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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsFar-ranging, illuminating study of minds gone awry across space and time. Scull (Sociology and Science Studies/Univ. of California, San Diego; Madness: A Very Short Introduction , 2011, etc.), a specialist in the history of science...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from BookMarketingBuzzBlogA recent story in The New York Time s offered a chilling front-page headline: “Scientists Seek Ban on Method Of Editing the Human Genome.” At issue: Preserving humanity, natural selection, and leaving science out of our bodies.&nbs...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Book Portal Site
Awkward grammar appals a craftsman. A Dada bard as daft as Tzara damns stagnant art and scrawls an alpha (a slapdash arc and a backward zag) that mars all stanzas and jams all ballads (what a scandal). A madcap vandal crafts a small blac... -
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsDiary of a passionate quest. In 1974, when he was 32, acclaimed film director, writer, and producer Herzog ( Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo, 2010, etc.) set out on foot from Munich to Paris with the ...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015 from Children's Book Council
To enter the giveaway, follow us @CBCBook and tweet this image with #CCBA15. Meet this year’s CCBA finalists and remember to vote online for your favorites at ccbookawards.com! About the Children’s Choice Book Awards (CCBA) T... -
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from The Asian Review of Books Feedreviewed by Jill Baker. Preparation for the Next Lifeis a stunning, hard-edged, deeply felt debut. Lish takes us to places most of us will never see: the mean streets of Queens, inside the American prison system and even into the mind of...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Book Portal Site
Humourist and magazine editor Robert Wringham is known for his sardonic observations about a variety of topics. A Loose Egg is a collection of some of his funniest essays and blog posts. A Loose Egg is shortlisted for the 2015... -
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Book Portal SiteThe willows are thinking again about thickness, slowness, lizard skin on hot rock, and day by day this imaging transforms them into what we see: dragons in leaf, draped scales alongside the river of harried, spring-stirred silt. The magp...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedSo now we know the title of the fourth Millennium novel. And we've seen the dust-jacket (a variation on the tattooed torso that featured on the previous three).MacLehose Press revealed both titbits ceremoniously – the novel, they told us...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from BOOK RIOT
I just finished rereading Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak. I read it when I was 16 and wanted to revisit it now, at 30, to see how I felt about it now. Among the other things I picked up from the reread … Continued You just fin... -
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Book Portal SitePast Canada Reads-winning author Terry Fallis and Little Mosque on the Prairie creator Zarqa Nawaz are among the contenders for this year's Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from BookMarketingBuzzBlogOver 5,200 stamps have been issued by the US Post Office and some 150 were of authors or books. That’s a lot more than stamps about soccer (10), marine life (6), the Holocaust (5), photography (3), inventors (36), or insects (49), ...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedThe appeal of Alfred Hitchcock to Peter Ackroyd is not hard to imagine, coming hot on the heels of his life of Charlie Chaplin and with the whole sweep of his historical understanding of London to draw on.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedOddly, I have never read Irvine Welsh, though I did see Danny Boyle's film of his comico-prurient first novel Trainspotting, about smack addicts glamorously adrift in mid-1980s Edinburgh. This, Welsh's tenth, A Decent Ride, is more of th...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from The New York Review of BooksJames Kornell To the Editors : Thank you for Steve Coll’s thoughtful review of James Risen’s book Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War . Underremarked in these discussions is that the overwhelming bulk of classification is needless.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsIn this debut collection, nine stories shed light on Old Testament women famous, infamous and obscure. “God said one thing. The snake said another. Which is how I learned that someone had to be lying,” Eve remarks in the title...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedIn the title story of Salley Vickers' new collection, The Boy Who Could See Death, the novelist tells the tale of Eli, who is seven years old when he predicts the death of his friend Tommy, who falls out of his treehouse and breaks his n...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from BOOK RIOT
April always feels like a month full of promise. The weather is finally starting to turn a corner away from winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and everything begins feeling green and fresh again. While you’re enjoying the start of ... -
Thursday, April 2, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedFew images are perhaps more frightening than the one that is about to stare Judge Dredd comic readers in the face.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from The New York Review of BooksDr. Ismail Salami, reply by Stephen Greenblatt To the Editors : I am sorry to see an article by my colleague Professor Stephen Greenblatt in your journal titled “Shakespeare in Tehran” whose content is a departure from the views he expre...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsAn authoritative examination of unspeakable horrors. A century after the elimination of millions of Armenians from the Ottoman Empire, Suny (History/Univ. of Michigan; The Structure of Soviet History: Essays and Documents , 2013, e...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from BOOK RIOT
April showers bring awesome translations…that’s how the expression goes, right? RIGHT. This month, keep an eye out for the following works from Italy, France, Korea, and Switzerland. And thanks to your input on my ongoing ... -
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Book Portal Site
