Weekend picks for book lovers

Weekend picks for book lovers
USA TODAY
USA TODAY's picks for book lovers include a memoir by Jacqueline Kennedy's Secret Service agent, and two kids' baseball books just in time for the new season. By Clint Hill with Lisa McCubbin; Gallery, $26; non-fiction It's been like Camelot all over ...

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Book reviews: 'Free Will,' 'Religion for Atheists'
Los Angeles Times
The necessity of self-improvement and social betterment is thoughtfully explored in Sam Harris' and Alain de Botton's books. Book covers (Free Press / Simon & Schuster Inc. (left), PantheonBooks / April 5, 2012) By Richard Rayner, Special to the Los ...

Books: New and noteworthy
USA TODAY
Unholy Night by Seth Grahame-Smith (Grand Central, $24.99, fiction, on sale April 10) What it's about: The author of the best-selling mash-ups Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter turns his sardonic eye to the tale of the ...

USA TODAY

New, Pew report shows e-book reading is a rising, cultural trend
Examiner.com
Do you read e-books? If so, you are among the one-fifth of Americans, who have read an e-bookin the past year. According to a newly released, April, 2012, report by the Pew Research Center's ongoing Internet and American Life Project, 21% of American ...

"How to Self-Publish an e-Book for Sale on Amazon" Topic of Recent ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Find out how to self-publish an e-book on Amazon in Digital Marketer's Special Report highlighting the advantages of partnering with the e-commerce giant. Austin, TX (PRWEB) April 07, 2012 An article about Digital Marketer's latest Special Report will ...

'Three Cups of Tea' author Greg Mortenson will remain with Central Asia ...
TheCelebrityCafe.com
Greg Mortenson, the mountaineer, philanthropist and author of the best-selling Three Cups of Tea, has reached a settlement with Montana's attorney general, who was investigating his charity, the Central Asia Institute. Mortensen will stay with the CAI ...

Report: 'Three Cups' author mismanaged funds
La Crosse Tribune
Mortenson benefited financially at the expense of the CAI, including free promotion of “Three Cups of Tea” and a second book, “Stones Into Schools,” and pocketed royalties off books the charity bought and donated to schools, libraries and churches, ...

3 Picture Books for Bug Lovers
Wired News
The Beetle Book presents a host of interesting facts about beetles with fantastic cut-paper illustrations. Keep reading for a closer look at each of these books! If you want your kids to know who Charles Darwin was, you could pull up his Wikipedia ...

Wired News

Eeee-yow! Digital books surging
Chicago Tribune (blog)
29% of Americans age 18 and older own at least one specialized device for e-book reading – either a tablet or an e-book reader. The average reader of e-books says she has read 24 books(the mean number) in the past 12 months, compared with an average ...

The Danger in Quashing Apple's Anticompetitive Publishing Deal
The Mac Observer
Doing so will clear the way for Amazon to dump books below price, taking ever more share (and power) in the book industry—that is the greater anticompetitive threat in my never humble opinion. The issue is that the DOJ is concerned that Apple and five ...

The Mac Observer

Hilarious: Design is Serious, Tie-Wearing Business, Just Ask Book Coverist ...
Forbes
Kidd is the acknowledged master of contemporary book cover design. If you've ever judged abook by its cover you've probably seen his work. In his 25 years at Alfred A. Knopf and as a freelancer he has designed perhaps 2000 covers, including Michael ...

Producer/author David J. Rosen crafts a coming-of-age tale for our generation
Boston.com (blog)
The show adapts many of its incredulous stories from the book of the same title, which Rosen wrote. Both entities hone in on the main character of Jason, who's struggling with the lack of progress in his life, both personally and professionally.

New Reports Chart the Rise of E-books
Publishers Weekly
In the US, Gallagher pointed out, the e-book market took off in just a few short months—from October 2010 to January 2011—when e-books shot from 5% of the market to 13%, as the market in the UK was just getting started. “In the UK market, ...

