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  1544 readersToday’s free eBook of the Day is North Korea’s former dictator Kim Jong Il’s manifesto on filmmaking, Theory of Cinematic Art. Here is an excerpt: “The director is the commander of the creative group. He should have the overall responsibility for artistic creation, production organization and ideological education and guide all the members of the creative

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  Maurice Sendak: “Publishing Is Such an Outrageously Stupid Profession”

  685 readersBy Dennis Abrams In an interview with The Believer shortly before his death in May at the age of eighty-three, legendary children’s author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, never known for holding back his opinions, spoke out on a wide-ranging variety of topics, including sex, death, Homer, George Eliot and Daniel Deronda, anti-Semitism, his partnership of fifty

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  Ingram Will Demo new eBook Signing Platform at BEA 2011

  852 readersIf you’re going to be in NYC next week, you might want to stop by Book Expo America. Ingram Content Group will have authors in its booth signing eBooks. They’ll be using a new eBook signing service called LiveSign. It was developed by iDoLV...

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  Review: Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy, Taking a Chance Pays Off

  1723 readersBy Dennis Abrams It opens with a sudden death, “Then pain such as he had never experienced sliced through his brain like a demolition ball.  He barely noticed the smarting of his knees as they smacked onto the cold tarmac…” and ends one more near death, two deaths and a funeral.  In between there’s teenage sex,

• Morning Brief: U.S. airstrike reportedly kills al-Awlaki in Yemen; Samsung surprises with a new tablet introduction

  1227 readersThe AP's Kimberly Doziere is among those reporting that a drone attack has killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an American born cleric and prominent al-Qaida leader. While most reports have been clearly slanted towards the view that the killing of al-Awlaki is a positive thing, the AP report at least bring up the very thorny issue of al-Awlaki's

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  Today’s Google Doodle Honors Jorge Luis Borges

  1534 readers The Argentinian-born author, poet, and translator Jorge Luis Borges was born on this day in 1899. He was raised in Switzerland and Argentina, and died in 1986 in Switzerland. Borges was a leading mind in science fiction as well as a pioneer in the magic realism genre. Click here for a selection of past book and eBook

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  Inside iTunes this morning: Davy Jones remembered; the OC Register brings Kindle-like navigation to The Peel

  823 readersTwo famous people died yesterday, but as you'd expect only one graces the front of iTunes this morning. Steve Jobs was quite The Beatles fan, but like a lot of people who remember the music (and television) from the sixties, he probably also had a soft spot in his heart for the Monkees. As you've probably

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  Year One: the born digital publisher

  1207 readersHere’s another article on digital publishing – this time from a scholarly publication, The Society for Scholarly Publishing: … Publishers today are either Born Again or Born Digital depending on whether a company already exists or is a new entity. With few exceptions, companies that already exist seek to be Born Again. They survey their

• Short takes: Is it now on to the general election?; U.S. Economy grew at 3% in the last quarter of 2011; Apple now faces the kind of scrutiny Microsoft used to deal with

  489 readersAfter all the talk of a possible win in Michigan, following victories in other state primaries, the Santorum campaign's losses last night feel to have a finality to them. Yes, Mitt Romney was supposedly from Michigan, but that was simply a campaign spot, anyone who has been governor of one state can't really claim another

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  Free eBook – ‘Necrophobia #1: (Zombie Apocalypse)’

  897 readersAs you can probably guess from the title, today we have a zombie eBook to give away. Necrophobia, by Jack Hamlyn, looks like it’s just another zombie book, but if the reviews are to be believed, this eBook is ahead of the pack. An ordinary summer’s day. The grass is green, the flowers are blooming. All