Friday's Top 100 Book, eReading & Publishing News & Stories
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Our friends at Book Riot have another fun booklist up today—Susie Rodarme writes about the 12 books she knows she’s never going to read. From the article: “Obviously, if I don’t think I’m going to like a book, I won’t p...
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Heather O’Neill’s first novel, Lullabies for Little Criminals, famously won Canada Reads in 2007, making it an international bestseller
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s Marina, J.A. White’s The Thickety, Rebecca Hahn’s A Creature of Moonlight
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An unconventional family is at the centre of Mating for Life, Marissa Stapley’s debut novel
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Krista Foss’s debut novel is a look at the complex entertwining of white and native cultures in Ontario’s tobacco country
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There’s only a mere glimpse at the personal rupture that makes Mark Sakamoto’s Forgiveness: A Gift From My Grandparents a memoir, before the book sinks into a historical account of the Second World War
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This summer, John Semley asks the tough questions of our nation: Are we Canadians really a funny people? And, if so, how did we get that way?
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One hundred years ago, the world entered into a conflict whose consequences would be wide-ranging and indelible. It was an awakening and a disillusionment that would change the Western canon, birthing some of the last century’s finest wr...
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Techdirt has an interesting piece about how the EU’s ‘Right to be Forgotten’ law—a law which requires search engine owners to remove articles at the request of people mentioned in them. The law is intended to help...
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Self-Published authors often flock to Facebook and Twitter to promote their books and try and get a few sales. A few months ago Amazon and Twitter came together to form an ecommerce solution called Amazon Cart. This allowed indie authors...
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Today, we honor and remember Nelson Mandela, on his birthday — also being recognized internationally as Nelson Mandela Day. Nelson Mandela Day is meant to encourage people to ”take responsibility for making the world a better...
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Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Sales data shows that 2013 wa...
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July 18, 2014: Today’s BONUS Free Friday is DC ENTERTAINMENT GRAPHIC NOVEL ESSENTIALS — an expansive look at DCE’s rich backlist collection created by the best writers and illustrators in the industry. Overview DC Entertainment has...
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As you no doubt saw in the Morning Links, Kindle Unlimited is now live. It’s pretty much what we were expecting when it was leaked on Wednesday. Right now, it’s mostly Amazon imprints and KDP Select books, with a few others l...
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Murdoch’s Bid for Time Warner, Fonts in Digital Media, USA Today’s Social Media Tuesdays, The BBC’s Digital Transformation, DPS Tip: A New Sidecar.xml File Format, TFP’s Infographic Pick of the Week, July’s ...
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Digital book subscription service Safari was founded 13 years ago; it is a joint venture between O’Reilly Media and the Pearson Technology Group. It now has over 150 employees offering more than 27,000 books and videos. Customers pay a m...
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Amazon has officially launched its Kindle Unlimited e-book subscription service in the US today (...
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If you watched the live Hangout with Ellen Britt, MaAnna Stephenson and me, you heard some outstanding news about the opportunity for podcasters in the coming months… …The iTunes app is going to be pre-installed on all new i-...
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How I Became a Knausgaard Truther (Pacific Standard) Did companies in Norway institute Knausgaard-free days in response to the popularity of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s autobiographical novel My Struggle? It’s a question that led to a search f...
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Amazon has officially launched Kindle Unlimited, an ebook subscription service that directly competes with start-ups Scribd and Oyster. The service will cost users $9.99 a month and give them access to over 600,000 ebooks and audiobooks....
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The titles driving revenue growth in the first quarter of 2014, the scoop on Amazon's new Kindle Unlimited service, rising demand for audiobooks licensing, Apple's payout through investors' eyes, Aquafadas upgrades and more.
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Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited, the ebook and audiobook subscription service that lets members pay a flat monthly fee for unlimited access to its catalog, went live today, offering users a thirty day free trial and the option to pay $9....
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Amazon’s new Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service is now live in the United States, with more countries getting access to the service soon. Customers can sign up for a free thirty-day trial to get unlimited access to Amazon&...
