The Ten Best Political Books of 2012

The Ten Best Political Books of 2012
New Yorker (blog)
A wonderful history of moderate Republicanism. The chapter on George Romney alone is worth the price of the book. Biggest flaw: The author's contention that moderate Republicanism represents a coherent ideology rather than an approach to politics is ...

New Yorker (blog)

Amazon wins an e-book fight in Europe - CSMonitor.com
Christian Science Monitor
According to settlement terms, retailers can cut e-book prices and offer discounts for a period of two years. And the publishers must suspend “most favored nation” contracts for five years. These contracts effectively barred publishers from selling e ...

Christian Science Monitor

Book Review Podcast: Old Hollywood - NYTimes.com
New York Times (blog)
This week in The New York Times Book Review, Molly Haskell reviews two newbooks about old Hollywood: “The Noir Forties: The American People From Victory to Cold War,” by Richard Lingeman, and “The Entertainer,” in which Margaret Talbot writes...

New York Times (blog)

Tablet's Dominating Ebook Readers
Forbes
English: A woman cuddling a pile of digital devices: laptops, smartphones, tablets,ebook readers etc. (Photo credit: Wikipedia). Multi-use tablet sales are dominating single-use ebook readers. IHS estimates that ebook sales will decrease 36% this year ...

Forbes

The New York Review of Books versus Salman Rushdie - latimes.com
Los Angeles Times
For lovers of good literary controversy, Salman Rushdie is the gift that keeps on giving. A few months after the publication of Rushdie's memoir “Joseph Anton,” the New York Review of Books (where they specialize in this sort of thing) published a ...

Ristretto | Books for the Coffee Lover - NYTimes.com
New York Times (blog)
They are two very different books. “The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee” is a thoughtful introduction to this moment in coffee — it's for the everyday drinker who's curious about what goes into that cup. And “Coffee Life in Japan” is a study of the ...

Books 2012: David L. Ulin
Los Angeles Times
The best of these — by Steve Erickson, Hari Kunzru, Lydia Millet, Zadie Smith, Chris Ware — I've cited in my favorite books list because they give me faith in the power of the novel to explain, for a moment anyway, the ongoing tussle of daily life ...

Programmer creates 800000 books algorithmically, starts selling them on Amazon
ExtremeTech
There's a good reason for that mental image: that's how the majority of books are written. That's not the way it has to be, though. Philip M. Parker, a marketing professor at INSEAD, has a patented system for algorithmically compiling data into book ...
 
ExtremeTech

European commission and Apple reach settlement over ebook price fixing
The Guardian
Readers should prepare for plunging ebook prices after the European Commission yesterday accepted commitments from Apple and four major publishers to stop restricting the sale of cheap ebooks. The commission has been investigating the publishers ...

The Guardian

Gene Wolfe wins grand master award for science fiction and fantasy
The Guardian
Gene Wolfe, author of The Book of the New Sun and, according to Neil Gaiman, "one of our finest living writers", has been named a grand master of science fiction and fantasy. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) announced Wolfe as ...

The Guardian

Are Your Kids' Books Killing Tigers? | Mother Jones
By Zaineb Mohammed
Before you pat yourself on the back for not buying some plastic crap destined for the dump, consider this: The book you bought might actually be destroying the rainforest. On Wednesday, the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) announced that in ...
Blogs | Mother Jones

Why Your Kindle Is an Open Book to the Government | Mother Jones
By Adam Serwer
As a result of similar incidents that occurred over the years, 48 states now have laws on the booksprotecting library records, and the other two have legal directives in place that uphold similar standards. ... Last year, civil liberties groups including the ACLU and EFF, along with Google and other e-book providers, successfully persuaded California legislators to pass a law that forces state authorities to seek a warrant, along with proof that less intrusive methods have been exhausted, ...
MoJo Articles | Mother Jones

American Hero Books voted “Best Book” by Military Writers Society ...
By bniegel
Photo: American Hero Books, written by Alia Reese, is a series of books. For centuries wars have been fought and ... a way to learn more about the world of books. It was not a goal to self-publish, but the realization that it was the best way to get her book out that motivated her to send the bookfor review, said Reese. ... After having the opportunity to meet other nominees and award winners, Reese said she feels more like a creator than an author. “I'm a Marine spouse, I have a master's ...
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