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- Podcast: BOOK RIOT: Dear Book Nerd Episode #5: The Thing About Ebooks…
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News
- Casey Johnston (Ars Technica) with A book about science by a webcomic author hits #2 in Amazon sales
- Maddie Crum (The Huffington Post) with Nigerian Author Adichie Wins Fiction Prize
Podcasts
Ideas
- Daniel Levine (Books on HuffingtonPost.com) with 10 Most Misunderstood Villains in Literature
- Evan Gottlieb (Books on HuffingtonPost.com) with Jane Austen, ‘Game Theorist?’ Try ‘Subversive Sitcom Scribe’
- Esther Inglis-Arkell (io9) with Has Naive Cynicism Become A Literary Problem?
- Charlie Jane Anders (io9) with Is The “Young Adult” Boom Dwindling In Books As Well As Movies?
- Phil Edwards (The Huffington Post) with Celebrity Memoirs Are Awful. Here Are 4 Ways to Fix Them
- Francis Levy (The Huffington Post) with The Illiteracy
- Katy Guest (The Independent) with Gender-specific books demean all our children. So the Independent on Sunday will no longer review anything marketed to exclude either sex
Interesting Books
- Kirkus Reviews: Review: The Master of Confessions [Book Review]
- Jon Foro (Omnivoracious) with Case Closed? Art, Cannibals, and the Fate of Michael Rockefeller
Libraries
- Rich Johnston (Bleeding Cool) with Jamie Hewlett’s Art For The British Library’s Comics Unmasked, On Display
- Jeff (BOOK RIOT) with How to Renovate a Classic Library: On the St. Louis Central Library
- Rich Bellis (Digital Book World) with Libraries’ Most Avid Patrons Read Books Daily
Other Interesting Stuff
- Rob Beschizza (Boing Boing) with Poster exposes “A Diagrammatical Dissertation on Opening Lines of Notable Novels”
- Amanda Nelson (BOOK RIOT) with This Genius Bookcase Has a Built-In Ladder
- Chris Robley (BookBaby Blog) with What does 2 billion book sales look like?
- Susan Rieger (Books on HuffingtonPost.com) with The Epistolary Novel: A Love Song
- Benny Lewis (The Huffington Post) with Re-Appreciate Classic Literature: Learn Another Language
- Damon Linker (The Week) with Why we still need Heidegger — despite his Nazism
- Pamela Toler (Wonders & Marvels) with If You Love Jane Austen….