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Most people don’t think of copyright law when they think of gripping drama and suspenseful twists and turns, but the truth is copyright is actually quite fascinating. Of course, no one is more fascinated right now than the litigant...
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HarperCollins has signed world rights for the literary work of Eric Rücker Eddison, often...
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Katherine Armstrong, newly-appointed associate crime editor at Faber, has signed UK and...
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Safe, fun promo items make the summer all the more enjoyable.
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Publishers and booksellers have backed the first ever trade-wide acknowledgement of Super...
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Today we look at a number of apps that currently work on the Blackberry Playbook that we either uploaded for the first time or recently updated. All of these apps are confirmed working on the Playbook and we have over 2,400 apps and game...
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Hugh Howey and Data Guy have done it again, producing another interesting report on a sample of data scraped from Amazon. The July report re-runs the numbers for their main chart based on the new data, then branches out into a couple of ...
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Los Angeles might often be dismissed by the bookish as a 'Hollywood Town' but it is home to numerous small presses and a vibrant literary community.
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New Los Angeles publisher Unnamed Press is on a mission to carve a niche for new, international authors who may not fit into the traditional mold.
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It's unbelievable to realise that the sweet little pup Kipper is 25 years old. To celebrate his quarter century, Kipper's owner Mick Inkpen shows us how to draw this delightful dog! Continue reading...
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Ahron Bregman's account of nearly five decades of Israeli colonialism is hard-hitting and rich in telling details Continue reading...
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When we asked if you wrote in your books , responses went from a heartfelt 'never!' to straightforward admissions of writing 'in ink'. Some of you hymned the dialogue on the page between writer and reader but only 'neatly in pencil' whil...
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Fifteen early stories by Elmore Leonard have been acquired by the British publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson, to appear in the fall of 2015. HarperCollins will publish the American edition. Pinterest is “untapped” as a driver of traffic, Bu...
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It wasn't long ago that Joan Rivers' career seemed to be -- as she might have put it, ever so delicately -- in the toilet. Now wildly popular, Rivers added books to her ever-expanding comedy empire, scoring a best-seller with "I Hate Eve...
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In Rainbow Rowell's new book, "Landline," Georgie McCool tries to save her marriage by calling the 1998 version of her husband on an old rotary phone.
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Read an except from Marja Mills' book, "The Mockingbird Next Door," in which she becomes the next-door neighbor of Harpler and Alice Lee in Monroeville, Ala.
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The Fire Phone was the first ever smartphone Amazon developed and acts as your personal gateway to unbridled internet shopping. Sure Amazon did an exclusive launch in Seattle to unveil it, but the average customer wants to know more abou...
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Your reading list this Friday morning includes an early history of Voyager’s Expanded Books, a debate over whether e-reading threatens learning in the humanities, onion-infused paper, how Amazon isn’t the one killing publishi...
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FREE FRIDAY BOOK July 18, 2014: Today’s Free Fridays book selection is THE REGISTRY — a story that introduces an alternate America, where girls are raised to be brides, boys raised to be soldiers and freedom is the ultimate crime. ...
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July 18, 2014: Today’s NOOK Daily Find offer is A KILLING IN THE HILLS – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julia Keller’s debut novel about a small town murder mystery – for just $2.99. Overview In A Killing in the Hil...
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The revolutionary Black Liberation Army of the 1970s rose out of the ashes of the Black Panther Party to free black people in the United States, this time through armed struggle. The peaceful civil rights movement of the sixties had elim...
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Symbols: the gloves we use to pat horror. I want to know when it is that we’re first able to grasp symbols. Not when we first try to decipher them, many of us don’t even get around to that – but when they begin to appear as substitutes f...
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’20 minutes is pretty standard for a daily reading assignment for elementary school students around the US. Check out this great graphic displaying the cumulative effect of reading 20 minutes a day during the school year. Add 1,00...
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Everyone who enjoys reading, and even those who do not, have a favourite literary character.
