February 2012
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Listening to Books (from n+1) →
Open Books: MWF Seeking BFF: A Reading & Signing... →
Follow our events like this one over on Meetup.com!
openbooksorg:
MWF Seeking BFF is an engaging account of one woman’s quest to find a new best friend. After moving to a new city (Chicago, actually!) Rachel Bertsche realized that, though happy with her life here, she was missing one important thing - gal pals. She developed a plan to go on 52 friend…
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Harry Potter E-books Will be Available at your... →
Some great news, especially as many publishers are putting new and more stringent restrictions on e-book lending. No word what the restriction on the Harry Potters e-books, if any, will be. No word on a date yet, either! Let’s hope it’s soon!
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Faber To Publish Two-Volume Metallica Bio →
Guarantee that Bill Gates starts a metal band. ^KE
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“With this Barbie Hunger Games Doll you can style Barbie just like Katniss...”
– Wow… I think Mattel missed the entire point of these books. ^LB
Mattel Is Releasing A Hunger Games Barbie Doll
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Is there Gender Bias in Book-Reviews?
Gender bias in the book-review world has been the hot topic in the past few months. It all started when Jennifer Weiner and Jodi Picoult called out the New York Times for reviewing more male writers than female. They’re correct: in the past two years, 60% of NYT reviews have been of books written by men. The situation is even worse in many other newspapers. NPR talks to male writers 70% of...
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Open Books Bestsellers: Feb 19th - Feb. 26th
The Chicagoan magazine reigns as our best-selling title this week (If you haven’t purchased a copy yet, you don’t want to miss this). In a distant second place, it is no surprise to see Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games with all of the movie hype out there. What are you reading this week?
Open Books Bestselling Titles for the week of Feb. 19th, 2012
The Chicagoan Issue 1A
The...
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Fidel. Meet Guinness. →
Fidel Castro attends release for his two-volume book and speaks for six hours! ^KE
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Blade Runner Sequel? Oh, Ford! →
Most Philip K. Dick stories are turned into horrible movies. Blade Runner broke that rule. Don’t ruin it by making a sequel, Mr. Ford! ^KE
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The Amazon Standoff - An Author's View
Many believe that B&N was wrong for making a policy to not carry physical books published by Amazon. Many also believe that Amazon is wrong for making a policy to not carry IPG’s 5,000+ ebooks. Finally, an author weighs in. Jim Hanas writes:
I’ve never been an anti-Amazon radical. I usually remain quiet when people discuss the great lengths they go to not buy from Amazon. Amazon...
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“I am not averse to excellent shops in which the proprietor also attempts to make...”
– Rick Gekoski
(We try to be both useful and beautiful. What is your opinion on this matter? Or on our success?)
Kevin's Early Morning Browse - 02/24/12
Barnes & Noble releases a new Kindle… er… Nook. Nook… er… Kindle sales fall.
The big news in the book world yesterday was J.K. Rowling’s announcement that she will be publishing a new book “for adults” with Little, Brown. No details on genre, subject, or title are available. My suggestion? Harry Potter and the Credit Default Swap!
Have a great...
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In Praise of the Long, Lunatic Novel →
“That’s what makes me sad: life is so different from books.”
– Pierrot le Fou (1965)
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Frank Bruni gets Young Adults
“I can’t say I feel quite that passionately about “The Fault in Our Stars.” But I admire it enormously, more so than most of the adult-targeted novels I’ve read of late. And I found myself eager to share it. I bought a copy for a dear friend’s 12-year-old daughter. Then I sent a copy each to my two brothers, for them to pass on to any of their seven children who might be interested. I...
Kevin's Early Morning Browse - 02/23/12
Our neighbor, IPG, stands strong against Amazon’s attempts to alter Kindle ebook terms in favor of the online marketplace. Amazon removes over 5,000 of IPG’s digital titles from their site. Physical copies remain available for sale through the site. A line has been drawn. What’s next?
We have sold out of The Chicagoan for a second time, but will be getting more copies this...
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Is the Recession Producing Great Literature? →
NPR highlights three new “Recession Lit” titles, including one of my favorite authors, Stewart O’Nan.
I would argue for the inclusion of Ed Park’s Personal Days to be included in this canon. ^KE
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Random P. G. Wodehouse Quotation Generator →
“He tottered blindly towards the bar like a camel making for an oasis after a hard day at the office.”
BEST WRITER IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. ^LB
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Capitol Couture →
A very cool Hunger Games blog! ^LB
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Kevin's Early Morning Browse - 02/22/12
Cormac McCarthy loves science. Hates exclamation marks and semicolons. How Vonnegut of him!
Greg Zimmerman ruminates on the effectiveness of blurbs over on BookRiot
Los Angeles Times announces 2011 Book Prize finalists
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Is Facebook Devaluing Words? →
via The Awl
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Dan Brown, Phone Booths, and Books! →
kevinelliottchi:
A few years ago, a group of friends and I attempted to stage an entertaining and harmless prank a la ImprovEverywhere. We wanted to create a line of people waiting to use a pay phone. While waiting, the people in line would be on their cell phones complaining about the wait for the land…
Open Books: Vol-Star: Lisa Chin! →
Go Lisa! (Vol-STAR!)
openbooksorg:
For as long as Open Books has operated a bookstore, Lisa Chin has been there to help it thrive. That’s over two years of consistently awesome volunteering! Not only is Lisa a top-notch volunteer, she is also an integral part of the Open Books community. We can always look forward to catching up at…
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Watch
If you never ever talk to people and you meet all of your needs on the internet, you wake up one day and you’re the Unabomber.
Ann Patchett gets the Colbert treatment (or Colbert gets the Patchett treatment)! Warning: This video will make you love Ann Patchett! :) ^KE
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Publishers less optimistic about digital books... →
How do you feel?
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Neil Gaiman: What today is... →
neil-gaiman:
”Well, when I changed schools, when I was a kid, my Dad made a point of telling me how much he had always looked forward to Presidents’ Day, when he was a boy, because it’s the law that on Presidents’ Day, the kids who go to school dressed as their favourite presidents get a big bag of candy.”
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Open Books Bestsellers: Feb 12th - Feb. 18th
There was a buzz in the air of the print world last week with the surprisingly early release of new Midwestern culture magazine, The Chicagoan (we have 20 copies left as of this writing… hurry in)! So much of a buzz that it tied the young adult buzz novel, The Hunger Games for our bestselling title of the week! Book club favorite, The Elegance of the Hedgehog made a sudden surge and there...
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Kevin's Early Morning Browse - 02/20/12
Happy Presidents Day, everyone! Here are a few links from over the weekend:
It was bound to happen. An author published a book as a Facebook Photo Album. Sigh…
Goodreads examines how books get discovered and makes charts about the subject.
Are teens embracing e-books? I don’t know because I can’t read this e-article without paying for a subscription… and that’s...
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