Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

There was lots of interesting book news this week so here goes:

The White House gatecrashers, Michaele and Tareq Salahi,  have decided to write a book about the incident according to reports at The Boston Herald and other news outlets.

Galleycat reports that Sammy Hagar, the former Van Halen frontman,  has a deal to publish his autobiography with It Books.  Publication is scheduled for next year.

Galleycat also has a piece about Ellie Kemper of the TV show, The Office.  She has a book deal with Three Rivers Press to print her novel.

Hollywoodnews.com is reporting that Michael Jackson’s mother is self-publishing a photo book about Michael.

Twenty-four of Jack Higgins’ books are being released as eBooks by Open Road Integrated Media according to an article at Publishers Weekly.  I like seeing more backlist titles being …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Welcome to another week of bookish news!  There were a couple of interesting new bookish hashtags on Twitter this week.  If you missed them before you can click on the hashtags here to go to the searches for #booksthatchangedmyworld  and #badnamesforbookimprints.The Internet Archive, a repository of public domain eBooks, has added a “Send to Kindle” link.  They have lots of great free eBooks over there.  I download books from there onto my Sony Reader every week.

eBookNewser had an interesting article about Austria’s national library cutting a deal with Google to digitize 400,000 of their books.  Scanning is set to start next year.

Borderzine has a piece on teen authors self-publishing their books.  It was an interesting read.  I’ve read about authors self-publishing their books, but I hadn’t thought about teenagers doing that.

The New York Times …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer is available as a free online read from June 7th to July 5.  Click on the title for the website.  It’s not downloadable.  The hardback went on sale on June 5th.  If you are curious about it’s sales numbers, thebookseller.com has the numbers here.

Just in time for summer beach reads, there is a waterproof case for the Kindle eReader.  Gizmodo has a picture of it here.  Kinda pricey, but probably worth it if you want to read by the pool or at the beach or anywhere else that there’s a risk of water damage.

The New York Times has an article about competition between ebook readers and doesn’t even mention the Sony Reader!

The British Library has acquired the archive of J. G. Ballard for it’s …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

A new eBook reader developed especially for textbooks, the Kno, is set for a beta program this fall according to mashable.com.  This is a heavyweight eReader at 5.5 pounds!  That’s still lighter than the textbooks it aims to replace though.

The Duke University libraries are now lending Kindles to faculty, staff and students.  I’ve also read about a public library in the US that allows Kindles to be checked out.  If you live nearby to someplace that lends Kindles and you qualify, it might be a good way to try before you buy.

The New Yorker has picked their latest “20 under 40” list of fiction authors.  I’ve only heard of one of them before.

Starting this Sunday, Kindles are going to be sold at all Target stores according to Publishers Weekly.  This seems like a …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

We have two winners to announce today.  The winner of a signed paperback copy of The Betrayal by Pati Nagle is…Sullivan McPig   and the winner of the ebook copy of Many Paths by Pati Nagle is…buddyt.  Congratulations to both of you!  We will be contacting you shortly.  Thanks for participating in the contest.  Enjoy your books!BookExpo America (BEA) took place this week in New York.  I wish I could have gone, but I couldn’t so I followed the twitter hashtag #BEA10.  eBookNewser put together a roundup post on this year’s BEA here.  Publishers Weekly reports that next year BEA will return to a three day event.

Since last month, Penguin and Amazon have been trying to work out an agreement on ebook prices.  It looks like they accomplished that according to a post at GalleyCat.  This is good …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

In Book Lovers Inc news, we have a winner to announce for the Sara Brookes Giveaway.  Moonsanity is the winner of an ebook copy of Midnight’s Ghost by Sara Brookes.  Congrats, Moonsanity!  You’ll be hearing from us soon.  Enjoy your book!

Publishers Weekly sent out a very eye-catching tweet this morning about a science fiction writer offering cash for readers.  I had to click on that link being a science fiction reader.  It is an interesting article at guardian.co.uk about writer Peter Riley who is hoping to attract attention that will lead to a publisher for his novel.  I haven’t looked at the book, but his method for finding a publisher seems…novel.

The Moby Awards for the Best and Worst book trailers were awarded last night.  Here is the link to the winners.  Book trailers = watching a …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Borders.com announced their eBook store will be opening in June with ebooks available for a variety of devices.  They are also offering the Kobo ereader for preorder at $149.99 (US).

Borders Australia online has started offering a guarantee that they will beat the price (with shipping included) of Amazon.com books shipped to Australia.

Wired.com has an interesting article on how Amazon handles typos in Kindle eBooks.

Angry Robot Books has split from HarperCollins UK.

Variety reports that Tyra Banks has a three book deal for a young adult fantasy series.

GalleyCat reports that Gerald Posner has hired a lawyer to fight against claims of plaigarism.

Publishers Weekly writes that the Amazon Kindle bestseller list will soon split into two as Amazon makes separate bestseller lists for free and paid eBooks.

PublishingPerspectives has a short article about books being …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

In ebook news this weekSony’s Reader Store has had over ten million books downloaded, Sony announced in a press release yesterday. The top ten most downloaded books in their ebook store are:

1. “The Lost Symbol,” by Dan Brown2. “I, Alex Cross,” by James Patterson3. “Breaking Dawn,” by Stephenie Meyer4. “Eclipse,” by Stephenie Meyer5. “The Help,” by Kathryn Stockett6. “Twilight,” by Stephenie Meyer7. “New Moon,” by Stephenie Meyer8. “The Lovely Bones,” by Alice Sebold9. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” by Stieg Larsson 10. “The Last Song,” by Nicholas Sparks

It looks like the Twilight crowd is into eReaders!Barnes & Noble tweeted about a new HP ebook store and ereader available for HP computers.Book News Related to the Flooding in Nashville, Tennessee (USA)Romance Writers of America (RWA) had to move their 2010 Annual Conference to Orlando after the conference …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

The Wall Street Journal has the latest on the agency pricing dispute between Penguin and Amazon.  Looks like Amazon is selling some non-bestseller Penguin hardcovers for $9.99.

Amazon announced a new update for their Kindle that will allow users to organize their books and allow sharing “book passages” from the Kindle to Twitter and Facebook.The Romantic Times Booklovers Convention is currently taking place in Ohio.  I wish I was there, but I’ve had to settle for following along on Twitter.  The hashtags #RT10 and #RT2010 are giving me a glimpse of what I’m missing.  Laura Bush’s memoir, Spoken From the Heart, was obtained early by the NY Times breaking a Scribner embargo.  Crown Publishers made public that they will be publishing former President George W. Bush’s memoir, Decision Points, this November.MediaNet announced they will expand from digital music …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

This week Best Buy began selling Barnes & Noble’s eReader, the Nook, in it’s stores.

The Wall Street Journal reported that, starting Sunday, the Amazon eReader, the Kindle, will be sold by Target stores.

All Things Digital is reporting that Kakai is working on an eReader for students.

The Associated Press has a story on author Danielle Steele’s former assistant being sentenced to prison for embezzling. The assistant was earning $200,000 a year for part-time work and was convicted for embezzling over $760,000 USD.

Penguin announced a new program this week to provide electronic and print books to children. The website is www.wegivebooks.org/.

The list of Locus Awards Finalists were released this week. It looks like a great list. I’ve read some of the titles and already have others on my TBR list. …