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What do Babe Ruth, Greyhound, and World War I have in common? They each debuted a century ago. Most things don’t get discussed a hundred years after they’ve been launched and they just die out with the generation they grew up with. But B...
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‘You’re probably the most hated man in America right now. Did you kill your wife?” – the question put to a despondent-looking Ben Affleck at the beginning of the second trailer for David Fincher’s Gone Girl .
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Lady Gaga ’s former assistant is reported to have signed a $1 million book deal that looks set to spill the beans on the singer’s bizarre lifestyle.
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NEW YORK, NY – Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children’s publishing, education and media company, today announced the appointment of Lee Peters as Senior Vice President, Strategic Marketing for Scholastic Education.Based in New Yo...
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NEW YORK, NY — The National Coalition Against Censorship (USA) has been joined by freeDimensional and PEN International in issuing a statement ( read online ) opposing the decision of the Singapore National Library Board to remove and pu...
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“Since the ambassador program launched in 2009, family visitation has grown by 26.5 percent. NYC & Company says that’s about 30.8 percent of the total number of city visitors.” (Yahoo.com)
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The Asian Review of Books is now available in a book-format edition from leading booksellers worldwide.
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William T. Vollmann's 2005 novel Europe Central was a masterpiece. His latest work, a collection of ghost stories entitled "Last Stories and Other Stories" is flabby and cliched.
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“The barbershop is based on men coming together grooming each other to become better men, and I think books and education is a fundamental part of that,” says Reggie Ross, the owner of Royal Touch Barbershop In Palm Beach C...
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Robert Pogue Harrison Silicon Valley does not change the world as much as it changes my way of being in it, or better, of not being in it. It changes the way I think, the way I emote, and the way I interact with others. It corrodes the w...
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Whether you’re staying at home this summer or traveling around to different parts of America, the easiest way to discover what makes this country tick, in ways both maddening and beautiful, is to read some books. To aid you on this...
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I don’t know about you, but I love reading a book by an unknown. Sure, it’s great to dive into a book penned by a favorite author, but you can’t help but approach it with a pile of expectations. Will it be as good as their last? Will it...
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Created late last year, this infographic from our friends up north visualizes some of the benefits of leading a reading life. Good stuff.
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Judging by the … Read More
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Tangled Bundle: Tangled Past\Texas Tangle by Leah Braemel. $ .99 From the Jacket Copy: Texas Tangle (Tangled Series, Book One) Thanks to her cheating ex-husband, all Nikki Kimball has left is a bruised heart, an over-drawn bank account a...
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We're back with another cover breakdown! The hero on the cover of Alexandra Ivy 's upcoming Sentinels novel Blood Assassin made us do a double-take, and he's got an equally striking woman by his side. Clearly, this calls for a cover brea...
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As July starts winding down - can you believe we’re already halfway through the month?! - I can’t help but think about all the drool-worthy books releasing in August. Today I’m sharing my picks for next month, which is a nice mix of cont...
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You wouldn’t find Tiphanie Yanique’s sublime novel Land of Love and Drowning in the historical fiction section of your local bookstore, but it does transport you to the island of St. Thomas at the turn of the century, just as...
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Headed to Ontario's capital city this summer? Here are 10 bookish places you should visit!
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Ginalee Brownson will recite My Country - about life on the frontline - at a special service in Durham Cathedral during a weekend of commemorative events in the city.. Link!
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Poetry News: Andrew Drake reads a poem at Big Fatty's Restaurant during Po' Boys and Poets, a monthly spoken word poetry event that features readings as well as live music and is open to the community.Link!
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Between the years 1961, when the first plane ever was seized in US airspace, and 1972, the year Roger Holder, an emotionally-ravaged Vietnam deserter, and his loved-up partner in crime Cathy Kerkow seized control of Western Airlines Flig...
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‘I had an offer a few days after landing from a gold digger, with £600-700. Since that I have had another from a bushman with £900,’ So wrote a young British serving girl, just arrived in the gold fields of Victoria in the 1850s. She mea...
