Rowling webcast will promote new Potter kids club

NEW YORK: Rowling webcast will promote new Potter kids club - Technology - MiamiHerald.com: "J.K. Rowling's next book is for adults, but she will be on hand this fall to help promote a new club for kids, the Harry Potter Reading Club.Scholastic Inc. announced Tuesday that Rowling will participate in a live webcast at noon, Oct. 11 from her hometown of Edinburgh, Scotland, taking live questions from her young fans for the first time since 2007, when the last Potter book came out. The discussion will take place on www.scholastic.com/hpreadingclub, the website for an online Potter club launched Tuesday by Scholastic"

How Jonah Lehrer was caught inventing Bob Dylan quotes
Christian Science Monitor
Jonah Lehrer resigned from The New Yorker after Tablet Magazine discovered Lehrer had fabricated quotes by Bob Dylan in Lehrer's latest book "Imagine: How Creativity Works." By Hillel ... Listings for the e-book edition of "Imagine" will be removed and shipments of the physical book have been stopped. "Imagine ... "Publishing books is fundamentally different from publishing a newspaper or magazine," Bruce Nichols, Houghton Mifflin's senior vice president and publisher of adult trade books, said in a statement.

Christian Science Monitor

Author Jonah Lehrer Admits Making Up Bob Dylan Quotes
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Getty Images: Jonah Lehrer. A leading book publisher said Monday it is halting the digital book sales of Jonah Lehrer's nonfiction book “Imagine: How Creativity Works” and has stopped shipping physical copies following the disclosure that the authorfabricated quotes from Bob Dylan. ... Lori Glazer, a spokeswoman for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a unit of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co., said via email that the digital books should be removed from all bookselling sites by the end of the day. She noted that the ...

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New Yorker Writer Quits After Faking Bob Dylan Quotes, WSJ Says
Bloomberg
U.S. author Jonah Lehrer resigned as a staff reporter at New Yorker magazine after saying he faked quotes from singer Bob Dylan in his latest nonfiction book, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a statement from Lehrer. Lehrer said he lied to journalist ... His book “Imagine: How Creativity Works” is being pulled from retailers Barnes & Noble Inc. (BKS) and Amazon.com Inc. after Dylan's management said it had no record of any contact with Lehrer, the Journal reported. Click here for web link. To contact the ...

Interview: Beth Kery, author of 'Because You Are Mine'
USA TODAY
It's been kind of a best seller. The best part about the Fifty Shades craze, though, is all the great buzz that romance novelists are getting for their books. One of those authors, Beth Kery, today kicks off a serialized erotic romance, Because You Are Mine, which ...

USA TODAY

Christian Fiction Undergoing a Resurgence via eReaders
Good E-Reader (blog)
Patchen Barrs, author of The Erotic Engine provided further insight on why erotica and Christian fiction are doing so well in today's digital climate. “Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James and religious ones like ... Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords, and Kobo deliver eBooks on a wider footprint then ever before. For the first time many customers in Canada, UK, Denmark, ... Michael Kozlowski is the Editor in Chief of Good e-Reader. He has been writing about electronic readers and technology for the last four years.

Penguin Sees Lackluster Revenue and Strong eBook Growth in 2012
Good E-Reader (blog)
... to their overall digital strategy. It seems to be paying off, mostly due to Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and Kobo's ability to market the books for them. ... He has been writing about electronic readers and technology for the last four years. His articles have been ...

'Circle of Friends' author Maeve Binchy dies
Entertainment Weekly (blog)
Bestselling Irish author Maeve Binchy, one of Ireland's most popular writers who sold more than 40 million books worldwide, has died in Dublin after a brief illness, Irish media and national leaders said. She was 72 years old. She was best known for her ...

Popular Irish author Maeve Binchy dies at 72
New York Daily News
An undated handout image provided by Christine Green Authors' Agent in London, Britain, on 31 July 2012 shows Irish novelist and playwright Maeve Binchy who passed away after a short illness at the age of 72 on 30 July 2012. ... LONDON — Bestselling Irish author Maeve Binchy, one of Ireland's most popular writers who sold more than 40 million books worldwide, has died in Dublin after a brief illness, Irish media and national leaders said. She was 72 years old. She was best known for her depictions of human...

