News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Economist Paul Krugman says “Amazon’s Monopsony is Not O.K.” (New York Times) For an opposing view, read Matthew Yglesias’s “Amazon is doing the world… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books On My Fall To-Be-Read list. As usual, they aren’t in any kind of order. All of them will be published this fall, in October or November. Of course, there… Read more »
In the Dragon’s Eye is where I share the books I’ve got my acquisitive eye on: the ones I’m really excited about and hope to read and perhaps add to the hoard. I also link to “Waiting On” Wednesday, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. Cover links take you… Read more »
Patrick Rothfuss just announced a new book and revealed the cover: First things first: It’s not the third book in the Kingkiller Chronicle. It’s called The Slow Regard of Silent Things, it’s coming out on Oct. 28, and it’s a novella about Auri and the Underthing. Since she’s one of… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: The National Book Festival is moving off the Mall and into the Washington Convention… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Today is ‘Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day’. (I wish I could, but… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Man Booker 2013 shortlist titles The Man Booker 2013 shortlist was announced on Sept…. Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images It’s been hard to miss the biggest (indeed, almost the… Read more »
Top Ten Favorite New-To-Me Authors I Read In 2012 Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. I set myself a challenge this year to read more “new” books and authors — not necessarily newly published, but new to me — and I did,… Read more »
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss Series: Kingkiller Chronicle Published by DAW Books on March 27, 2007 Genres: Fantasy Pages: 662 Format: Audiobook Source: purchased Add to Goodreads Told in Kvothe’s own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the… Read more »
