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  • Turn Off Oprah & Get Yourself on the Internets

  • Source: www.mediabistro.com Date: 40 minutes ago
    Jobs and recruiting for media professionals in journalism, on-line content, book publishing, TV, radio, PR, graphic design, photography, and advertising More

  • The Estonian argument for English translations

  • Source: www.guardian.co.uk Date: 44 minutes ago
    Martin Riker: The advantage of English's cultural dominance means that it can provide a means of opening up literary culture across Europe More

  • Fig Tree snaps up Hunt début

  • Source: www.thebookseller.com Date: 3 hours 7 minutes ago
    Juliet Annan at Fig Tree has bought a début novel, Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt, after an auction involving seven bidders, from Sarah Lutyens of Lutyens and Rubinstein. Annan bought UK and Commonwealth Rights (excluding Canada) to two novels. More

  • Something to Keep the Coffee Table Company: South African Art Now

  • Source: www.austinchronicle.com Date: 3 hours 40 minutes ago
    The heft and gravity of this 320-pager may far exceed the typical mission of the coffeetable genre More

  • Little Women

  • Source: features.csmonitor.com Date: 4 hours 34 minutes ago
    Books: Book reviews, news from the literary world, and a daily blog by the books editor of The Christian Science Monitor. More

  • Daily Dose for Fri, Nov 27: The Maze Runner (Maze Runner Trilogy #01)

  • Source: powells.com Date: 5 hours 40 minutes ago
    Powell's Books is the largest independent used and new bookstore in the world. We carry an extensive collection of out of print rare, and technical titles as well as many other new and used books in every field. More

  • Rin-Ne Book 1 » Manga Worth Reading

  • Date: 10 hours 36 minutes ago
    If any living person deserves the title “god of manga”, it would be Rumiko Takahashi. Over the past 30 years, she has created some of the best-known and longest-running series of the modern era, including such classics as Maison Ikkoku, Inuyasha, and Ranma ½. More

  • Cheaper Books Come at a High Cost to Worthy Literature

  • Source: www.resourceshelf.com Date: 13 hours 1 minute ago
    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/27/us/27sfmetro.htmlIn the digital age, hardcover books may seem like quaint anachronisms. They are heavy, expensive and do not run the latest apps or send text messages. If someone controls the market for them, does it really matter?“When a book is released in More

  • Traci Hall - live! Book signing!

  • Source: samhainpublishing.com Date: 18 hours 40 minutes ago
    She will enthrall you, with tales of magic, and intrigue you with true love please join Traci Hall for a “Wiccan” book signing. She will be signing Her Wiccan, Wiccan Ways and Something Wiccan This Way Comes. You can’t miss this chance to meet your favorite author at: More

  • Daily Dose for Thu, Nov 26: No More Prisons

  • Source: www.powells.com Date: Nov 26, 2009
    In this follow-up to the underground best-seller Bomb the Suburbs, William Upski Wimsatt's No More Prisons expands its focus out of culture and into politics. Hybridization is favored over ideology, with an emphasis on democracy and community-empowerment... More

  • Textbook rental could soon be an option

  • Source: www.kansan.com Date: Nov 26, 2009
    Professors and students look to start a rental program to make textbooks more affordable. More

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  • Source: www.beneaththecover.com Date: Nov 26, 2009
    REVERSE Nouns Verbs Adjectives Adverbs Miscellaneous Phrases about face back down/in assbackwards anticlockwise against the More

  • New Review @ TQC: Shadowplay by Norman Lock

  • Source: www.conversationalreading.com Date: Nov 25, 2009
    Just in time for Thanksgiving, read our review of Shadowplay by Norman Lock, from the estimable Ellipsis Press: With his short novel Shadowplay, Norman Lock makes no attempt to hide his inspirations or intentions; an epigraph states, “In Java during the reign of King Senapati, a master of the More

  • News story : Wolf Hall shortlisted for Costa Novel Awards

  • Source: www.themanbookerprize.com Date: Nov 25, 2009
    The awards recognise the "most enjoyable books" published in the last year by writers based in the UK and Ireland. Winners in the five categories, who each receive £5,000, will be announced on 5th January 2010. More

  • The Oprah question

  • Source: www.press.uillinois.edu Date: Nov 24, 2009
    Many, many authors have suggested that I send a review copy of his/her book to Oprah. I am 0 for 50 or so at this point.  And though my batting average will likely never increase, I know that in 2011 the futility will end when Oprah ceases hosting her current program.  PhenixPhenix evaluates More

  • Borders UK Stops Taking Orders

  • Source: www.artsjournal.com Date: Nov 24, 2009
    "Borders, which also has the Books Etc brand, was thought to be in discussions with rivals including Waterstone's-owner HMV about selling the business, but concern is now growing that the retailer is on the brink of collapsing into administration."... More

  • Good 50x70

  • Source: www.indexbook.com Date: Nov 24, 2009
    Good 50x70 : Graphic Design Books : Varios Autores : Good 50x70 is a contest with a world wide footprint that calls for posters that confront seven of the critical issues affecting today s world. More

  • Let the speculation begin...

  • Source: stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com Date: Nov 24, 2009
    From the BBC:Borders' website suspends book sales Borders has 45 stores across the UK The website of the Borders bookshop chain in More

  • Truthdig Goes to Guantanamo

  • Source: www.fromthesquare.org Date: Nov 23, 2009
    On my way to the booth, walking across gravel made bright white by the blazing Caribbean sun, my status as a civilian—clean shaven, dressed in a tie and formal shoes—was punctuated by the loud sounds of practice machine-gun fire in the distance. More

  • Shakespeare Translated in Punjabi

  • Source: www.rarebooknews.com Date: Nov 23, 2009
    " For Surjit Hans, a well known Punjabi litterateur and retired professor of history, reading Shakespeare in English was not very easy. So he translated the Bard's plays into Punjabi." Read this article.... More

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