New York Daily News

Maeve Binchy, popular Irish author, dies at 72 in Dublin; leaders mourn 'national ...
Washington Post
LONDON — Bestselling Irish author Maeve Binchy, one of Ireland's most popular writers who sold more than 40 million books worldwide, has died in Dublin after a brief illness, Irish media and national leaders said. She was 72 years old. She was best known for her ... “Tara Road,” about Irish and American women who switch homes without having met, was chosen by U.S. TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey for her popular book club, bringing her many new readers. She had announced in her column in 2000 that ...

Author Maeve Binchy, 72, dies after short illness
USA TODAY
AP reports that Binchy's former employer, The Irish Times, spoke to Binchy's family and said the acclaimed author had died in a Dublin hospital on Monday with her husband, Gordon Snell, by her side. "She was an outstanding novelist, short story writer and ...

USA TODAY

Irish Prime Minister leads tributes to 'trailblazing' author Maeve Binchy
The Independent
Bestselling author Maeve Binchy was today dubbed a “trailblazer” for a generation of female writers, as tributes poured in following her death last night. ... She said the books worked because the “you want to spend time with the characters. ... Authors lined up to pay tribute to Binchy including Cathy Kelly, who said the world was a “darker place” following Binchy's death. “We'll ... Binchy had planned to quit writing novels at the turn of the century, but following a popular outcry, she released anotherbook two years later.

Report: Irish author Maeve Binchy dies at 72
Boston.com
LONDON (AP) — Bestselling Irish author Maeve Binchy, one of Ireland's most popular writers who sold more than 40 million books worldwide, has died in Dublin after a brief illness, according to Irish media reports. ... ''Tara Road,'' about Irish and American women who switch homes without having met, was chosen by U.S. TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey for her popular book club, bringing her many new readers. ... After you register and pick a screen name, you can publish your comments everywhere on the site.

Maeve Binchy, Author of Circle of Friends, Dies at 72
People Magazine
Maeve Binchy, the popular Irish author who sold more than 40 million books worldwide and penned Circle of Friends, has died after a brief illness, reports BBC News. She was 72. During her illustrious career, Binchy wrote 16 novels, four collections of short ...

Suzy Gershman, 64; wrote 'Born to Shop' guidebook series
Boston.com
Ms. Gershman was the author of 16 ''Born to Shop'' guides, published over 26 years and compiled during hundreds of thousands of miles of worldwide wandering and, very often, back-street meandering. ... Ms. Gershman died of cancer last Wednesday in San Antonio at 64, said Sarah Lahey, who for the last eight years helped her research and write the books. ... ''The basic idea of thebook,'' Ms. Gershman once said, ''is that it should read like we were having lunch and I was telling you about my shopping day.'' ...

In 2010 book, Romney ascribed Israeli-Palestinian economic disparities to culture
Washington Post (blog)
But in his 2010 book, No Apology, Romney made almost precisely the same point about Israelis and Palestinians, even using the same language: “culture makes all the difference.” Romney's previous making of this point was caught by my Post colleague ...

How I Came to Love Maeve Binchy
Slate Magazine (blog)
Binchy is the author who, for me, bridged the gap between childhood reading and adult,” Alison Flood wrote on the Guardian's Book Blog today, and that is true for me as well. I was 11 when I first read Circle of Friends, a melodramatic tale of two best friends in ...

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Best-selling Irish author Maeve Binchy dies
msnbc.com
Maeve Binchy, one of Ireland's most beloved writers, has died in Dublin after a short illness at the age of 72, Irish media reported on Tuesday. Binchy was revered for such novels as "Light a Penny Candle," "Tara Road," and "Circle of Friends," which was ...

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Jonah Lehrer Resigns From The New Yorker After Making Up Dylan Quotes for ...
New York Times (blog)
All contributed to the rise of Jonah Lehrer, the 31-year-old author, speaker and staff writer for The New Yorker, who then executed one of the most bewildering recent journalistic frauds, one that on Monday cost him his prestigious post at the magazine and his ...

New York Times (blog)

Maeve Binchy is remembered by Ireland's leaders, fellow writers
Christian Science Monitor
Binchy, who published her first book, “Light a Penny Candle,” in 1982, wrote most often about life in small towns in her native country. She was born in Dalkey and County Dublin and worked as a teacher and journalist before becoming an author, working as a ...