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Today on Amazon’s Gold Box, get select Timex Weekender watches are priced at just $19.99. Today’s Kindle Daily Deal is The Flamekeepers ($1.99 Kindle; $0.99 companion audiobook), by J. Gregory Smith [Thomas & Mercer]. Th...
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Next week, a literary salon will discuss the rise of the domestic thriller. Lucie Whitehouse, the novelist and one of three speakers at Bloomsbury’s event, has already called the genre by its other – not altogether uncontentious – name. ...
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Dear Ms. Jayne, I’m fond of YA thrillers. I think it’s because I grew up on Lois Duncan and Christopher Pike. In fact, I still think of the earlier Christopher Pike books with nostalgia (Remember Me!) even though I’m no...
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By the time you read this, I will either be at or be very near to Detcon1, this year’s NASFiC (an acronym which, if you already know what it means, suggests you are exactly the sort of geek who will be at the convention already). O...
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I know I’m not alone in admitting I have an ebook hoarding problem. The allure of 99-cent novels and accumulating books that don’t take up physical space (I live in NYC, space isn’t cheap) is something I just can’t resist. And I’ve becom...
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The Kindle Deals of the Day for those in the UK: The Winchester Goose: at the Court of Henry VIII (£0.99 UK; $4.50 US) by Judith Arnopp [indie] – Historical Fiction Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks ...
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That's the whole point of the album the two artists made together this year pairing poetry written by Amaker with Baxter's jazz and production know-how. "My goal in writing those poems was for it to really be this sort ...Link!
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Shamaa hoon, phool hoon, ya ret pe qadmon ka nishaan/Aap ko haq hai mujhe jo bhi ji chahe keh le is a couplet that uncannily ...Link!
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Reviewing his first (non-fiction) book Who Was That Man? back in 1988, Edmund White remarked that, "Neil Bartlett has grabbed history by the collar and made bitter love to it." It's been a tendency of his ever since.
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Symbols: the gloves we use to pat horror. I want to know when it is that we're first able to grasp symbols. Not when we first try to decipher them, many of us don't even get around to that – but when they begin to appear as substitutes f...
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Performance poet John Cooper Clarke made a welcome return to the region last night as he rounded off this year’s Mouth of the Tyne Festival with a near sell-out gig at Playhouse Whitley Bay.. Link!
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Poetry News: East meets West in a shadow world where forbidden love and poetry collide. A Chance Shadow is a poetic play inspired by the Chinese poet Xu Zhimo and the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca who changed society with their pass...
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The efforts by a group of local people to have the famous Yeats' Tower (Thoor Ballylee), near Gort, south Galway, reopened is to be welcomed and supported.. Link!
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Poetry News: Carl Sandburg's poetry impressed me when I was a student at Johnson County High School.Link!
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In Fort Lee, New Jersey, there used to be a shop called The Book Cave. It was run by two women, one of whom was maybe in her twenties and the other in her thirties, but I can hardly be sure of that because, in my time as a customer at Th...
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James Broughton, along with Maya Deren and Stan Brakhage, is one of the premiere names in experimental film, as the genre came to be called.. Link!
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The poetry slam final was held at the Warwick Bridge Theatre and hosted by the former Poet Laureate for Birmingham, Spoz. Teams from St ...Link!
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Poetry News: Wine and poetry have long enjoyed a happy relationship, the one often fuelling the other.Link!
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The internet retail giant is expected to launch a Netflix-style ebook and audiobook subscription service dubbed Kindle Unlimited.
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Robert Stone comes lauded with praise by his contemporary Philip Roth who compares him to the French Nobel Laureate François Mauriac. That's quite some introduction. Whether readers of Stone's eighth novel agree might well depend on thei...
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While his wife Maria weaves intricate tapestries whose design feels like "dropping into an abyss", Joe manages the Rose Clothing Company in a Western nation known as "Country A".
