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Books for kids about Dickens
Just in time for the 200th birthday of Dickens, there are three new illustrated books based on his life and the books he wrote. ●“ Charles Dickens: England’s Most Captivating Storyteller ” by Catherine Wells-Cole (Templar Books $19.99), uses pictures from his original books and photos and other pieces of art. Readers “see” Dickens’s life story and important parts of the stories in his books. By ...
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Do E-Books Threaten Democracy?
Do digital books threaten our democracy? Depends on who you ask. eBooks are on trial once again. This time, they represent nothing short of an existential threat to democracy itself. In the prosecutor's corner we have novelist Jonathan Franzen, playing the role of 'bookservative' and decrying the rise of these anti-democratic digital
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Books: ‘An Available Man,’ by Hilma Wolitzer
Hilma Wolitzer’s funny, wise and touching new novel is about Edward Schuyler, a 62-year-old science teacher, recently widowed, who finds himself relentlessly pursued by women: single women, divorced women, a woman who is married to one of his close friends, even a woman he loved in his 20s and planned to marry — until she left him waiting at the altar. Many of these women are friendly and ...
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E-Books Are Superior Tools To Physical Books
As Alan Jacobs says, 'books may be better objects, but e-books are better tools.'
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Books May Be Better Objects, but E-Books Are Better Tools
Can Kevin Kelly and Nick Carr both be right? A plausible thought about the future of the book. Nick Carr likes the fixities of the printed book ; Kevin Kelly agrees that "these are very real, and ...
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E-Books Allow the Return of the Pulps
I must say that The Guardian seems rather sniffy about this, the way that e-books are allowing the return of pulp fiction. E-book sales are being driven by downmarket genre fiction It doesn?t sound like they approve, does it? Kindle-owning bibliophiles are furtive beasts. Their shelves still boast classics and Booker winners. But inside that ...
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Lehman Bust Left Goldmanite Derman, Das Reading Spinoza, ‘Gatsby’: Books
Writing books on finance is one thing; reading them is another.
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E-books by crime writer Jim Thompson coming soon
Novels by acclaimed crime writer Jim Thompson are coming out as e-books.
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What the Dickens? Google uses doodle to (ultimately) sell books
Google is celebrating the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens with a doodle. But the doodle also seems to be trying to get you to use Google Books. Another example of Google's new commercialism?
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Indigo, Books-a-Million boycott Amazon
Booksellers Indigo Books and Music and Books-a-Million join Barnes & Noble in refusing to sell Amazon-published books – but Amazon may be looking into opening their own retail stores.
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