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on Friday, November 11, 2011
Notes on Design: Lord of the Flies
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This year marks the centennial of William Golding?s birth, and to celebrate, his publishers in the US and UK are releasing centenary editions of Lord of the Flies with a new introduction by Stephen King. As the new edition hits American shelves this month, here?s a look at some of the most notabl...
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on Friday, November 11, 2011
Amazon author sues reviewer
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The Telegraph reports that a man from England?s West Midlands is being sued by the self-published author of The Attempted Murder of God: Hidden Science You Really Need to Know. I know, right? With a title like that, who?d've thunk the author might be a little highly strung? Writer Chris McGrath h...
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on Friday, November 11, 2011
SLIDE SHOW: Holiday Wish List: First Editions
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borges,
hammet,
albert
Two years ago, Carolyn Kellogg at Jacket Copy wrote about a few pricey holiday gifts that bibliophiles will swoon over, such as a first edition of Ulysses published in 1922 by Shakespeare & Co., which costs a mere $200,000-$300,000. She also mentioned a first edition of Lewis Carroll?s The Huntin...
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on Friday, November 11, 2011
Day in Review
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New web producer for the NYT Book Review The fiction of literary friendship Jane Austen blogger RiverRun Bookstore needs 100K Stephen King donates to heat Maine homes Amazon backs marketplace fairness? The editor has become a banker Open your own People?s Library ?It?ll be like no TV I?ve ever se...
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on Friday, November 11, 2011
In defense of Romenesko
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controversy,
ethics,
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plagiarism
It seemed a big revelation: yesterday a Poynter Institute veteran named Julie Moos (?Director of Poynter Online and Poynter Publications?) accused pioneering media blogger Jim Romenesko of ?a pattern of incomplete attribution? during his 12-year tenure as the country?s best known aggregator of me...
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on Thursday, November 10, 2011
Money to burn?
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chain,
kobo
Heather Reisman with a Kobo reader Heather Reisman, CEO of Canada?s biggest books chain, Indigo Books & Music Inc, has just signed a very lucrative deal. According to this story in the Toronto Globe and Mail: After making a $315-million (U.S.) deal to sell e-reader maker Kobo Inc., Ms. Reisman is...
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on Thursday, November 10, 2011
What to drink while reading Jakob Arjouni
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kemal,
pilsen,
headaches,
efes
Two lit-bloggers, Caroline of Beauty is a Sleeping Cat and Lizzy of Lizzy?s Literary Life have concocted one of the biggest cross-blog celebrations we have ever seen. Planned for months, the two bloggers have involved dozens of bloggers in their inaugural German Literature Month and the month th...
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