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Moving the Needle

Nathan Bransford | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Writing, Book Publishing, Authors, Future of Publishing, Publishers, Books, New Media, Bestsellers, Books News
Nathan Bransford

Editors want to take authors to the next level or make a splash with a debut. Publishers want to gain traction with new electronic formats. Sales and marketing teams want to make a splash. Everyone is desperate for a hit.

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Brooklyn Bookstore Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary

The New York Times | CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Brooklyn Bookstore, Independent Bookstore, Spoonbill & Sugartown Booksellers, Independent Bookstores, Bookstores, Books, New York Bookstore, Booksellers, Books News

Spoonbill & Sugartown Booksellers observed its 10th anniversary Tuesday morning with a ceremony on the sidewalk in front of the shop, on Bedford Avenu...

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Palin Aide's New Book Dropped

AP | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Renegade, Palin Going Rogue, Frank Bailey, Palin, Going Rogue, Palin Aide, Palin Aide Book, Books, Frank Bailey Renegade, Sarah Palin Book, Sarah Palin, Books News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A California publicist and two co-authors have terminated a book deal with a former aide of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. ...

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Veterans Day: 10 Classic American War Books (POLL)

Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Ernest Hemingway, Michael Herr, Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Books, Veterans Day, War and Remembrance, Slidepoll, Jarhead, A Farewell to Arms, War Novels, Thin Red Line, Bestsellers, Great War Books, Joseph Heller, Dispatch, The Things They Carried, Caputo, War Books, Tim O'Brien, American War Books, Catch-22, Stephen Crane, Classic War Books, The Red Badge of Courage, Books News

In honor of Veterans Day, we've put together a list of 10 great American war books. These range from the timeless classics to the modern, from those t...

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Mary Karr Interview: "Lit" Part II

Huffington Post | Steve Ross | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Writing Memoir, New Books, Mary Karr Lit, Bestsellers, Catholicism, Cherry, Lit, Writers, Melville, Interview, Writing, Authors, The Liar's Club, Mary Karr Memoir, Author Interviews, Books, Mary Karr, Mary Karr Interview, Memoir, Books News

The following is a continuation of a Huffington Post interview with author Mary Karr on her new memoir, "Lit." You can read the first part here. Hu...

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Navy SEAL Photos In New Book, "SEAL: The Unspoken Sacrifice" (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Stephanie Freid-Perenchio | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Slideshow, Navy Seals, Seals, War, Veterans Day, New Books, Books, Military Families, Photography, War Photos, Photos, Books News
Stephanie Freid-Perenchio

After the events of 9/11, I realized that the world of Navy SEALs was still shrouded in secrecy. I wanted to explore and shed light upon this culture that most people had never seen nor fully understood.

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The Genius of the Place

Daniel Krotz | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Donald Harington, Alexander Pope, Berryville, Books, Arkansas, Daniel Krotz, Community Gardens, The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks, Gardening, Bookseller, Gardens, Green News
Daniel Krotz

I can clearly see my house, or the beginnings of my house, in the far background of a 1903 postcard of the First Christian Church in Berryville, Arkansas.

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Brits Complain That Chains Stores Are Killing Books

The Guardian | Stuart Jeffries | Posted 11.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Uk, England, Publishing, Independent Bookstores, British Bookstores, UK Bookstores, Bookstores, Bookselling, Future of Publishing, Books, Britain, Waterstone's, Books News

"They simply treat books as a commodity," says Nicholas Spice, publisher of the London Review of Books, and one of the chain's sternest critics. "Ther...

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Great Author Interviews With Barbara Kingsolver, Sapphire, and Mary Karr(AUDIO)

npr.com | Posted 11.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Barbara Kingsolver, Barbara Kingsolver the Lacuna, The Lacuna, Writers, Books, Writing, Mary Karr Lit, Precious, Lit, Authors, Npr, Sapphire Push, Sapphire, Radio, Push, Author Interviews, Mary Karr, Books News

NPR has a host of great author interviews every week, and we thought we'd bring you the best of the recent ones. Listen below for three really great o...

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2012: Books On Mayan Doomsday Predictions

Dallas Morning News | Douglas Brown | Posted 11.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Mayan Legend, December 21 2012, The 2012 Story, New Books, John Major Jenkins, Astrology, Books, Mayan Calendar, 2012, Apocalypse 2012, Daniel-Pinchbeck, Books News

Movies are pushing it, television shows are plotting it, books and Web sites have sprung from its fertile soil. The subject: Dec. 21, 2012. That's th...

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"You Know You're in Book Love When ... "

Steve Leveen | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Book Love, Book Lovers, Book-Lovers, Books, Books News
Steve Leveen

Book love is a lot like romantic love. It's a feeling, either at work or at play, of being beckoned by your book so the two of you can be together again.

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Stephen King On "Under The Dome" (VIDEO)

abcnews.com | Posted 11.10.2009 | Books

Read More: New Stephen King, Under the Dome, Authors, New Books, Stephen King Under the Dome, Stephen King, Books, Stephen King Book, Author Interview, Books News

Stephen King appeared on Good Morning America this morning to discuss his new thriller, out today, "Under the Dome," which he says can be read as a me...

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Miami Book Fair Going Strong This Week

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Barbara Kingsolver, Tracey Kidder, Books, Margaret Atwood, Mary Karr Lit, Book Fair, Lit, Author Events, Book Fairs, Barbara Kingsolver Lacuna, Margaret Atwood Year of the Flood, Authors, Miami Book Fair, Joyce Carol Oates, Year of the Flood, Orhan Pamuk, Ruth Reichl, Author Readings, Gourmet, Sherman Alexie, Lacuna, Jonathan Lethem, Mary Karr, Reading, Miami, Books News

All this week, Miami is celebrating the world of literature with its annual Book Fair. Running from November 8 - 15 and open to the public for a small...