Book review: 'Pakistan on the Brink' by Ahmed Rashid
Washington Post
He literally wrote the book on the Taliban and now has added a superb work on the future of Pakistan, a country many people deem the world's most dangerous.“Pakistan on the Brink” depicts a nation with a severe socioeconomic crisis, and with political ...

Rohan: 'Fifty Shades of Grey' a publishing phenomenon, but is the steamy novel ...
NorthJersey.com
According to that deal, its author, an unknown 40-something British wife and mother writing under the pseudonym EL James, gets something that far more famous authors rarely get: approvals over script and casting. E-book bestseller “Fifty Shades of ...

NorthJersey.com

E-book reading said on the rise
UPI.com
WASHINGTON, April 6 (UPI) -- Increasing ownership of tablet computers and e-book readers is matched by increases in the percentage of adults reading e-books, a US poll found. In a February survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, ...

Book Review Podcast: America and the Balance of Global Power
New York Times (blog)
By JOHN WILLIAMS In the New York Times Book Review, Jonathan Freedland considers new books by Robert Kagan, who served in Ronald Reagan's State Department, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was a national security adviser to Jimmy Carter, about America's ...

New York Times (blog)

Everything you need to know about getting into digital comic books
VentureBeat
I no longer even use the custom comic book boxes, nor do I protect them in shiny plastic with cardboard backings. I do, however, enjoy reading comics, which is why I've never been able to give them up. So, the thought of getting my comic books ...

Posthumous novel from 'Moonflower' author shows fine craftsmanship
STLtoday.com
Jetta Carleton was a native Missouri author and editor who died in 1999, years after publishing what most thought was her only book, the highly praised and beautifully crafted "The Moonflower Vine." Recently, a friend of Carleton's was found to have ...

Project HOPE To Launch Innovative Book To Reverse Stigma Against Haitians With ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Global NGO Project HOPE is launching a new innovative book in Haiti that addresses the stigma and discrimination afflicting thousands of disabled Haitians every day and calls for greater tolerance of amputees on World Health Day 2012.

Apple Not Eager to Settle in E-Book Case
NBC Bay Area (blog)
By Barbara E. Hernandez After allegations that Apple and traditional publishers colluded to raisee-book prices, Apple and two global publishers aren't eager to settle the case with antitrust authorities. Three of the five largest publishers in the ...

Books dive deep into Titanic lore
Vancouver Sun
How else to explain, in the spate of books marking the centenary of its destruction April 14-15, 1912, that we have not one but two biographies of John (Jock) Law Hume? Hume was not among the Titanic's fabulously rich passengers in first class, ...

Ervolino: 'Fifty Shades of Grey' a publishing phenomenon, but is the steamy ...
NorthJersey.com
Kenny Sarfin with several copies of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' on display at Books & Greetings in Northvale. That's Ms. James, incidentally. And her "Grey" novels (released originally as e-books) are helping to shape a new genre dubbed "mommy porn," which ...

NorthJersey.com

Caplin & Drysdale Advises Three Cups of Tea Author on Settlement With Montana AG
The American Lawyer
The latter book details Mortenson's transition from adventurer to humanitarian and his efforts to build schools and promote literacy as a way of helping the children of those hard-pressed regions. But a scathing broadcast a year ago this month by 60 ...

'The One and Only Ivan' among new novels for kids
The Seattle Times
It's an unusual literary device, and it's also a gutsy move, since some readers absolutely refuse to read books with talking animals. Yet, Applegate is such a skillful writer that even readers who avoid animal fantasies should give this book a chance.

