Amazon.com: Best of 2009: Books: Books: Yes, the frenzy has officially started with Amazon’s various lists of Best Books of 2009. On this page you’ll find links to several lists, including standard ones such as Editors’ Top 100 and Customers’ Top 100 and top books by category (e.g., mystery & thriller, biography, children’s books) as […]
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Three Hauntingly Unforgettable Literary Houses : NPR: Just in time for Halloween, NPR presents this list of three formidably haunted houses: “In some novels, the house is as much a force as any of the people in the story. When that happens, the human characters had better beware.”
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Here’s a run-down of some of the latest news in the continuing ebook wars: E-Book Fans Keep Format in Spotlight: From The New York Times. Nook from Barnes & Noble, available for preorder now. Borders how has the Sony Reader available in several editions: Sony Reader Touch Edition Sony Reader Pocket Edition: available in silver,
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Nation’s Retailers Engage In Online Book Pricing War : NPR: Anyone who has ever cringed at the price of a new hardcover book will be interested in news of the current price war between some of the largest retailers: The price war took off last week when Walmart, in a bid to compete with Amazon
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Dominick Dunne, Writer Who Chronicled High-Profile Crime, Is Dead at 83 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com: Dominick Dunne, who gave up producing movies in midlife and reinvented himself as a best-selling author, magazine writer, television personality and reporter whose celebrity often outshone that of his subjects, died Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was
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Book Review – ‘Get Real,’ by Donald E. Westlake – Review – NYTimes.com: The New York Times offers a review of Donald Westlake’s final novel: After watching a bare-chested dentist trekking through the jungle by torchlight to shake a spear at a sunburned accountant in a loincloth, you might think television reality shows were beyond
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I shall not be Kindled | csmonitor.com: Earlier in the decade, before the so-called ‘tech bubble’ burst, then-Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan warned of ‘irrational exuberance’ in the stock market. I feel the same way about electronic readers. And I feel that articles like this miss the point. I have always been a fan of
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Time-travel romances abound onscreen — latimes.com: This review of the recently opened movie version of The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger contains a list of other time-traveling films.
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Phones, PCs put e-book within reach of Kindle-less | csmonitor.com: Thanks to Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle, e-book sales are finally zooming, after more than a decade in the doldrums. But the pioneering device may not dominate the market for long. As Castaldo found, many phones are now sophisticated enough, and have good enough screens, to be
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Nonfiction Tweets: 70+ Authors to Follow on Twitter: I’m so deeply entangled in preparing to do my dissertation research that I haven’t had time even to figure out exactly what Twitter does. But for those of you who are more adept at social networking than I, here’s a list of nonfiction authors who Tweet. The
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