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Making a Word Meme - Lean In

2013-05-23T00:00:00.000+12:00

Making a Word Meme - NYTimes.com: " . . . The phrase had a life before Ms. Sandberg used it. It was frequently invoked in sports (lean in to the slope, lean in to the wave) and evolved into a metaphor for embracing risk, said Ben Zimmer, executive producer of the Visual Thesaurus and Vocabulary.com, and language columnist for The Boston Globe. In a 2010 TED talk, Ms. Sandberg lamented that women

Apple Fights Back in Antitrust Case Over E-Book Prices

2013-05-21T00:00:00.000+12:00

Apple Fights Back in Antitrust Case Over E-Book Prices New York Times Unlike the five publishers, all of which have settled the case, filed in April 2012, Apple is aggressively disputing the government's assertions that Apple and the publishers wanted to force Amazon, which controlled 90 percent of the e-book market ... Books: New and noteworthy - USA TodayUSA TODAYWe scope out the hottest books

Author Lisa Scottoline

2013-05-18T00:00:00.000+12:00

Author Lisa Scottoline talks grief, crabs, podiatry Baltimore Sun She's got more than 30 million copies in print of her books, including 20 best-selling novels. She writes a weekly column, with her daughter, for The Philadelphia Inquirer. She's a graduate of Harvard ... But ask her about any connections she might ... Baltimore Sun Ditch sexist pink book covers as they are putting boys off '

Free e-book excerpts from Sue Grafton, Amy Tan

2013-05-16T00:00:00.000+12:00

Free e-book excerpts from Sue Grafton, Amy Tan Wall Street Journal NEW YORK — Upcoming novels by Sue Grafton, Elizabeth Gilbert and Wally Lamb are among 40 fall and winter releases excerpted in a free e-book. "Buzz Books 2013: Fall/Winter" also previews fiction from Amy Tan and actor James Franco and such ... Dan Brown's Inferno set for blockbusting sales The Guardian Brown, who has 190m copies

Candace Bushnell a Victim of "Premature Publication"

2013-05-14T00:00:00.000+12:00

Candace Bushnell Hacked! Parts of Sex and the City Author's New Novel Leaked to the Web | E! Online: "Candace Bushnell is suffering from an unfortunate case of premature publication. A hacker going by the (apt) pseudonym of Guccifer apparently broke into the email account, Twitter feed and website of the Sex and the City author and subsequently posted online the opening sections of her next novel

Who will save our books, our libraries, our bookstores?

2013-05-11T00:00:00.000+12:00

James Patterson ad Author James Patterson campaigns to save books | Tampa Bay Times: " . . . Patterson asked, "Who will save our books? Our bookstores? Our libraries?". . . According to Publishers Weekly, sales of print books fell 9 percent in 2012. The Association of American Publishers reported that in 2012 e-books accounted for 22.5 percent of the industry's

Author Guide to Publishing

2013-05-09T00:00:00.000+12:00

An Author's Guide to PublishingHuffington PostAfter publishing 17 books traditionally -- from Knopf to Penguin to W.W. Norton -- I decided to explore what my New York literary agent, Sarah Jane Freymann, calls "the great experiment" of indie publication. Even for a ... You may be delighted to have ...UK Publishers Hit Book Sales Record for 2012 Amid Digital GrowthHollywood ReporterDigital formats

Daniel Dennett, Author of ‘Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking’

2013-05-07T00:00:00.000+12:00

The philosopher Daniel Dennett talks about his 16th book, “Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking” -- Daniel Dennett, Author of ‘Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking’ - NYTimes.com: " . . . Sailing was still an apt illustration of the kind of empirically minded problem-solving that Mr. Dennett has long preferred to the abstractions of more traditional philosophy, to the great

Women's prize for fiction

2013-05-04T00:00:00.000+12:00

Women's prize for fiction reveals 'staggeringly strong' shortlist The Guardian Mantel is the only novelist to win the Man Booker and Costa book prizes in the same year for Bring Up the Bodies, the second in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy. Completing the shortlist for ... Each of the six books were stories of significance and ... The Guardian New Bond book sends the spy to Africa New Zealand Herald

Banned Books 2013

2013-05-02T00:00:00.000+12:00

Banned Books 2013: 'Captain Underpants', 'Fifty Shades' Make List Of Most ...Huffington PostNEW YORK -- Here's a list "Fifty Shades of Grey" was destined to make: The books most likely to be removed from school and library shelves. On Monday, E L James' multimillion selling erotic trilogy placed No. 4 on the American Library Association's ...Simon & Schuster announces pilot e-book program with

Who will save our books?

