the iPod Classic, they show you can being utterly ... these guys are set free from their orange oval cage, colour-coded to match the line livery, and are large enough that the peculiar expression on the penguin's face seems to be very much directed at the author and the book title just to their right.
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The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

Salman Khan (source: charlierose.com)

Charlie Rose with Salman Khan
in Books on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Salman Khan, Founder of the Khan Academy on his book “The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined” --go to link below to watch entire interview
http://www.charlierose.com/view/content/12798

Book Buzz: EL James talks about her next book
USA TODAY
Jacquelyn Mitchard imprint: Publishers Weekly interviews author Jacquelyn Mitchard about the motivation behind her young adult imprint, Merit Press: to "find today's classics, the next The Outsiders." The author, whose book The Deep End of the Ocean ...

Michael Jordan business icon?: Author tells companies to be like Mike
Chicago Tribune
Jordan shouldn't be emulated just because of the Bulls star's individual success, the author says, but by the way he showed leadership and helped create a seemingly unstoppable team, meshing with different personalities such as the quiet Scottie Pippen ...

The Trouble With Finding Books Online - And A Few Solutions
Forbes
Online peer reviews are notoriously unreliable, and although Amazon and other sites have made significant efforts to eliminate biased or untrustworthy reviews, it is still difficult to judge the quality of a book from consumer reviews alone. I had the ...

Beauty and Beast: the book Dominique Strauss-Kahn wanted to ban
The Guardian (blog)
The book describes how last year Iacub had a seven-month affair with an unnamed public figure, whom she later identified as Strauss-Kahn. The man is described as "king of the pigs", "an artist of the sewers, a poet of filth and abjection" and is ...

The Guardian (blog)

Questlove Adds 'Author' To His Resume
Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
“Everyone's favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the greats, the fakes and the true originals of the music world,” puffed up today's announcement of the book release. ”He digs deep into the album cuts of his life ...

Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)

Vatican spokesman: Pope Benedict 'won't be doing book tours'
Today.com (blog)
“He's not the kind of person who's going on a book tour — he may continue writing, but he won't be doing book tours.” Earlier in the day, the pope arrived for his sendoff in the open-sided “popemobile,” passing through tens of thousands that had ...

Chris Jericho on new TV show, book, tour
ESPN (blog)
It's a long process to write, and the first two books were so well-received that there is more pressure for this third book. I've been so busy. That is one thing about my life. I'm all about branding 'Chris Jericho.' And that's not just wrestling or ...

ESPN (blog)

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Book Ban Denied; French Court Rules ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
A French court on Tuesday delivered its decision in the Dominique Strass-Kahn book ban case, ruling that lawyer Marcela Iacub's kiss-and-tell about the former International Monetary Fund chief would not be blocked from stores. However, the ...
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Boy, 6, Writes Book to Raise $30K for Sick Friend | KTLA 5
By shawnmcginnis
Dylan Siegel knows what it means to be a true friend. "He's funny nice kind and cool!," says best friend, Jonah. Dylan's best bud since pre-school, Jonah fights a life threatening disease. And Dylan stepped up to help. "Dylan had decided he.
KTLA 5

Big City Book Club — Women and Sex in 'The Group' - NYTimes.com
By By JAMES COLLINS
... women's movement just ahead of her. But she got sex right, the author James Collins says. ... Big City Book Club. A regular discussion with Ginia Bellafante. To give a sense of what McCarthy's own life was like when “The Group” was published, it's interesting to read a letter that Robert Lowell wrote to Elizabeth Bishop in August 1963. Lowell recounted a recent visit with .... It's dirtier than those famously scandalous books, but also more grown-up about sex. In that way, those scenes ...
City Room

Bork's posthumous book tells of Nixon's promise after Saturday ...
The book, Saving Justice, says Nixon made the promise after Bork complied with Nixon's order to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox in 1973, the Associated Press reports. Bork said he's not sure whether Nixon made the promise ...
ABA Journal Daily News

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Authors Buy Their Way Onto Best-Seller Lists

