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Which Legendary Director Will Be Narrating The "Go The F*** To Sleep" Audiobook?

guardian.co.uk | Alison Flood | Posted 08.14.2011

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Legendary film director Werner Herzog has agreed to narrate an audio version of the surprise hit Go the Fuck to Sleep, a comic bedtime book for parent...

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How A Completely Blank Book Became An Amazon Bestseller

Real Business | Posted 06.08.2011

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I stared at my computer screen. There, sitting in my inbox was an email that confirmed the world around me had gone totally and utterly, bone-fide, st...

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Are You a Commitment-Phobic Author?

Arielle Ford | Posted 05.25.2011

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Have you ever heard that you should dress for the job you want? The implication is to look the part so that your boss can picture you in the position...

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Author Beware: Unsteady Terrain Ahead

Peggy McColl | Posted 05.25.2011

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We often see warnings signs posted about things we should be aware (or beware) of as we explore new territories. For instance, a state park sign may...

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The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator

malcolmgladwellbookgenerator.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Amy Hertz, Huffington Post: What comes after "The Tipping Point"? A book titled "Nothing," on sandcastles, or "The Tripping Point," which can't rememb...

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Thriller Author James Patterson Aims To Improve The Narratives Of Games

ZDNet | Posted 05.25.2011

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Turns out, Patterson was more interested in adding better narrative to games (a worthy cause, IMHO), but seemed skeptical about the idea of gamifying ...

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Google Publishes Book To Explain The Internet

Telegraph | Posted 05.25.2011

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Search engine Google has commemorated the 20th anniversary of a paper crucial to the web's development by producing an online book to explain how the ...

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Managing the High Maintenance Client

Peggy McColl | Posted 05.25.2011

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Let's face it, we all have clients whose methods or personality would not be described as easy going and flexible. So what can you do with your more high maintenance clients?

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Stieg Larsson Boxed Set

publishersweekly.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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In time for the holiday season, Knopf will release a boxed set of Stieg Larsson's bestselling Millennium trilogy. The $99 package includes three hardc...

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Literary Underdogs

The Guardian | Benedicte Page | Posted 05.25.2011

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The eight books chosen for the inaugural Fiction Uncovered will be announced in spring 2011 and go into a Waterstone's "3 for 2" promotion. Foyles and...

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The Week's Hottest Reads: Publishers Weekly Bestsellers

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

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HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "American Assassin" by Vince Flynn (Atria)...

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The Religious Thriller And Why It's Here To Stay

Raymond Khoury | Posted 05.25.2011

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This was the lay of the land back in the spring of 1996. "Lose the religion." Not from some second-rate, clueless publisher, but from one of the biggest players out there.

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Mark Twain Beats Jon Stewart, John Grisham

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — It's never too late: Mark Twain is back on the best-seller lists. Pre-orders for the first of three planned volumes of his autobiogr...

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A Bookstore Flourishes

publishersweekly.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Fortunately for the two new booksellers, their previous careers accustomed them to working long hours for months at a time. Before moving to rural nor...

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Nicole Krauss, Peter Carey, Jaimy Gordon And More

Posted 05.25.2011

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Author Pat Conroy announced 20 finalists for the 2010 National Book Award at the Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home in Savannah, Georgia, today. The lis...

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Faber Alligns Independent Publishers With Digitization Service

thebookseller.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Faber Factory will provide text digitisation, digital distribution, free storage and sales reporting. Eighteen UK publishers are signed up to the sche...

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Borders Shuffles Merchandising Team

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Borders Group announced Monday that it is making several changes to its merchandising team under the direction of chief merch...

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Publisher At Frankfurt Book Fair

guardian.co.uk | Benedicte Page | Posted 05.25.2011

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Patrick Janson Smith, publisher at the HarperCollins imprint Blue Door, said there was plenty of hype around this year's fair, and claimed that publis...

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Bestselling author Stephen King was asked on CNN Money: "The internet, in many ways, killed the music industry. So, why won't it do that to books?" "...

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'Henrietta Lacks' Author Rebecca Skloot Ditches Book Festival

hamptonroads.com | Erica Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Best-selling author Rebecca Skloot has unexpectedly canceled her appearance at the ODU Literary Festival - a festival whose starting date was shifted ...

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Salinger-Signed 'The Catcher in the Rye' Up For Auction

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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That rarity, which makes the auction so exciting, also makes it merit scrutiny. And a thing or two about the auction of "The Catcher in the Rye" seem ...

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Squished Deer Brains With Bare Hands For Research

USA Today | Carol Memmott | Posted 05.25.2011

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On Oct. 6, the series will be released for the first time as e-books; paperback editions will be reissued with new covers next spring; and on March 29...

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The Week's Hottest Reads

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

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HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "Freedom" by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)...

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Tony Blair Faces Pelted Eggs, Shoes And Canceled Appearances

Politics Daily | Delia Lloyd | Posted 05.25.2011

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As Britain's former prime minister navigates his way through the world's most disastrous book tour, there's reason to think that his legacy may be a g...

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Stieg Larsson's 'Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' And Sequels

The Millions | Janet Potter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Such is the Millennium trilogy by investigative journalist Stieg Larsson, composed of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, ...

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