Christian Science Monitor

Irish writer Maeve Binchy dies at 72
Newsday
Her husband, children's book author Gordon Snell, was by her side. Binchy's 16 novels, four short-story collections and other books have sold more than 40 million copies in 37 languages, said Ireland's public-television network, RTÉ. In 2000, she was ranked third in a UK World Book Day poll of favorite authors. A decade later, she received a lifetime achievement award from the Irish Book Awards. Maeve Binchy was born in Dalkey, County Dublin, on May 28, 1940, the eldest of four children. She attended the Holy ...

Newsday

Author Maeve Binchy dies aged 72
BBC News
She wrote books that read as fluidly as a conversation with and old friend who had lots of news”. End Quote Author Marian Keyes. Keyes tribute in full. Fellow novelist Jilly Cooper paid tribute, saying Binchy was "a natural storyteller". "She was a darling - I'm very, ... Other authors have paid tribute on Twitter, with Ian Rankin tweeting: "Maeve Binchy was a gregarious, larger than life, ebullient recorder of human foibles and wonderment." ... She said she was glad she persevered and sent the book to a sixthpublisher.

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'Born to Shop' author Suzy Gershman dead at 64
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
suzy-gershman-born-to-shop-series-dead-dies. Author Suzy Gershman died July 25 in San Antonio after being diagnosed about a year ago with brain cancer. DALLAS — Suzy Gershman, whose "Born to Shop" travel guides have helped readers find where to...

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'Born to Shop' author Suzy Gershman dies at 64
Washington Times
Gershman died July 25 in San Antonio after being diagnosed about a year ago with brain cancer, said her son, Aaron Gershman, and her co-author, Sarah Lahey. Since its launch in the mid-1980s, “Born to Shop” series has been translated into a half-dozen languages and sold more than 4 million copies worldwide, Lahey said. Sixteen of thebooks have been published, and some were revised every other year. Frommer's acquired ... Her book “C'est la Vie,” detailed her first year of widowhood. After about a decade ...

Washington Times

Best-Selling Author Lehrer Admits Fabricating Dylan Quotes for Book
Wall Street Journal
The book's publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, provided a statement from Mr. Lehrer in which the author acknowledged having lied to journalist Michael Moynihan after Mr. Moynihan questioned the authenticity of some of Mr. Dylan's quotes as they appeared in "Imagine." "Three weeks ago, I ... A spokeswoman for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a unit of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co., said the digital books should be removed from all bookselling sites by the end of the day Monday. She said the publishing ...

Wall Street Journal

Irish author Maeve Binchy dead at 72
UPI.com
DUBLIN, Ireland, July 31 (UPI) -- Irish writer Maeve Binchy has died in a Dublin hospital after a short illness, her representatives said. She was 72. Binchy was a journalist who also penned 16 novels. "The Lilac Bus" and "Echoes" were made into TV movies, ...

Maeve Binchy, bestselling Irish author, dies
Vancouver Sun
She sold more than 40 million books worldwide. Her novels and short stories often examined the friction between tradition and modernity in Ireland. Her works have been translated into 37 languages. Born in the Dublin suburb of Dalkey in 1940, she began ...

Ireland mourns the loss of a true storyteller – Maeve Binchy passes away after ...
IrishCentral
Bestselling author Maeve Binchy passes away after short illness, beloved by her fans. Author of “Light a Penny Candle” and “Circle of Friends” ... The Irish novelist Maeve Binchy, most widely known for her books “A Circle of Friends” and “Tara Road”, has passed away in Dublin following a short illness. Binchy passed away in a Dublin hospital with her ... She also appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1999 and “Tara Road” was featured on Oprah Book Club. Although she had announced her retirement in 2000 ...

Beloved Irish author Maeve Binchy passes away at 72
TheCelebrityCafe.com
Binchy was a well-known Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, columnist and speaker, famous for her novels such as Tara Road, an Oprah's Book Club selection that was later turned into a movie featuring Andie MacDowell and Olivia Williams.

Author Acknowledges Fake Dylan Quotes, Resigns
Pollstar
Listings for the e-book edition of “Imagine” will be removed and shipments of the physical book have been stopped. “Imagine,” published in March, has sold more than 200000 copies, according to Houghton Mifflin. It has spent 16 weeks on The New York ...

Mitt Romney's 2 Favorite Books That Explain America—and the World
The Atlantic
In a small town west of Des Moines, I heard him speak at an "Ask Mitt Anything" town hall and point to America's culture as the reason for its success, citing Jared Diamond's 1997 book Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies and David Landes' ...

