One thing is certain about Google’s fall event: A Pixel will steal the show. It just might not be the one that fits in your pocket.A rumor published by Android Police says Google is working on a follow-up to its discontinued 2nd-generation Chromebook Pixel, which hasn’t been available for purchase since mid-2016. A new model would be a pleasant surprise for fans of the Google laptop, which was hailed at the time as the best Chromebook ever made. The third model could be the charm that brings premium Chrome devices mainstream.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Continue reading at 'PC World'
[ PC World | 2017-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Elaine Kendall was a longtime book critic for the Los Angeles Times. She died in Montecito at age 91. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-08-12 22:46:20 UTC ]
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Penguin Books UK is publishing all four of J D Salinger’s works as e-books for the first time, as part of celebrations marking the centenary of his birth. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-12 05:42:10 UTC ]
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Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt (Picador) is now dizzingly close to a Weekly E-Book Ranking chart record no-one could have predicted, as it claims its 18th weekly number one. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-02 05:52:23 UTC ]
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The Amazon review for my debut novel was glowing, including words like “compelling” and “fun.” And then there was this: “If you love historical fiction, you’ll love The Last Book Party.” Say what? How could my novel, which is set during the 1980s—a decade of my own youth—be historical fiction?... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2019-08-01 11:00:53 UTC ]
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Two hundred years ago, Herman Melville was born and the course of American literary history changed forever. In celebration of the author’s bicentennial, Chronicle Books published Moby-Dick: A Pop-Up Book from the Novel by Herman Melville, which shows ten key moments from the story in... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-08-01 08:48:17 UTC ]
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W. Somerset Maugham’s 1928 novel is thought to be the first modern espionage novel. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-07-31 17:07:29 UTC ]
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The Manson girls drift their way through the new movie ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD. These books help provide more context on who they really were. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2019-07-31 10:37:36 UTC ]
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The 2019 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award shortlist is dominated by Irish authors with former winner and Booker Prize longlistee Kevin Barry and relative newcomers Danielle McLaughlin and Louise Kennedy in the running for the £30,000 prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-29 11:15:23 UTC ]
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The romance genre has all but disappeared from films, so now several cable and streaming outlets have claimed it for themselves. The latest to jump on board is Amazon Prime Video. The streaming service will soon air Modern Love, a new anthology series debuting Oct. 18 that features eight... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2019-07-28 00:59:10 UTC ]
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[caption id="attachment_162887" align="alignright" width="150"] Dana Rosen[/caption] Time named Dana Rosen as its new chief legal officer, effective July 29. As CLO—which CEO and editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal identified in a statement as a top priority position to fill since the magazine... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-07-25 18:40:50 UTC ]
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The New York Times books section today featured a lovely profile by J. D. Biersdorfer of Birchbark Books & Native Arts, the Minneapolis bookstore owned by National Book Award-winning writer Louise Erdrich which provides indigenous-language guides, literature and crafts, alongside the latest... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-07-25 17:50:55 UTC ]
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When I took my copy of Lemony Snicket’s The Carnivorous Carnival up to the check-out line at Barnes and Noble, the cashier flipped through the book and paused. She was sorry, she said, after a couple more puzzled page flips. There appeared to be a misprint. She called an employee in the kid’s... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2019-07-24 11:00:17 UTC ]
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THE TRAGEDY OF THIS slim, self-satisfied little memoir about the 2007–2008 financial crisis is not what it gets wrong. Indeed, four of its central arguments are important and exactly right: (1) that extraordinary measures and creative innovation and improvisation saved the entire financial... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-07-22 19:00:44 UTC ]
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I’m back with more fragrances and Harry Potter characters! If you missed round one, be sure to check it out. ... Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2019-07-20 10:31:12 UTC ]
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[caption id="attachment_81710" align="alignright" width="150"] Keith Grossman[/caption] Time appointed Keith Grossman as its new president in an effort to build out its leadership team, following the sale of the magazine to Marc and Lynne Benioff from Meredith Corp. last September. Starting... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-07-18 16:48:42 UTC ]
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Welcome to the latest edition of Ad Age Publisher’s Brief, our roundup of news from the world of content producers across digital and print. Got a tip? Send it our way. Joining us late? Here’s the previous edition. A private word: Back in April, The New York Times announced the launch of... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-07-17 18:51:36 UTC ]
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As publishers vie to persuade us to pack their titles for the holidays, we chart the evolution of the ’beach read’Summer reads, beach reads, holiday reads … at this time of year, the publishing world works itself into a sweat trying to force its novels into our carry-on luggage, or over the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-07-14 07:00:23 UTC ]
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Book Riot has talked about the best comic book artists working today and what makes a great cover in general. ... Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2019-07-12 10:35:23 UTC ]
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If you see advertisements for a mall that look like they came straight out of the '80s on today's print edition of The New York Times, fire up Google Lens. Those neon-colored ads are most likely for Starcourt, the fictional Hawkins, Indiana mall that... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2019-07-11 13:00:00 UTC ]
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