Authors Buy Their Way Onto Best-Seller Lists - WSJ.com: " . . . For the marketing of "Networking is Dead," co-author Melissa G. Wilson, a writer and consultant, says she hired ResultSource in part because she wanted to understand the experience firsthand before deciding whether she could recommend it to her publishing clients. When asked how the process worked, Ms. Wilson said, "I write a check to Kevin, he buys the books and he ships them." Ms. Wilson said ResultSource shipped the titles to the people to whom she had presold the books. She added that she doesn't know how ResultSource did that so that the books were counted by best-seller lists. "It's a secret sauce," she said. She said she was able to presell 3,000 copies—a big chunk of the first-week hardcover sales of 4,500—in part by telling companies that had hired her to speak that she would prefer to provide them with books in lieu of part of her speaking fee. Ms. Wilson said she is satisfied with ResultSource's work. The publisher, BenBella Books, said "Networking is Dead" has sold about 8,800 copies to date, including paperbacks and e-books. . . ."

Book: Solutions elusive for New Orleans schools
USA TODAY
Her new book, Hope Against Hope, traces the effort mainly through the eyes of three main characters: a seasoned charter school principal, a young teacher and, most prominently, Geraldlynn Stewart, a New Orleans girl who was 9 at the time of the storm.

'Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall,' by Will Ellsworth-Jones
New York Times
The journalist Will Ellsworth-Jones's new book, “Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall,” examines the conundrums behind Banksy and the growing Banksy brand, the paradoxes involved in an outsider trying to hold onto his street cred while becoming an art world ...

The co-author of 'Hubris' on torture, secrets–and what we still don't know
MSNBC
NBC News National Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff co-authored the best-selling book Hubris with David Corn, an MSNBC contributor and the Washington Bureau Chief of Mother Jones. Their book is the basis for the new MSNBC documentary, ...

MSNBC

Book Discussion on [The Way of the Bootstrapper] - C-SPAN Video Library: "Former Rep. Flake talked about his book, The Way of the Bootstrapper: Nine Action Steps for Achieving Your Dreams, published by HarperSanFranciso. The former congressman is senior pastor of the Allen African Methodist Episcopal Cathedral in Jamaica, Queens, the largest church in New York state. His book is about “bootstrapping,” his motivational system of taking personal responsibility in order to create a successful life. The system consists of a process, a mindset, and a value system. The book also includes Rep. Flake’s personal story." (watch the video at the link above)

Book Discussion on [Smuggler Nation] - C-SPAN Video Library: "Professor Peter Andreas talked about his book, Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America, in which he reveals the long history of smuggling in the U.S., which, prior to the Revolutionary War, was driven by a desire to grow domestic industries and bypass import taxes to the British. Today, the U.S. is the leading market in the world for illicitly traded goods, while at the same time being one of the leading voices for reform. Professor Andreas spoke at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island."

Author, screenwriter Delia Ephron to speak in Bridgewater
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
She has written novels and books of humor, including "How to Eat Like a Child," and her articles have appeared in The New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, More, and The Huffington Post. Ephron also collaborated with her famed sister Nora ...

Who has the best book covers – the UK or the US?
The Guardian (blog)
Why, the annual Judging Books By Their Covers competition held at themillions.com, which pits US book covers against their UK versions to see which will emerge as Top Nation At Least As Far As Book Cover Art Goes. May We Be Forgiven by AM Homes:...

The Guardian (blog)

Book Review: Murder in the Rue Dumas: A Verlaque and Bonnet Mystery by ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Penguin has released in paperback Murder in the Rue Dumas, the second in a series of detective novels by author M. L. Longworth featuring the Chief Magistrate of Aix-en-Provence, Judge Antoine Verlaque. The first novel, Death at the Chateau Bremont, ...

Keith O'Brien's 6 favorite books
The Week Magazine
But you don't need to be to love Halberstam's book about the 1964 World Series, which pitted the regal Yanks against a rising Cardinals team that seemed to represent baseball's future. The book changed my life. I read it and wanted to be not Bob Gibson...

The Week Magazine

Thinking Beyond the Creationists and the Darwinists
New York Times
The directions to the rural North Texas home of Jim Marrs, an author and conspiracy researcher, certainly sound like something from an old episode of “The X-Files”: “Go north about seven miles, and watch for a sign on a green metal gate at the top of a ...

Book thefts cost Austin libraries $1.1M in 5 years
San Francisco Chronicle
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Austin Public Library system loaned out $1.1 million worth of books and other items in the past five years that have not been returned, a newspaper and TV station found. A review by the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV ...