Maeve Binchy dies aged 72 in Dublin; beloved Irish author and NYT, Oprah ...
GlobalPost
Maeve Binchy awaits the next person in line as she signs copies of her book "Scarlet Feather" at Borders Books and Music March 16, 2001 in Chicago. (Tim Boyle/AFP/Getty Images). What do you think? Maeve Binchy, the Irish author who made The New York ...

Suzy Gershman | 'Born to Shop' author, 64
Philadelphia Inquirer
Suzy Gershman, 64, the author of 16 Born to Shop guides, published over 26 years and compiled during hundreds of thousands of miles of worldwide wandering and backstreet meandering, has died. Mrs. Gershman died of cancer last Wednesday in San ...

Successful Irish Author Maeve Binchy Dies at 72, Telegraph Says
Bloomberg
Binchy, who sold more than 40 million books, published her last novel and received a lifetime achievement award from the Irish Book Awards in 2010, the newspaper said. Her books, which often had a humorous take on small-town life in Ireland, included ...

11 Free Online Books for Web Designers | Freebies
By Gisele Muller
Book Of Speed. No one likes to wait and we all hate slow pages. These are obvious, easily observable facts that don't need any proof. This book gives you practical industry examples and studies which expose the effects of performance on the bottom line. If you're not ... Best of Smashing Magazine. The eBook contains the best articles that have been published on Smashing Magazine in the last five years — and by “best,” we mean the most useful, most interesting or most inspiring.
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New York Review Books Announces NYRB Lit: An high-end e-book ...
By Dan Eldridge
But when long-established and staunchly literary publishing houses begin announcing e-book-only ventures of their own … well, that's news. And it doesn't get much more tweed-jacket literary than New York Review Books (NYRB), the ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
Film Threat - Doomsday Book
By Mariko McDonald
Anthology films are making a comeback, especially in the domain of genre cinema. The results of these types of collaborations are predictably hit and miss, but Korean masters Yim Pil-sung (Hansel & Gretel) and Kim Jee-woon (A Tale of Two ...
Film Threat

Peter Yarrow Sings, Signs Books In Sewickley « CBS Pittsburgh
By angelakdka
Peter Yarrow Sings, Signs Books In Sewickley. July 30, 2012 9:19 PM. Share this. View Comments. More Activity. Facebook Activity. What's this? Add to Timeline - What's This. Click "Log in" topublish what you read to Facebook. See what your friends have read on CBS Local sites. Use "Remove" or "Turn off" to ... be said of Peter Yarrow's children's books. The co-author of “Puff, the Magic Dragon,” 50 years ago, went on to sell more than a million copies of those lyrics in a picturebook.
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Help Support [ours] A Book On Hyper-Localization of Sustainable ...
By Inhabitat
EVolo and the Institute for the Built Environment have teamed up with Inhabitat architecture writer Andrew Michler to produce a book on the hyper-localization of sustainable architecture in the 21st century. [ours] is based on the idea that the ...
INHABITAT

Another Blago Book! | NBC Chicago
By Edward McClelland
The Sun-Times' Natasha Korecki enters the Blago Book sweepstakes with "Only in Chicago," due out as an e-book Sept. 1. ... Both books are being issued by regional publishers, suggesting they're aimed mainly at Illinois readers. We'll see ...
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Add A 'Buy This Book' Widget To Your Website - GalleyCat
By Dianna Dilworth
Looking to add a “Buy this book” widget to your website? Ted Weinstein Literary Management has built a widget that can help you do so quickly and easily. AppNewser has more: “The button will feature a number of retailers that sell the book, ...
GalleyCat

'Imagine' Author Jonah Lehrer Resigns New Yorker, Admits Lying ...
'Imagine' Author Jonah Lehrer Resigns From New Yorker, Admits Lying ... what is most important is that the integrity of what we publish and what we stand for. ... options available" with the book while all e-books were taken off-sale and shipments of physical copies halted. ... Jonah Lehrer publisherpulls bestseller " Imag …
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'Imagine' author Jonah Lehrer resigns over fake Dylan quotes - MSN ...
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt said it will pull Lehrer's book. ... "We are taking the e-book of 'Imagine' off-sale, and halting shipment of physical copies." ...
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Overdrive Launches Its New Developer Portal
Good E-Reader (blog)
It announced a few months ago that it was creating a series of developer tools that would allow people to create their own apps, using Overdrive's functionality. In essence, it would allow schools, libraries, and other institutions to create their own version of ...



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