"I find way too many inaccuracies," MacKenzie Bezos writes in a critical Amazon.com review of a new book about the company her husband founded.The vast majority of the 45 Amazon.com customers who have reviewed Bloomberg Businessweek writer Brad Stone's new book, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Neil Gaiman is revealed as the final short story author of the Doctor Who stories. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
I’m grateful to MacKenzie and to every other thoughtful reviewer who shares their perspectives on my book and on this remarkable story. – Bloomberg Businessweek reporter and Jeff Bezos biographer Brad Stone, responding to a one-star review of his new book from MacKenzie Bezos, Jeff Bezos’s wife.... Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Asus has been in the tablet and keyboard dock game for a while now. After several generations of Android based tablet and keyboard dock combinations, the T100 brings the sometimes schizophrenic interface of Windows 8 to its logical home on a hybrid tablet/notebook. The tablet looks and feels... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Women's Prize for Fiction winner A M Homes and Man Booker-longlisted Richard House are among... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-book start-up Zola Books has secured $5.1m in seed funding, with prominent individual investors... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Edinburgh University Press has acquired the business and publishing assets of Dundee University... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bestselling French author Gerard de Villiers, who died on Thursday, is now getting a posthumous crack at the U.S. market. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former children's laureate Michael Rosen is to play a leading role in developing an MA in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jaques Ferrandez is beloved and celebrated in France yet practically unknown in the Anglo-Saxon world; his recent adaptation of 'L’Étranger' (The Stranger) has been a bestseller. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sheryl Sandberg helped Facebook post some insane numbers: after their IPO debacle of May 2012, shares have gone up 140% in the past year, to about $50. As Miguel Helft writes for Fortune, that's partly due to the company's reorganization around mobile, which critics once bashed them for being... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
BlackBerry has abandoned plans to sell itself and has instead found about $1 billion in new funds that it will use to try to turn its business around. The company is also planning far–reaching changes to management and will remove both its CEO Thorsten Heins and some directors. Heins is replaced... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins is releasing HarperCollins Unbound, a new, free app for Apple and Android smartphones that allows consumers to scan HarperCollins print books for additional digital content. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
PRH's Spanish-language publishing division Random House Mondadori has been renamed Penguin... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Effective January 1, Consortium, a member of the Perseus Books Group, will begin distributing titles for nonfiction publisher Nicholas Brealey. Consortium will handle U.S. and Canada distribution for Nicholas Brealey, which holds offices in both Boston and London. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
An audiobook version of Morrissey's Autobiography will be read by actor David Morrissey.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
You just know Amazon's been waiting forever for this cheeky product discount. But heck, if it means not having to buy a $20 Dan Brown book before rushing to catch a flight, we'll take it. In celebration of the FAA easing its personal electronic device restrictions (not to mention Delta and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins will publish the filmscript of "Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa". Anna... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The journalist who broke, and continues to break, the NSA Snowden leaks may be off to Greenwald–ier pastures with the launch of his exciting new journalism venture, but on Friday the Guardian published an incredible NSA explainer that breaks down and visualizes some of the newest, and most... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
I have looked at a lot of different views of Earth from space -- taken by astronauts, satellites and other spacecraft -- so I was not expecting to be all that impressed by the images collected into a new book called Earth from Space. But I was very wrong. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]