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Independent Booksellers Sue Amazon and Publishers

Independent Booksellers Sue Amazon and Publishers Over E-Books
"Three independent, brick-and-mortar bookstores have filed a lawsuit against Amazon and the big six publishers, claiming that they are violating antitrust laws by collaborating to keep small sellers out of the e-book market. In a lawsuit filed on Friday in Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York, the Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza and Posman Books, both based in New York, and Fiction Addiction, based in South Carolina, alleged that they and other small bookstores were being deliberately forced out of the digital market as a result of agreements between the big publishers and Amazon. . . . At the heart of the lawsuit is the idea that the top publishers signed secret contracts with Amazon that allowed them to code their e-books in such a way that the books could only be read on an Amazon Kindle device or a device with a Kindle app. The booksellers are pushing for open-source coding that would allow readers to buy e-books from any source and download them on any device. . . ."

Lessons Learned from Sheryl Sandberg's New Book
U.S. News & World Report
In her highly anticipated forthcoming book, Lean In, Sandberg extends that message into nearly 200 pages, in which she tells about her climb to the top, in both Washington and the tech world. A few of the more interesting details she reveals: She's ...

U.S. News & World Report

A Titan's How-To on Breaking the Glass Ceiling
New York Times
A Titan's How-To on Breaking the Glass Ceiling. Before Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, started to write “Lean In,” her book-slash-manifesto on women in the workplace, she reread ...

Book News: Fan Fiction of Fan Fiction, Gendering Literature
New Yorker (blog)
Books & Bars, a twist on the conventional book club, is a nine-year-old program that combines books, booze, and comedy. A look at how three books—Joan Didion's “Play It As It Lays,” Suzanne Collins's “Hunger Games,” and Sylvia Plath's “The Bell Jar ...

New Yorker (blog)

A Branding Exercise for Your Business: Write a Book
Businessweek
It's easy to poke fun at the thousands of mediocre business books churned out annually. But planning a business book—regardless of whether it makes it to store shelves—is a useful exercise for business owners seeking to define their brand better and ...

Book Review: The Bankers' New Clothes
Businessweek
The authors frequently return to Kate's plight throughout the book. And they frequently mention two bankers in particular: Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, and Bob Diamond, the former CEO of Barclay's. The portrait does not flatter.

Book Buzz: New James Bond novel to be released in September
USA TODAY
Reviewed: USA TODAY's Craig Wilson reviews After Visiting Friends by Michael Hainey, a book in which the author searches for details surrounding his father's mysterious death. Mantel v. Middleton: Hilary Mantel, the Man Booker-winning author of Bring ...

Book News: New Bond, James Bond, Novel; Jane Austen's Love Lessons
NPR (blog)
Author and prominent anti-feminist Suzanne Venker on what Jane Austen teaches us about love: "When women make themselves so available to men, the thrill of the chase is gone. The harder you are to 'catch,' the more interesting you become." Whether or ...

NPR (blog)

James Bond novel by William Boyd out in September | Books | The Guardian: ". . . The title and plot of the new book remain under wraps, but the Fleming estate gave a hint of the style and the setting to woo fans who have been wowed by Daniel Craig's film portrayal of 007 in Skyfall. "We can reveal that this novel will see a return to the classic Bond era, featuring a 45-year-old 007 in 1969," the estate said. The novel will be published in Britain on 26 September by Jonathan Cape, Fleming's original publisher, and available from HarperCollins, a subsidiary of News Corp, in the US and Canada from early October. To keep the literary James Bond brand alive, his estate has invited various authors to continue the Bond story. The Bond catalogue is one of the most prized in publishing, with global sales of more than 100m copies.. . ."

Criticisms of a Classic Abound
New York Times
When the proposal for a book about the plight of the American housewife by a little-known journalist named Betty Friedan began circulating at the publishing house W. W. Norton in early 1959, not everyone was convinced that it was a world-changing ...

An Anthropologist's War Stories
New York Times
His new book, “Noble Savages,” has three themes. First, it is a beautifully written ...Second, it describes the author's gradual piecing together of how Yanomamö society actually works, a matter of great relevance to recent human evolution. Third, it ...

New York Times

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