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Book Portal SiteSometimes shocking in its candour, yet charmed with enigmatic characters, Pedal explores how we are shaped by accidents of timing--trauma and sex, brain chemistry and the landscape of our country--and challenges beliefs we hold dear abou...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Book Portal SiteRoy Miki's first poetry collection is an arresting, cleanly conceived series of meditations on the ties of family and place witnessed from his own place as a third-generation Japanese-Canadian. These exquisitely balanced poems trace the ...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from The New York Review of BooksHugh Eakin To the Editors : Several Norwegian readers have commented on a confusing reference to recent hate speech legislation in my article “Norway: The Two Faces of Extremism.” To clarify, Norwegian law has long drawn a distinction be...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from The New York Review of BooksCharles Simic One of the compensations of being an insomniac in a snowbound house full of books is that I can always find something to read and distract myself from whatever mood I’m in. As a snooze-inducer, nothing comes close to poetry...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsThe “first full-length biography” of Abraham Lincoln’s assassin offers much nuance and complexity to the killer, bordering on the downright sympathetic. Reams have been written about John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865), who was shot in the ens...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Book Portal SiteNights lit up with a timer. Our programmable nests evolving new synonyms. Spring is a thermostat, a due date, a flutter. Some products are just simple sums, but there is a harder green: multiplication that fails to ripen. For now, well-b...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedPeter Ackroyd is London's most devoted acolyte – the cartographer of her unseen tracks, the auditor of her secret harmonies, the cardiologist of what Wordsworth called her mighty heart. He has devoted his prodigious writing career to cel...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Children's Book Council
Though tall and awkward, Andersen originally dreamed of becoming an actor. He moved to Copenhagen in hopes of performing at the Royal Theater. The directors were less than impressed and paid for young Andersen to go to school. After grad... -
Thursday, April 2, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedIn the title story of Salley Vickers' new collection, The Boy Who Could See Death, the novelist tells the tale of Eli, who is seven years old when he predicts the death of his friend Tommy, who falls out of his treehouse and breaks his n...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedWhere are you now and what can you see?
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedIn 'poetry notebook 2006-2014', Clive James is at odds with Ezra Pound on much, but at one on a fundamental contention: they both talk "about poetry as if it were the most exciting thing in the world".
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsA daughter’s journey to claim her identity. Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Smith (Creative Writing/Princeton Univ.; Life on Mars , 2011, etc.) grew up in Fairfield, California, a solidly middle-class suburb, with four older siblings a...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Book Portal Site"We kids play football in the empty lot where he once played, wrestling the ball-carrier into the dirt with sloppy tackles, braying like asses when our side scores a touchdown, wishing at once we had the will to be quiet, our eyes dartin...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015 from BOOK RIOT
Welcome to Reading Lives, an interview podcast with interesting people who love books. My guest this week is Debbie Reese. Debbie is tribally enrolled at Nambe Pueblo, a federally recognized tribe in New Mexico. She has a Phd in educatio... -
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsFirst-rate study of the often overlooked closing months of the Civil War, which, though the impending end was visible, saw some of the fiercest fighting of the conflict. So desperate was Confederate resistance, writes former Associated P...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsA reverend’s sermons at a Methodist church in Georgia find supporters and a small but potentially dangerous resistance in Frosolono’s ( Thoroughly Biased Opinions , 2012, etc.) religious drama. The Rev. Eric Jameson’s assignment at Alder...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from The New York Review of BooksDiane Ravitch To the Editors : I read the exchange between Joel Klein and Jonathan Zimmerman concerning me. I want to set the record straight.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedPassports at the ready for a criminal tour of the globe? Under the Channel to France, and we can start with one of the most extraordinary Gallic crime talents in decades, but a writer (be warned!) who is not for the squeamish. Camille (M...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from BOOK RIOT
Today’s Deal The Shining by Stephen King for $1.99. Get it here (or click cover below) Recent Book Riot Deals that are still valid: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien for $2.99 Ms. Marvel Volume I by G. Willow … Conti... -
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Book Portal Site
We wanted to imagine what it would be like if the brooding advertising maverick gave us his trademark insight - on some classic children's books. -
Thursday, April 2, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedA warning: you should never ask crime fiction reviewers what you should be reading. They will freeze like rabbits in a car headlight and suffer instant brain freeze. I have one name that is my default response whenever I'm pinned down in...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from The New York Review of BooksDiane Ravitch Fifty years ago, Congress passed a federal education law to help poor children get a good public education. As the House and the Senate now debate a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 19...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Children's Book CouncilBurbank, CA/New York, NY – “Fancy Nancy,” the New York Times bestselling book series by Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser, has been optioned by Disney Junior for development of an original animated TV movie and ser...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsA collection of parental wishes for a child. It starts out simply enough: two children run pell-mell across an open field, one holding a high-flying kite with the line “I wish you more ups than downs.” But on subsequent pages, some of th...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from BOOK RIOT