2013-04-30T00:00:00.001+12:00

Author James Patterson campaigns to save booksTampabay.comIn a full-page ad in last Sunday's New York Times Book Review, in this week's Kirkus Reviews and on the four glossy pages of the front and back covers of the current issue of Publishers Weekly, Patterson asked, "Who will save our books? Our bookstores ...Tampabay.com F. Scott Fitzgerald's handwritten ledger onlineBoston HeraldResearchers

Book of Interviews With Future Pope out April 30

2013-04-27T00:00:00.000+12:00

Book of Interviews With Future Pope out April 30ABC NewsThe book, an international best seller published in Spanish in 2010, includes the Argentine's thoughts on everything from his childhood to civil unions to the military dictatorship of the 1970s and '80s in his native country. The interviews were ...Veronica Roth 'Divergent' video reveal: Book 3 is ... - USA TodayUSA TODAY'Divergent' author

Boston-based authors reflect on the bombing

2013-04-25T00:00:00.000+12:00

Book Buzz: Boston-based authors reflect on the bombings - USA Today USA TODAY Also, read a first-hand reflection from author Holly LeCraw, who was standing at mile 19 watching the Boston Marathon when the explosion happened. Plus, in a frightening case of life imitating art, The Huffington Post ... Penguin to change e-books strategy to end EU competition probe AFP The other major US, French and

LA Times Festival of Books

2013-04-23T00:00:00.000+12:00

LA Times Festival of Books goes beyond words Los Angeles Times Charles McKay makes a detailed spreadsheet of the authors he wants to hear during the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, typing in his first and second choices and getting tickets ahead of time. Jerry Oborn, from San ... McKay and Oborn were among ... Silly and scary moments with the man who is not Lemony Snicket Los Angeles Times

"Try everything" - the world is changing

2013-04-20T00:00:00.001+12:00

London Book Fair 2013: In Keynote, Gaiman Says 'Try Everything': " . . .bestselling author and Twitter superstar Neil Gaiman kicked off the London Book Fair by likening the digital transition to being on an unruly, but exciting new frontier. "People ask me what my predictions are for publishing and how digital is changing things and I tell them my only real prediction is that is it's all changing

The Slow Death of Authors

2013-04-18T00:00:00.000+12:00

The new, global electronic marketplace is rapidly depleting authors’ income streams-- The Slow Death of the American Author - NYTimes.com: "Last October, I visited Moscow and met with a group of authors who described the sad fate of writing as a livelihood in Russia. There is only a handful of publishers left, while e-publishing is savaged by instantaneous piracy that goes almost completely

Can Barnes & Noble Save Itself?

2013-04-16T00:00:00.000+12:00

Can Barnes & Noble Save the Book? | MIT Technology Review: "As a bibliophile and dead-tree holdout, I’m principally interested in the fate of Nook insofar as it’s a bellwether for the fate of Barnes & Noble as a whole. I want browsing, physical browsing of physical books, to persist in its brick-mortar-stores. I want authors to have places to read on their book tours, which are themselves also

Lean In or Are You Getting Played?

2013-04-13T00:00:00.000+12:00

The question the rest of us have to ask is, what does the game do for those not at or near the top? Are workers playing or are we getting played? (source infra) Feminism’s Tipping Point: Who Wins from Leaning in? | Dissent Magazine: " . . . .The fact that Lean In is really waging a battle for work and against unmonetized life is the reason pregnancy, or the state of reproducing life, looms as

‘The Tropical Cottage - At Home in Coconut Grove’ by Beth Dunlop

2013-04-11T00:00:00.000+12:00

In her new book, Beth Dunlop, editor in chief of Modern Magazine, features 33 eclectic residences in the Miami neighborhood-- ‘The Tropical Cottage - At Home in Coconut Grove’ by Beth Dunlop - NYTimes.com: "Home-design books are often homages to a particular style, era or corner of the world, and with that homogeneity a dreaded sameness can set in. Which is why “The Tropical Cottage: At Home in

Amazon bestseller made author "nothing"

2013-04-09T00:00:00.000+12:00

My Amazon bestseller made me nothing - Salon.com: " . . . I just started getting my royalty checks from July the other day (the publishing industry is slow like that). From what I can tell so far, I made about $12,000 from “Broken Piano” sales. That comes directly to me without all those pesky taxes taken out yet (the IRS is helpful like that). Don’t get me wrong; as a guy with a couple of books

Amazon Web Names Grab - book, author, read

2013-04-06T00:00:00.000+12:00

Amazon's Quest for Web Names Draws Foes - WSJ.com: " . . . Two publishing industry groups, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, are objecting to the online retailer's request for ownership of new top-level domain names that are part of a long-awaited expansion of the Web's addressing scheme. They argue that giving Amazon control over such addresses—which include ".book,"

Kate Moss reads 50 Shades of Grey (video)

2013-04-04T00:00:00.000+12:00

Listen to Kate Moss read '50 Shades of Grey' for Comic Relief - Fashion Videos - Telegraph: "The supermodel took part in the radio station's bid to raise £200,000 for Comic Relief by encouraging listeners of her friend Nick Grimshaw's Breakfast Show to donate £200,000 to hear her read an extract from Fifty Shades of Grey." more book news below Follow @jmichaelpoole

Elizabeth Strout Interview

2013-04-02T00:00:00.000+12:00

Elizabeth Strout: By the Book New York Times I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend. I go through phases. For a while I was rereading the Russians quite a bit ... Jillian Michaels dishes on her new book, guilty food pleasures Fox News Still, fans and contestants

Amazon buys book-focused social network Goodreads

2013-04-01T00:00:00.000+12:00

Amazon to buy book-focused social network GoodreadsLos Angeles TimesAmazon.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 TimesGroup sends female inmates booksChicago TribuneI love the books.

Global Finance Grudge Match

2013-03-30T01:00:00.000+12:00

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 FinanceNew York TimesThe 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