Tag archive: Books

As pointed out by Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Brad Stone on Google+ earlier today, Barnes & Noble will not stock physical copies of books released by Amazon's publishing division. Designed to keep Amazon out of the brick and mortar locations across the United States, the company is taking this position in response to Amazon's new strategy of selling physical and digital copies of specific releases exclusively through the… Read More

Following news that Nintendo will introduce an application store with its forthcoming Wii U console, a rumor has appeared that an eBook download service could be introduced too. This builds on the speculation that Nintendo wants its next console to be more than just a games machine. Quoting an unnamed software developer who has been working with Nintendo, Forgetthebox.net was told of a complete eBook download service, featuring not only books,… Read More

Ever since Bethesda Softworks released Skyrim on November 11, the folks over at Capane have been collecting the in-game books that are available to read within Skyrim and converting them into formats that can be downloaded onto e-readers and tablets. Within the files for the game, the books are all in plain text rather than encoded files. The people at Capane saved each book into a separate document, added headings as well as a table of… Read More

Here are some of the hottest, most buzzed-about books this week. Download them on your Kindle, read them on your iPad, or go to a bookstore if you like to keep things old-school. 11/22/63 by Stephen King Fiction big-name Stephen King is back with a gripping novel about the day President Kennedy died — as the title would suggest. In this version, however; a man travels back in time to attempt to stop the shocking assassination that rocked… Read More

Here are some of the hottest, most buzzed-about books this week. Download them on your Kindle, read them on your iPad, or go to a bookstore if you like to keep things old-school. Blue Nights by Joan Didion Joan Didion is without a doubt one of the most powerful writers of our time; her 2005 memoir (The Year of Magical Thinking) about her life, marriage, and the unfortunate death of her fellow-writer husband won the National Book Award. In this… Read More

Funnyman and Twitter user Steve Martin has decided to publish a book of his tweets. Whether anyone wants to buy a book of tweets that can be easily viewed online is another matter, but the good news is that profits from any sales will be going to charity.  Martin announced his intention to compile a book of his tweets in, not surprisingly, a tweet.  “Due to absolutely no demand, soon I'm publishing a book of my tweets. Many of your… Read More

Here are some of the hottest, most buzzed-about books this week. Download them on your Kindle, read them on your iPad, or go to a bookstore if you like to keep things old-school. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami In this nearly 1,000-page epic feat of world literature, Murakami tells the story of a young girl in 1984 Tokyo who enters a parallel world after following the strange instructions of a taxi driver. Meanwhile, we follow a young man's story… Read More

With the recent passing of Apple co-founder and legend Steve Jobs, books have been flying off the shelves about the tech genius's life and rise to the top. While we are all deeply saddened by the death of Jobs, it's also a good reason to celebrate the life and work of a man who changed the way we all see technology, whether you're an Apple geek or not. We've rounded up some of our Digital Trends picks in books and movies… Read More

Here are some of the hottest, most buzzed-about books this week. Download them on your Kindle, read them on your iPad, or go to a bookstore if you like to keep things old-school. Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis Well-known and well-loved author Michael Lewis is back with a fascinating look at the before and after of the 2008 economic collapse. Before the collapse, Lewis paints a picture of cheap credit and irresistible… Read More

While the Barnes & Noble Nook and the Sony Reader have offered the ability to check out library books in a digital format for a while, Amazon has been slow to roll out support for the function. Announced in April, Amazon partnered with a company called OverDrive that works with over 13,000 public libraries in providing e-book support. Since that announcement, Amazon has been quiet about the development of the relationship as well as the… Read More

Here are some of the hottest, most buzzed-about books this week. Download them on your Kindle, read them on your iPad, or go to a bookstore if you like to keep things old-school.  Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy by Caroline Kennedy Just four months after her husband John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy found the strength to sit down and record seven interviews about her time in… Read More

Here are some of the hottest, most buzzed-about books this week. Download them on your Kindle, read them on your iPad, or go to a bookstore if you like to keep things old-school.  Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life by Michael Moore From the political provocateur extraordinaire comes a book that really has nothing to do with politics at all. Eschewing the typical personal memoir format, Michael Moore gives readers 24 distinct glimpses into… Read More

Announced today, Amazon is testing a new feature of the Kindle that allows readers to directly ask questions to the author of a book. Borrowing a page from Twitter, the program is called @author and allows readers to post questions from the Kindle. Readers can also visit the Amazon Author page to post questions on the Web. Questions are published on the Amazon Author page and readers interested in the author can read all questions. Using the… Read More

Here are some of the hottest, most buzzed-about books this week. Download them on your Kindle, read them on your iPad, or go to a bookstore if you like to keep things old-school.  Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography by Errol Morris Contrary to this book's title, most people believe that 'seeing is believing,' but when it comes to photography, how can we be so sure? Morris, an Academy Award-winning… Read More

Here are some of the hottest, most buzzed-about books this week. Download them on your Kindle, read them on your iPad, or go to a bookstore if you like to keep things old-school.  The Submission by Amy Waldman Books about 9/11 have been trickling out ever since the horrific events happened almost ten years ago. Most are nonfiction explorations into the events, the mysteries, or the conspiracy theories surrounding the tragedy. The Submission… Read More