Barnes & Noble Argues Book Settlement 'Punishes Consumers'

Barnes & Noble Argues Book Settlement 'Punishes Consumers'
New York Times (blog)
If approved, the settlement will result in higher overall prices on e-books and hardcover books, ultimately harming the American public, said the letter, which was submitted to the Justice Department on Thursday. “We think that the Department of ...

B&N: DOJ e-book suit endangers consumers, bookstores and ...
By Laura Hazard Owen
In a brief filed with the Department of Justice this morning, Barnes & Noble says the proposed e-book pricing settlement "represents an unprecedented effort" to become "a regulator of a nascent technology that it little understands. ... And “many millions of Americans, as well as all levels of the distribution chain for books (from authors to publishers to distributors, and especially brick-and-mortar stores), stand to be affected by this case's resolution.” .... Harry Potter e-books now on Blio.
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Book: Military feared use of terrorist's comments
Fox News
A new book says Justice Department prosecutors were stunned to learn three years ago that the US military had secretly tape-recorded incriminating comments that Mohammed made to fellow detainees during daily prison yard conversations but was not ...

Science fiction author Ray Bradbury dead at 91
Reuters
Bradbury brought not only futuristic vision but literary sensibilities to his more than 500 works published including "Fahrenheit 451," a classic dystopian novel about book censorship in a future society, and other favorites such as "The Illustrated ...

Blind Chinese activist seeking book deal
Fox News
NEW YORK – Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng is planning to write a book about his life and his quest for human rights in his native country. Chen had three goals, his spokesman Matt Dorf said Thursday: to spread his message for greater freedom in ...

Ray Bradbury, author of 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'Dandelion Wine,' remembered by fans
Washington Post
Ray Bradbury, one of the most recognizable and monumental science-fiction authors of all time, died Tuesday at the age of 91. He endeared himself with fans through his extensive work, which was full of imagination as well as dark but poignient social ...

Rosa Guy, 89, Author of Forthright Novels for Young People, Dies
New York Times
The themes to which she returned repeatedly in these books — and in several well-received novels for adults — included race, class, poverty, sexuality and simmering tensions between American blacks and Afro-Caribbean immigrants newly arrived in the...

New York Times

Vatican's term 'radical feminist' says more about cardinals than nuns they rebuke
Washington Post
The authors of these rebukes never define “feminism” or “radicalism.” In their hands, these words, which can carry legitimate intellectual meanings, appear to signify something like: “Yucky women who fail to heed our instructions and, anyway, ...

Book details Mel Gibson rants
CNN
The screenwriter's plea to the actor-director came during a CNN interview about the book "Heaven and Mel," which Eszterhas wrote about his turbulent relationship with Gibson. "This is a very human story much broader than Mel," although Gibson is center ...

Book review: 'Hotels, Hospitals and Jails' by Anthony Swofford
New York Daily News
This he makes very clear throughout the first two 200 pages of his new book, “Hotels, Hospitals and Jails.” And he doesn't get along with his father, who also was quite the ladies man back in his day but now can't leave his motorhome without an oxygen ...

New York Daily News

Sci-fi author Ray Bradbury dies
The Press Association
He wrote every day and appeared from time to time at book shops, public library fundraisers and other literary events around Los Angeles. "What I have always been is a hybrid author," Bradbury said in 2009. "I am completely in love with movies, ...

'Moonrise Kingdom': Wes Anderson's animated take on the film's imaginary books ...
Entertainment Weekly
Anderson commissioned six artists to create the books' evocative jacket covers, but initially the director wanted to take the artistry even further. “At one point in the process, when she's reading these passages from these books, I'd thought about ...

All mentions of the word 'Kindle' replaced with rival 'Nook' in eBooks - and ...
Daily Mail
But the latest edition is not bowing to cultural pressure, or the posthumous demands of an author, but by an apparent over-zealous use of the 'Find and Replace' function before an e-book went was re-released for a virtual print run.

Daily Mail

War and Peace E-book Readers Find a Surprise in Their Nooks
TIME
By Tim Newcomb | @tdnewcomb | June 7, 2012 | + E-books are often rife with spelling mistakes, formatting issues and photo problems. Now we can add another bizarre glitch to the list: Some e-books have been “Nookd.” Blogger Philip Howard was reading his ...

TIME

Ray Bradbury, 91, scifi author saw future, said 'Don't go there'
Boston Herald
Like Kurt Vonnegut, Bradbury was a literary geek who broke in with pulp magazines dedicated to science fiction stories and tales of the macabre. It was the kind of Buck Rogers and Conan the Barbarian stuff adolescent boys quietly obsessed over late ...

Romney Touts a Book, but Reads It Selectively
New York Times (blog)
SAN ANTONIO — Mitt Romney is not a candidate who often cites what he's been reading, but lately, he has referred to a book “by a guy named Noam Scheiber” to accuse the president of deliberately slowing the economic recovery to first push health reform.

New York Times (blog)

The American author praises 'dear friend' who died last month and is ...
The Guardian
Won in the past by Fuentes himself, Günter Grass, Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster – and last year by the Canadian singer and poet Leonard Cohen – the €50000 Asturias award is for an author "whose literary work represents a significant contribution to ...

