Rare Book Room
The "Rare Book Room" site has been constructed as an educational site intended to allow the visitor to examine and read some of the great books of the world.Over the last decade, a company called "Octavo" digitally photographed some...

Book Oven
Bite-size Edits is an experiment in distributed and networked proofreading. We like to think of it as entertaining productive procrastination, all in the service of publishing books with no mistakes in them. First, writers upload or post their text to...

'Twitter' declared word of 2009
Global Language Monitor's vast survey of print and social media places Twitter ahead of Obama and H1N1 as most used wordAs world leaders prepare for the climate-change summit in Copenhagen and stock markets around the world get the Dubai shakes, a...

Silvia Ballestra firma I giorni della rotonda
Alternando i toni dissacratori e ironici di sempre a un incedere più amaramente assorto, con 'I giorni della rotonda', pubblicato recentemente da Rizzoli, Silvia Ballestra ci consegna un romanzo rivelatore delle troppe rimozioni della nostra...

Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert | Home
What would you do right now if you learned that you were going to die in ten minutes?

In the “too strange to make up category,” Julie Roehm is an IPA “Keynote Speaker!”
In the “you can’t make this shit up” arena, according to a press release from the IPA… Julie Roehm, former chief marketing officer at Wal-mart and DaimlerChrysler, will keynote the IPA Leadership Conference to be held February 4-6 in Scottsdale,...

Self Publishing Q&A with Adilah Barnes
Many have appreciated the quality of my book and have asked who my publisher is. I have referred others and one has a contract with Xlibris now. At the same time, I have also impressed on them the importance of double-checking the work and working...

Spotlight on Author Greg Pappas and SoulBound
Greg shares this success with his family and the people closest to him who give him inspiration. From them he has learned to receive and give unconditional love, always had a helping hand when he needed it, and found joy and happiness in his family. He...

How Twilight Works - The Oatmeal -
A few weeks ago I had the miserable experience of reading Twilight. A friend bought it for me and I took it with me to read on a long flight from Seattle to Houston. I knew it was going to be crappy, but I thought it would be a guilty pleasure kind of...

Dirty/Realistic
Top 50 books of first decade of 2000