The Capital Spectator: Book Bits | 4.7.2012
By jp
Book Bits | 4.7.2012. ● White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters to You By Simon Johnson and James Kwak Blog post by co-author (Johnson) via Economix (NY Times) Debt has surged, relative to ... Summary via publisher, Wiley When the United States stopped backing dollars with gold in 1968, the nature of money changed. All previous constraints on money and credit creation were removed and a new economic paradigm took shape.
The Capital Spectator

Contextual Pricing: a book review
By Mark P. McDonald
He is the co-author of The Social Organization with Anthony Bradley. Read Full Bio Coverage ...Rob Doctors, John G. Hanson, Cecilia Nguyen and Michael Barzelay have collaborated to create a highly informative, accessible and book that provides actionable advice and examples. They have ... The authors point out the importance of pricing when they discuss the observation that less than half of customer defections are price driven, yet when customers threaten to leave. They also ...
Mark McDonald

¡Hola, eLibros! Amazon Launches Spanish-Language Kindle eBook ...
By Adriana Lee
“eBooks Kindle en Español” will offer a range of titles, from native Spanish-speaking authors to children's books, plus translations of bestsellers, like The Hunger Games and Steve Jobs' biography. Indie writers can also publish their works in ...
TechnoBuffalo

April Books: Stephen King's Dark Tower, Neal Stephenson's Weird ...
By Charlie Jane Anders
The book world has some treats in store for you this month — including a brand new novel in Stephen King's Dark Tower universe, and the first book of Neal Stephenson and Greg Bear's Mongoliad. John Shirley revises and updates his groundbreaking cyberpunk trilogy. There are more ... The Outlook: Evenson is the author of literary tomes like 2009's acclaimed Fugue State and Altmann's Tongue. But he's also the author of some Dead Space and Alien tie-in books. That could mean ...
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Freelance Writer Tips & Ernest Hemingway Book Trailer: Top Stories ...
By Jason Boog
For your weekend reading pleasure, here are our top stories of the week, including John Grisham's $6 million mistake, freelance writer tips from a New York Times magazine editor and a 50-year-old Ernest Hemingway book trailer (embedded ...
GalleyCat

Instapundit » Blog Archive » JAMES TARANTO: Women write dirty ...
By Glenn Reynolds
JAMES TARANTO: Women write dirty books for other women to read. Bill Bennett blames men. How does an essay ... Dowd notes, but Bennett omits, that the real first name of author E.L. James is Erika. As for “Girls,” Bruni points out that Lena ...
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Books that Most Changed my Leadership « Leadership Freak
By Dan Rockwell
Books that Most Changed my Leadership. Leadership Freaks who contribute to the Leadership Freak Coffee Shop on Facebook answered, “The leadership book that most changed my leadership is ______. Who Moved My Cheese by ...
Leadership Freak

Santorum's wife authored children's book on good manners, with ...
By Xeni Jardin
And to add further humor: This same book contains an endorsement of the Santorums from Bono of U2, and includes a foreword on "decent manners with children" by Joe Paterno. Look inside "Karen Santorum's Dirty Book on Manners" at ...
Boing Boing

S. Krishna's Books: Book Review: The Riesling Retribution - Ellen ...
By Swapna
Book Review: The Riesling Retribution - Ellen Crosby. Title: The Riesling Retribution Author: Ellen Crosby ISBN: 9781439137642. Pages: 352. Release Date: July 27, 2010. Publisher: Pocket Books Genre: Mystery Source: Personal Copy Rating : 4 out of 5. Summary: When Lucie's Gator ... I also host the South Asian Review Database and run the South Asian Challenge, which promote the authors and literature of the region. I do accept books for review, but please take a look at my ...
S. Krishna's Books

Diva gets her hands on 'Fifty Shades of Grey': S&M, romance and sex -- oh my!
Plain Dealer (blog)
1 New York Times best seller thanks to all those Kindles and Nooks stuffed into the bags of the thoroughly modern female, "Fifty Shades of Grey" is the first book in a trilogy from 40-something British author EL James. (In the grand tradition of erotic ...

Plain Dealer (blog)

What Google Image Search Thinks About Famous Authors - Flavorwire
Inspired, we took to the Internet, trying out the experiment with the names of our own favorite celebrities — who are, ahem, mostly dead authors. As you might ...
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