The Guardian

War and Peace ebook readers find a surprise in its Nooks
The Guardian (blog)
From one small corner of the internet this week comes a tale of an ebook glitch so deliciously absurd I've had to keep reminding myself that it is, in fact, true. A few days ago a blogger who identifies himself as just "Philip" took to his site to ...

The Guardian (blog)

Nasty books
Baltimore Sun (blog)
By John E. McIntyre The Baltimore Sun Bit of a kerfuffle in the book division of the Land of Pleasant Living over the decision by the Harford County Public Library not to stock the popular novelFifty Shades of Grey. Today The Sun publishes a letter by ...

Book Value
Forbes
As the CEO of Smashwords, a 14-person company in Los Gatos, Calif., Coker gives authors free self-publishing software that converts Word documents into e-book files--and lets them set the price. Through distribution partnerships those e-books line the ...

Forbes

Censoring books isn't part of a librarian's job description
Baltimore Sun (blog)
County library director Mary Hastler has denied censoring the book. However, by the American Library Association's own definition, censorship is "the suppression of ideas and information that certain persons — individuals, groups or government ...

Book Talk: Fuller takes readers on unforgettable cocktail hour
Reuters
In her fourth book, Fuller returns to her roots with a work that is part memoir, part biography of her larger-than-life mother, Nicola. "Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness" takes readers on a whirlwind family tour that ranges from frigid ...

Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng seeks book deal, hopes to meet with ...
Washington Post
NEW YORK — Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng (chehn gwahng-chung) is planning to write abook about his life and his quest for human rights in his native country. Spokesman Matt Dorf said Thursday that Chen had three goals: to spread his message ...

Author Shares How She Learned About Life After Death in Her Book, IMMORTAL
Sacramento Bee
Her new book, IMMORTAL, will help others go through grief. This book highlights the author'sjourney after the death of her husband into knowing, without question, there is life after death. Having originally been a chemist, Diana was not religious and ...
Philadelphia in the Books – Whatever
By John Scalzi
In all it was a really wonderful way to start the book tour: Good people, good bookstore, good time. Dear rest of the tour: ... As I was checking out at the register last night, one of the clerks showed up with another case of books. She said they ...
Whatever

Self-publishing author seeks to crowdfund releasing a book to public ...
By Chris Meadows
On Techdirt, Mike Masnick calls attention to a Kickstarter project by self-publishing author Aaron Pogue, in which Pogue seeks to raise $30000 to release the third book in his self-published trilogy into the public domain. (He's already ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...

College Admissions Books for Your Summer Reading Pleasure ...
By By BEN MURRAY and ARIHA SETALVAD
Here is a small sampling of college admission books -- and there are many -- that might be useful to readers of The Choice this summer. ... Joseph A. Soares, a sociology professor at Wake Forest University, is a proponent of his school's relatively recent decision to go SAT-optional, and he explains why in his 2011 book “SAT Wars.” Mr. Soares argues that .... With its college superstarauthors and contributions by 50 college admission deans, why would anyone want any other book?
The Choice

Joan Rivers' New Book, 'I Hate Everyone... Starting With Me,' Spares ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Comedy's grand dame wrote best-selling memoirs long before publishers began dispensing celebritybook deals to anyone strolling a red carpet. Her new book is a series of humorous observations about people and circumstances that annoy ...
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We wrote a book! | The World
By FT
The FT has published its very first ebook [drum roll here], which means that even when you are lying on a beach in the middle of nowhere with nothing but a Kindle, Nook, iPad or other branded e-readerin your sandy hands, you can still tickle ...
The World

AOL.com Video - Joan Rivers on Why Costco Banned Her New Book
Description:Joan Rivers, host of E!'s "Fashion Police" and author of "I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me" came by to talk to the women of "The View." She said that her book had been recently banned from Costco because of some of the words ...

Northern Girls: interview with author Sheng Keyi | Danwei
By Allison Carroll Goldman
Qian Xiaohong is the protagonist of Northern Girls, a novel by Sheng Keyi (盛可以) published last week in English translation (the original Chinese book was titled Bei Mei 北妹). The novel draws on Sheng Keyi's personal experience: she too ...
Danwei

10 Best Decorative Arts History Books | Design*Sponge
By Amy Azzarito
An embarrassingly long time ago, someone left a comment on one of my Past & Present posts asking for my favorite Decorative Arts history books. I meant to come up with a list, but one thing led to another, and it got buried in the to-dos.
Design*Sponge

Blind Chinese activist seeking book deal - www's column on Newsvine
NEW YORK — Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng (chehn gwahng-chung) is planning to write abook about his life and his quest for human rights in his ...
www.newsvine.com/_.../12105338-blind-chinese-activist-seeki...

War and Peace E-Book Readers Find a Surprise in Their Nooks ...
E-books are often rife with spelling mistakes, formatting issues and photo problems. Now we can add another bizarre glitch to the list: Some e-books have been "Nookd. ... Barnes & Noble gimmick, but rather likely the work of a careless publisher. ... Nook E-Reader Alters Word it Doesn't Like in 'War and Peace' MSNBC ...
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