iBooks
Bestsellers: Child Ousts Forman 'Personal,' the latest Jack Reacher novel from Lee Child, was the top selling title in Apple’s iBooks store last week. The book unseated Gayle Forman’s 'If I Stay,' which claimed the #1 spot in weeks surrounding the August 22 release of the film adaptation. more »
Author Says
Novel Was Plagiarized : A Utah author says a schoolteacher
plagiarized her Christian romance novel, added graphic sex scenes and passed it
off as her own.
Amazon vs Hachette,
Wait for Audiobooks: Cory Doctorow writes it is
"profoundly, heartbreakingly naive to expect that Amazon will be any less
ruthless in exploiting the advantage it is being handed over audiobooks than it
has been in its exploitation of e-books."
Rebooting
Christie’s Poirot: Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie’s fastidious
Belgian detective, is resurrected in Sophie Hannah’s new mystery, 'The Monogram
Murders,' the first new Poirot story since Christie’s death in 1976.
Magic Building
Where English Majors Work: Making sense of creative writing’s
job problem, in an essay from the Millions.
Reading
Insecurity: Has the Internet killed thoughtful, prolonged
engagement with a text—or are we nostalgic for a reading Eden that never
existed?
'The
Dog' by Joseph O’Neill As he did "brilliantly" in 'Netherland,' O’Neill, in his latest, "creates a character who is alienated from his home and social class, and who feels dangerously vulnerable in a country in which he lives a luxurious but precarious existence." The novel is, according to our starred review, "clever, witty, and profoundly insightful," and "a beautifully crafted narrative about a man undone by a soulless society."
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