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Plastic Logic has partnered with a host of new magazines, including Popular Science, PC World, Macworld, CIO, Network World, Computerworld , and Technology Review --making these publications available for the QUE reader.
The digital device will be unveiled in early January, an ultra-thin ...
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The Free Press
Julian Barnes
U.S. District Judge James Ware has denied Spring Design's motion to block the sale of Barnes & Noble's nook.
In early November, Spring Design sued Barnes & Noble over the design of their digital reader Nook , arguing that the bookseller broke non-disclosure agreements and "misappropriated ...
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Julian Barnes
The Court
Start the new year right--by finishing your nonfiction book proposal. Throughout the month of December, mediabistro.com is offering daily deals on a slew of its courses that begin in January. Today's offer may interest a few GalleyCat readers.
With this one-day offer , readers can save $100 ...
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Random House
Yesterday Tiger Woods admitted to unnamed "transgressions," but stressed that he had no interest in sharing his story. We wondered if golfer's car crash and allegations of infidelity would produce a book deal.
Oddly enough, the first book to profit from the event was " Get a Grip on ...
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The Wall
John Gribbin
Julian Barnes
As the holiday season nears, this GalleyCat editor has vowed to only buy books for his loved ones and friends. If you are joining this crusade, you may need some ideas.
The excellent literary and music blog Largehearted Boy is a great place to start--annually aggregating the Best Books of ...
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A federal judge has rejected Amazon.com (AMZN)'s request to prevent "preliminary approval" of the Google Books settlement.
Here's more from Reuters : "In a Tuesday ruling, U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said he planned to conduct a 'thorough fairness analysis' of the settlement at a ...
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On this unusually warm December morning in NYC, publishers have posted three new jobs. Like a hardboiled gumshoe, GalleyCat has been investigating publishing work on the mediabistro.com job boards . For your resume-making pleasure, here are the new postings.
First up, a book publishing ...
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In a thoughtful post about a Twitter experiment, the Vroman's Books blog asked a question that cuts to the heart of 21st Century bookselling: is Twitter a valuable tool for finding readers or an "echo chamber" for publishing folks?
Yesterday, the literary journal Electric Literature ...
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Today's Featured Book of the Day is The Quotable Musician: From Bach to Tupac . This is a collection of quotes that range from classical musicians to hip hop artists. This book has over a thousand sayings that are inspirational, humorous, and spiritual. From the Beatles to Bob Marley each ...
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Today the Wonderfactory revealed that look at a digital version of Sports Illustrated they designed for Time, Inc.--a peek at the reading applications that will run on highly anticipated tablet computers.
In a NY Times post today, one writer explored the different tools offered on ...
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Digital book readers will be hot gifts for the literary set this year, but one gadget expert thinks we haven't even seen the eBook reader that will one day rule the digital book scene. Today's guest on the Morning Media Menu was PC Mag Digital Network executive editor Dan Costa .
He gave us ...
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Today the literary folks at HTML Giant launched an informal grammar contest based on David Foster Wallace 's work-- publishing an actual worksheet from a nonfiction workshop taught by the obsessive author.
Here's an excerpt from the post: "What follows is the complete text of a worksheet ...
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Wallace Stegner
In a Foreign Policy interview, former President Bill Clinton revealed a sizable portion of his bookshelf.
The fascinating interview should generate plenty of gift ideas for the scholarly aspiring President on your holiday shopping list. Thanks to the Little, Brown and Co. Twitter feed ...
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Outliers
The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell
Evolution
Matt Ridley
Despite writing the book, " How I Play Golf ," a tell-all memoir does not seem to be in the future for Tiger Woods . In a statement this morning, Woods admitted to unnamed "transgressions," but stressed that he had no interest in sharing his story.
Here's an excerpt from Woods' statement : ...
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Everybody panicked about the future of books should keep their shirts on--in September, Novel-T launched a line of baseball shirts for famous literary characters and authors.
To find out about the future of the shirts, GalleyCat interviewed Novel-T co-creator David Bukszpan . "The shirts ...
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Nicci French
The Americans
In a recent interview, O Magazine books director and former Publishers Weekly editor Sara Nelson blamed both journalists and publishers for pushing author advances to destructively high sums over the last few years.
Here's an excerpt from her interview, conducted by Christopher Kenneally ...
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Sara Gruen
Thousands of writers have just completed the National Novel Writing Month ( NaNoWriMo ) challenge, and one self-publishing outfit used the writing marathon to grow their user base. During the event, FastPencil offered writers who survived a free printed copy of their novel.
To find out more, ...
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In a simple Twitter post last night, Vroman's Books ended their role in a recent literary Twitter experiment--learning a lesson about 21st Century distribution in the process.
Earlier this week, the literary journal Electric Literature launched a "microserialization" experiment by ...
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Rick Riordan
Family Album by Penelope Lively is Today's Featured Book of the Day. Lively has written a story about a mother trying to give her family the best possible life. Alison is the doting mother of six children and tries to provide them with the best childhood. She is also completely in love and ...
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Penelope Lively
In a long essay about lack of independent press reviews in the mainstream media, Permanent Press co-publisher Martin Shepard (pictured) broke down the NY Times' book critics' favorite books of 2009 lists --exposing how eight major publishers completely dominated the three critics' favorites. ...