Move past grammar and spelling into reading comprehension! Do you have an advanced placement student’s knowledge of the English language? Take this quiz to see if you can pass AP English. ____________________ In 2014, reven... -
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsIllustrations done in a style indigenous to West Bengal test the universality of Collodi’s classic puppet-to-boy tale. In the text, which is Della Chiesa’s 1925 translation abridged to about half its length, proper names—Mastro Antonio, ...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from BOOK RIOT
Hollywood loves to mine the book world for stories, new and old, that can be re-imagined and brought to the big and little screen. If you like to read the book first, here are a list of books to either … Continued You just finished... -
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from GalleyCatThe University of Georgia Press plans to launch a new literary nonfiction series called Crux . John Griswold will serve as the editor for this project. The editorial team plans to publish two to four titles for this series every year. T...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksStephen R Covey’s runaway bestseller from 1989 is online retailer AbeBooks’s bestseller of the last 15 years As well as making sure to “Be Proactive” and “Begin with the End in Mind”, Highly Effective People may also have something of an...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from GalleyCatEvery single staff member at the United States division of Penguin Random House has received a small bonus of $750 this year. According to The Wall Street Journal , the executives decided to issue this money “because their publishi...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from NYT > BooksThe British chef’s vastly influential first cookbook is reissued 25 years later.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from bookforum.com
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited Books'The Winner's Curse is a one of a kind, BRILLIANT book, perfect for fans of the entire Dystopian Genre!' Continue reading...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comBy Writer's Relief staff: The plot to your story is tight and clever, your setting is realistic and complete, but (uh-oh!) your characters are flat and lifeless. Nothing kills a great story faster than one-dimensional characters. Your wr...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comI recently watched a video of a panel discussion from the Backspace Writers Conference video archives in which Kristin Nelson of Nelson Literary Agency, Scott Hoffman of Folio Literary Management, Suzie Townsend (then of Fineprint Litera...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Publishing PerspectivesFrance's Syndicat National de l’Edition (SNE) has launched a social media campaign to encourage readers to support the fight for a lower VAT on ebooks. The post #ThatIsNotABook: How to Campaign to Lower European Ebook VAT appeared first ...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comAndrea Lochen is the author of The Repeat Year (Berkley, 2013) and Imaginary Things (Astor + Blue Editions, 2015). She attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison for her Bachelor's degree in English and the University of Michigan in...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from The Digital Reader
I'm pretty sure this story is a joke, but ... The Bookseller and The Telegraph reported this morning that the UK bookstore chain Foyles has developed a new electronic bookmark which is designed to help protect late night readers from get... - The hero's journey beckons to an established author.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from The Digital Reader
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When Sony launched its 13.3" digital writing slate in the US last March, it cost a staggering $1,100. The price has come down a bit since then, and today you can pick up the Digital Paper DPT-S1 for a mere $799. Unlike your average eread... -
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from GalleyCatThe National Book Foundation has revealed that judges for this year’s awards and has also opened up the application process. The judging panels for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry and Young People’s Literature brings together a combina...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.com"Public service" is not something that usually comes to mind when Machiavelli's name comes up. The thinker who established the notion that "the end" (the preservation of political power) justifies "the means" (a ruler, Machiavelli says, ...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Publishing PerspectivesPublishing Perspectives and Publishing Technology co-publish a white paper based on Publishing Technology's research on "How Millennials Consume Content" and findings from experts in media, marketing, and technology on how to reach this ...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
As the new spring season is upon us, plenty of new and wonderful animes will soon be airing on Crunchyrolls simulcast! Two new anime’s from the Fruit of Grisaia franchise as well as the 2nd season for the popular I can’t Unde... -
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from International Business TimesNational Poetry Month is upon us. The celebration of American poets and their works runs for 30 days, which is enough time for teachers, students, bloggers and authors alike to try multiple literary activities. The whole month of April, ...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from USATODAY - Books Top Stories
'The Stranger' lands at No. 1 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Books and Author InterviewsYou don't have to be a wunderkid to write an impressive debut novel
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from GalleyCatThe Clean Reader app , may let parents censor the bad words out of their children’s books, but now Payhip has invented the Dirty Reader app : an app that lets you add even more swear words to a book. “Dirty Reader surfaces s...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Books: Book Reviews, News, Stores, Events & More - The Washington PostOn its cover, “Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange” is described as “the first English translation of a medieval Arab fantasy collection.” First discovered in 1933 in Istanbul, in a unique manuscript, it is now presented in E...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from NYT > BooksThe author’s third book to feature members of the Coughlin family is suspenseful, devious, well-constructed and as filled with ethical questions as it is with gangsters.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsSo the battle over book pricing may have started a bit earlier this spring. Last year it wasn’t in full swing until May. This year is starting with April, assuming the Business Insider article yesterday wasn’t an April Fool&#...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Digital Book World