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The New HuffPost Books Widget

Paul Berry | Posted 11.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Glue, Bestellers, Indiiebound, Books, Books Widget, Barnes and Noble, Getglue, Widget, Amazon, Books News
Paul Berry

There is a cool new widget appearing today at the bottom of book articles, going site-wide next week, and we're really excited about bringing it to you.

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Mary Karr Speaks To HuffPost Books About Her New Memoir "Lit"

The Huffington Post | Steve Ross | Posted 11.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Cherry, Writing Memoir, Books, Writing, Author Interview, New Books, Mary Karr Lit, Lit, Interview, Bestsellers, Authors, The Liar's Club, Memoir, Mary Karr, Mary Karr Interview, Books News

The brouhaha that flared last week when "Publishers Weekly" announced its list of Top Ten Books of the Year, a list that garnered probably unwanted bu...

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Making an Author Video

Joseph Kanon | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Author Videos, Authors, Book Videos, Book Publicity, Books, Stardust, Facebook, Book Trailers, Books News
Joseph Kanon

You can see authors smiling on our websites, taking questions on our publisher's web page, chatting on Facebook. And now the author video.

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Eating Animals: A Book to Digest

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Vegetarian, Books, Food Politics, Agriculture, Factory Farms, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News
Wayne Pacelle

Foer's taken a three-year respite from writing fiction to probe the question of whether we should eat animals -- with this research and writing task triggered by his meditation on what to feed his first child.

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Amazon Sucks Up To Big Literary Agents

Crain's New York Business | Matthew Flamm | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Kindle, E-Books, Future of Publishing, Amazon Pricing, Ereaders, Literary Agents, Amazon.com, Publishing, Kindle eBooks, Amazon Kindle, New York Literary Agents, Book Agents, Authors, E-Readers, Ebooks, Books, Amazon, Books News

Amazon.com has gone on a charm offensive. The online retailing giant flew out a dozen of New York's top literary agents last week for a day of meetin...

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Washington Times Shake-Ups Connected To New President's Book Review?

Politico | Michael Calderone | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Newspapers, Washington Times Staffing, Washington Times, Books, Book Reviews, Clash of the Gods Review, Clash of the Gods, Jonathan Slevin, Washington Times Book Review, Books News

Given today's big management changes and still-unanswered questions about whether executive editor John Solomon will stay at the paper, there are a lo...

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Sing Any Good Books Lately?

Laurence Hughes | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

Read More: The Odyssey, Jack Kerouac, Frankenstein, Books, Bram Stoker, Sting, David Gray, Music, Kate Bush, The Beatles, Edgar Allen Poe, Classics Rock, Wuthering Heights, Ulysses, Jackson Browne, Elliot Murphy, Harold Robbins, Alan Parsons, Books News
Laurence Hughes

The mission of my blog is to highlight popular songs that are based on, inspired by, or allude to books and authors -- "Books Shelved in Songs," as I say on the site.

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Greg Van Voorhis, Bronx Teacher, Suspended For Assigning Chuck Palahniuk Story

Runnin' Scared | By Camille Dodero (4:43PM 09/21) | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

Read More: Guts, Bronx, Teacher Suspended, Books, Chuck Palahniuk, Greg Van Voorhis Suspended, Greg Van Voorhis, Bronx School of Finance, New York News

We recall that when we worked as a tutor in Brooklyn in the 90s, many of our students carried a copy of Sapphire's Push with their schoolbooks. We won...

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Want To Sell Books? Start Gathering Fans

Richard Nash | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Bea, Publishing, Publishers Weekly, Books, Steve Ross, Publishers, Book Expo, Book Festival, Huffington Post, Book Fairs, Books News
Richard Nash

That pain in our foot? It's not outsiders stomping on it, it's us, shooting ourselves.

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A Sneak Peek At New Books

Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Alexander McCall Smith, Under the Dome, Barbara Kingsolver, Barbara Kingsolver the Lacuna, Sunday Book Review, The Lacuna, Stephen King, The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, Books, Mary Karr Lit, Lit, Book Review, Samuel Johnson, Book Reviews, Stephen King Under the Dome, Mary Karr, China, David Nokes, Books News

This week, the book review round-up includes some reviews from insider journals Publishers Weekly, Kirkus and Booklist, which often get the scoop on n...

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Andre Agassi's "Open": Meth, Bitterness, And Bad Hair (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

Read More: The Tender Bar, Ghostwriting, Books, Addiction, New Books, Tennis, French Open, Andre Agassi Book, Steffi Graf, Brooke SHields, US Open, Wimbledon, Katie Couric, Andre Agassi Open, Open, Book Reviews, Memoir, Andre Agassi, Moehringer, Andre Agassi Meth, Books News

Andre Agassi's new memoir, Open, out today, has been causing a stir because of major revelations in the book -- that Agassi used crystal meth regular...

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STRIP & REBIND: Why Publicists Love the Word "No"

Cassie Ammerman | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Book Reviews, Publicists, Publicity, Writing, Book Publishing, Blogs, Authors, Book Publicity, Biography, Books, Book Publicists, Newspapers, Books News
Cassie Ammerman

There is a word that publicists love almost as much as "yes." And it's "no." Seems counterintuitive, right? But it's true. There is little I love more than a solid "no."

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