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  • April 2008

    • 50 Favorite Cult Books

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Apr 27, 08 10:53 AM CDT

      50 Favorite Cult Books

      (Newser) - It’s hard to define the "cult" book, but the Telegraph compiled 50 of the top contenders that “rewire your head.” The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe (1968) Baby and Child Care by Dr Benjamin Spock (1946) Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (1922) The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (1943) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960) More »

    • Lover Suspected Mailer of Gay Sex

      Times (UK)  |  Apr 27, 08 5:52 AM CDT

      Lover Suspected Mailer of Gay Sex

      (Newser) - One of Norman Mailer’s mistresses suspected the writer of having a gay affair—or perhaps several, reports the Times of London. Mailer also asked lover Carole Mallory to have three-way sex with a gay man, according to her notes in archives recently purchased by Harvard University. One of the men Mallory suspected of being romantically linked to Mailer, close friend Rick Stratton, said there was “no truth to” speculation that the writer had gay affairs. More »

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      book  • affair  • author  • Norman Mailer  • homosexual  • Carole Mallory

    • Spitzer Tell-All On Market for $350K

      New York Daily News  |  Apr 25, 08 1:55 PM CDT

      Spitzer Tell-All On Market for $350K

      (Newser) - The bidding for a tell-all on former New York governor Eliot Spitzer begins at $350,000, the Daily News reports, though publishers don't appear certain of a big market for such a book. An agent for Peter Elkind, a Fortune writer and co-author of an Enron tome, said she expects a deal to be done today. More »

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      book  • Eliot Spitzer  • sex scandal  • prostitute  • celebrity tell-alls

    • Wikipedia Goes to Print —in German

      Associated Press  |  Apr 24, 08 4:55 PM CDT

      Wikipedia Goes to Print &mdash;in German

      (Newser) - Wikipedia will soon hit bookshelves, the AP reports: German giant Bertelsmann AG is publishing a condensed print edition of the user-generated encyclopedia. The One-Volume Wikipedia Encyclopedia will contain 50,000 of the most-searched-for German entries this year—and it could be the first in an annual series. “A yearbook really can be a documentation of the zeitgeist,” said a publishing exec. More »

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      Internet  • Germany  • book  • Wikipedia  • encyclopedia  • Bertelsmann AG

    • Cracking the Steve Jobs Code

      USA Today  |  Apr 21, 08 6:39 AM CDT

      Cracking the Steve Jobs Code

      (Newser) - Though it’s near impossible to get an interview with Steve Jobs, author Leander Kahney’s book Inside Steve’s Brain gives a “fresh, noble perspective” on the Apple icon’s impenetrable mind, Jon Swartz writes in USA Today . Like most who try, Kahney couldn’t score facetime, but his book illustrates the opposing traits that make his subject—equal parts Disney and Barnum—who he is. More »

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      Apple  • book  • Steve Jobs  • iPod  • book reviews  • biography  • Pixar

    • Obama Earns $3.9M in Royalties

      USA Today  |  Apr 16, 08 10:08 PM CDT

      Obama Earns $3.9M in Royalties

      (Newser) - Barack and Michelle Obama earned $4.2 million last year, mostly from royalties from Obama's two books, Dreams From My Father and the Audacity of Hope . The Obamas' newly released returns for 2007 show they paid $1.4 million in federal taxes and gave $240,370 to charity, USA Today notes. His book sales have skyrocketed since he became a national figure. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Bill Clinton  • book  • Michelle Obama  • IRS  • tax returns  • federal income tax  • royalties

    • Politicians: They're All Crazy

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Apr 15, 08 3:56 PM CDT

      Politicians: They're All Crazy

      (Newser) - It’s no wonder George W. Bush and Tony Blair messed up in Iraq: They were crazy. At least that’s ex-British politician David Owen’s belief. In his new book, In Sickness and in Power , the ex-doctor explores the health of leaders throughout time. Bush and Blair were afflicted with “Hubris Syndrome,” a medical condition Owen invented to describe the power-mad. More »

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      George W. Bush  • book  • Tony Blair  • John F. Kennedy  • mental illness  • book reviews  • leadership

    • How to Write 200,000 Books Without Breaking a Sweat

      New York Times  |  Apr 14, 08 11:34 AM CDT

      How to Write 200,000 Books Without Breaking a Sweat

      (Newser) - Philip Parker calls himself “the most published author in the history of the planet,” but he doesn’t actually write any books; his computers do. Parker has created a series of algorithms that allow computers to cull publicly available information from the web and compile it into books on obscure topics, the New York Times reports. Need The 2007-2012 Outlook for Tufted Washable Scatter Rugs ? Parker has you covered. More »

    • Files May Be Fleeting

      Boston Globe  |  Apr 7, 08 1:29 PM CDT

      Files May Be Fleeting

      (Newser) - Cuneiform tablets have kept information safe across millenia, but hard drives have lifespans of just a few years. Even if your CDs survive the century, their players might have become obsolete, warns the Boston Globe . "Who knows how long they're going to last—how much time before the information on a zip disk just goes into cyberspace heaven," said one archivist. More »

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      book  • DVD  • CDs  • information technology  • digital media  • digital storage  • cassette tape

    • Book Publisher Takes Stab at New Model

      Wall Street Journal  |  Apr 4, 08 2:46 PM CDT

      Book Publisher Takes Stab at New Model

      (Newser) - HarperCollins has decided to rock the book-publishing boat, the Wall Street Journal reports. It’s launching a new imprint that won’t allow retailers to return unsold books—a potentially risky departure from tradition—and will offer little or no advance payments to authors. The imprint will focus on online sales and likely refuse to pay for prime bookstore real estate. More »

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      book  • retail sales  • publishing  • online retailers  • HarperCollins  • Borders  • Internet sales

    • We Need to Talk ... About Your Books

      New York Times  |  Apr 2, 08 6:25 PM CDT

      We Need to Talk ... About Your Books

      (Newser) - Forget toothpaste habits: Sometimes “a missed—or misguided—literary reference makes it chillingly clear that a romance is going nowhere fast," writes Rachel Donadio in the New York Times. Pasting your literary acumen all over your MySpace page has become the norm, and not a bad one. Just be prepared when “he hadn’t even heard of Pushkin!” becomes a rallying break-up cry. More »

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      book  • literature  • romance  • relationship

  • March 2008