http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6988740.ece
So here we are in 2010. Technology seems to be the ‘it’ topic right now. From tons of sources lately I have heard things like, don’t buy external hard drives, back up online, no more cds and dvds, everything needs to be digital, and of course, move over paper books, e-books are here.
This [...]
As some of you may know, it is Banned Book Week. The event started in 1982 and is held during the last week of September. The aim of BBW is to gain public awareness of the practice of banning books.
Most books that appear on list in regards to being banned are actually being [...]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090921/ap_en_re/us_book_review_shooting_stars
This is a really good review. I just came across it and instantly was like, I WANT to read that book. Sport memiors are not even my thing at all. Actually, the only one I have read was Drive by Larry Byrd. It was for class. However, this writer makes Labron James’ new books [...]
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10355318-265.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
The world of books is definately chaning. Technology is taking over and chaning everything. This is just more evidence of that fact. Google is hoping to announce tomorrow that all their public domain book will be available to print on demand.
The idea that it is a answer to people reluctate to switch to [...]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090915/stage_nm/us_fashion_strategy_1
That was actually the very first story that popped up tonight when I was looking and I instantly found it interesting. Obviously many of us are feeling the recession. I’m very fortunate to work at a job that is not. I recently quit my second job though so am definately learning to stretch my [...]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090914/ap_en_ot/us_book_review_making_mischief
Not surprisingly, an author is coming out with a book about Where the Wild Things are and it’s author Maurice Sendak. The movie is coming out here soon so of course someone is capitalizing on it.
Sorry, I know that is a pretty negative outlook but that was my first reaction when I saw [...]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090908/ap_en_ce/us_traveling_with_pomegranates
Guess this is one way to follow in your mother’s shoes. This is actually a really cool idea if you ask me. Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair, and her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor have wrote a book together. It is a memior which captures both [...]
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/books/09arts-YESJAMESPATT_BRF.html
James Patterson fans rejoice. Yesterday Hatchett Book Group announced that they are signing Patterson on for a shockingly large book deal. Seventeen books to be exact.
This has got to be one of the biggest publishing deals of all time. I tried to look up if that was a record but couldn’t come across [...]
It is true.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090903/ap_on_en_ot/us_books_q_a_nicholas_sparks
Yesterday marked the release of Nicholas Spark’s newest novel, The Last Song. Being a long time Sparks fan, I was excited and picked up the book and started reading hour later. I started out with the Acknowledgements. Much to my surprise they included this…
“The Cyrus family deserves my thanks not only [...]