The Five Stops on Your Customer’s Journey In the course of planning and developing a direct-to-consumer (D2C) strategy, it can be easy to lose sight of how the technical components fit into the broader strategic picture. So let’s zoom ou... -
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from NYT > BooksThree books attempt to understand the Islamic State.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Publishing TechnologyOver the last two years the concept of a ‘Netflix’ or ‘Spotify’ for books has grown from being an embryonic…
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from The Digital Reader
Scholarly Kitchen posted an article yesterday which explains why Amazon is so much better at marketing and selling than the book publishing industry. Joseph Esposito uses the post to lay out his vision for a new type of bookstore - one w... -
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksThe Corrections author accepts its urgency but confesses to ‘caring more about birds in the present than people in the future’ Continue reading...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksArchitect of a fairer society or deluded usurper? This account of the Labour leader gives both sides of a man who could still be king Ed Miliband is the first opposition leader in British history to have come to the job knowing the date ...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsI have just read a fantastic book that I think should be required reading in all journalism—indeed, in all high school media—courses. I devoured by Jon Ronson in about two days, and have so many thoughts swirling in my head ...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from International Business TimesCynthia Lennon, the first wife of John Lennon, died in Spain on Wednesday. The author was 75 and had cancer. “Cynthia Lennon passed away today at her home in Mallorca, Spain, following a short but brave battle with cancer,” a message on ...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from The Digital Reader
Lenovo may have backtracked from using a dangerously unsafe ad injector to make a few extra dollars off of its customers, but they weren't the only bad actor out there. Google reported on Tuesday that it was stepping up its efforts to cr... -
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from The Digital Reader
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Few telecoms succeeded in running their own ebookstore, and there is still doubt about subscription ebooks, but Algérie Télécom is one to take chances. This company has just launched its second ebookstore. NooonBooks.dz carries only Arab... -
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
In 2007 a paltry 3,073 audiobook titles were produced and this figure rose exponentially to over 12,000 published in 2011. In 2013 many industry experts proclaimed that over 20,000 audiobooks were now available and in 2014 over 35,000 we... -
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Kobo CafeThere may be nothing nicer than getting lost in the throes of a great novel, but lately we’ve noticed a pretty equal number of non-fiction books sneaking into our library. In fact, we’re falling a little in love with, well, facts. The gr...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from bookforum.comAlan Rusbridger will leave his position as the editor in chief of the Guardian this summer, but before he goes, he plans to run an “unprecedented,” six-month series of articles about climate change. Working with the environmental activis...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from NYT > BooksTwo new books on the Islamic State provide a fine-grained look at the organization’s history and metastasis, and how to fight it.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from USATODAY - Books Top Stories
New HEA contributor Rachel Blaufeld shares some revealing conversations (in bed) and some romance recs.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from bookforum.comWant to make games and pet lambs on a remote farm in Iceland?
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksIt’s not all saving the world and getting into love triangles… Teens are taking to twitter to argue that young adult heroes should be more worried about finishing their homework! Let’s face it, Young Adult literature has never been espec...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
HarperCollins is one of the largest publishers in the world and they might soon be pulling all of their e-books and print titles from Amazon. The contract between these two companies is set to expire soon and HC is refusing to sign the n... -
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksToday’s crime novels are overtly critical of the status quo, while the thriller explores the danger of the world turned upside down. And with trust in politicians nonexistent, writers are being listened to as rarely before I spent the we...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Book Publishing on Huffington Post
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Ereader News Today
Cozy up with your Ereader and download another selection of 3 bargain books and 2 free books. You can read Kindle books wherever you are and on any device with the Free Kindle App – you don’t even have to own a Kindle to use ... -
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Just as ebook distributors competed for readers by offering the best in content, pricing, devices, and compatibility, digital magazine providers are also upping the ante when it comes to vying for consumer loyalty. That’s why one o... -
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Publishing PerspectivesBusiness Insider, reports that the contract between Amazon and HarperCollins is close to expiring, and HC is balking at Amazon's current offer. The post Is a Battle Between Amazon and HarperCollins Looming? appeared first on Publishing P...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsBy Julie Ellis Are you planning your next Kindle download? Are you looking for new books to add to your wish list on Good Reads? If you prefer to read a book before it is made into a movie, now is a good time to adjust your reading list....
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.com"I have to go channel my inner Stella," Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival President Janet Daley Duval says in passing. In an hour she'll be leaning off a balcony of the Pontalba Apartments over Jackson Square as contestant...
