Tag Archives: book news

Bookish Intelligence Report

14 Dec
  • How to learn to love reading (via Ottawa Citizen)
  • Author of The Bookseller of Kabul cleared of invasion of privacy (via Guardian)
  • What do you think, should you say ‘see ya’ to your local bookstore and shop online (via Slate)
  • Bookshelf etiquette (via Telegraph)
  • Top 10 biz books of the year (via Globe and Mail)
  • Hopes for village run library in UK are dashed (via BBC)
  • Astoria’s only indie bookstore to close (via New York Daily News)
  • Far-right author in Italy kills two men, then himself (via Sydney Morning Herald)
  • Did Somali pirates burn man’s books (via Hampton Roads.com)
  • Book sales spike this holiday season, but can it be sustained (via Time)

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Battle Rattle Books

12 Dec
  • Reflexive Fire author Jack Murphy and Brandon Webb, co-author of The 21st Century Sniper, offer signed editions (via Kit Up!)
  • Author gets behind the gun to prepare novel (via Youtube)
  • Review of Pearl Harbor Christmas (via Cleveland.com)
  • An illustrated look at OBL take-down (via GQ)
  • Combat Paper Project aims to heal through arts (via Daily Illini)
  • US Army signals officer pens her first novel (via KDHNews)
  • Review of Pacific Crucible (via Journal Star)
  • Used books from PA library end up in Afghanistan (via Times Leader)
  • Review of Praetorian (via Garstang Courier)
  • What military themed library books are popular with kids (via  School Library Journal)
  • Army behavioral specialist writes science-fiction novel while deployed to Iraq (Loudon Times)

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Bookish Intelligence Report

12 Dec
  • Books planned to mark 50th anniversary of Civil Rights Act (via AP)
  • Professor in Rochester, NY collects book for Nigerian home (via Democrat and Chronicle)
  • Not just a simple top ten list, but 32 top books of 2011 (via Seattle Times)
  • Books with a local touch from Cincinnati (via Cincinnati.com)
  • Folk tales of Afghanistan help educate a new generation of girls (via Washington Post)
  • Library circulation desk draws attention (via FDLReporter)
  • Some last minute books as gifts ideas (via Daily Herald)
  • 2,000 pop-up books donated to UNH (via Fosters Daily Democrat)
  • Pair of books prompt questions about Amsterdam’s Jewish community (via Ha’aretz)
  • Oxford University Press changes position on publishing certain controversial books (via Inside Higher Ed)
  • $1million given to New Zealand authors to boost profile internationally (via Voxy)
  • Book about lavish lifestyle of terrorist wife (via The Australian)

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Bookish Intelligence Report

9 Dec
  • Wherever the campaigns go, book sales are close behind (via WSJ)
  • Forest City, Iowa loses another bookstore (via Globe Gazette)
  • E-books prove popular at Kalamazoo library system (via MLive.com)
  • Christmas tree made out of books (via LA Times)
  • According to Amazon, the book biz is booming (via Reuters)
  • UK shuttered cinema reopens as library (via BBC)
  • Some hockey books sure to please the puck fan (via Chronicle Herald)
  • Notable authors pick their top books of 2011 (via Salon)
  • How cheap classics undercut new books (via Guardian)
  • Need last minute gardening book ideas for the green thumb of the house (via Detroit News)
  • New Massachusetts library aims to be green (via Westwood Patch)
  • When comic book legends go to war over politics (via Sydney Morning Herald)
  • Aussie bookstore fails, resurrected by former employee (via Melbourne Leader)
  • Bookstore in Jerusalem, harassed for immodesty, bows to pressure (via Care2)
  • Review of book chronicling the London riots (via  Telegraph)
  • Voices unheard from the Middle East, the gay community (via Le Monde- in French)

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Spine Design

7 Dec
  • Opening the doors on Dior for new book (via NY Times)
  • Architectural eye candy in coffee table book suggestions (via Detroit News)
  • Get inside the Berlin homes of creative professionals in new book (via Wallpaper.com)
  • Bringing some epic design sensibilities to print (via Daily Yomiuri)
  • Art book holiday recommendations (via Guardian)
  • Eyewear fashion hits pages of fresh title (via Monsters and Critics)
  • Rock n Roll celebs in new photography book (via Hollywood Today)
  • Best photo book of 2011 (via JSOnline)
  • The art of the Korean book world (via Korea Herald)
  • Will some hyper designed book covers aid in sales (via NY Times)

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Bookish Intelligence Report

7 Dec
  • Barre Books in Vermont to shutter (via Times Argus)
  • Sci-fi author Fred Saberhagen donates papers to Illinois university (via Chicago Sun Times)
  • Four books sure to appeal to movie lovers (via Christian Science Monitor)
  • Some indie bookstores are surviving the bibliophilic retail bare-knuckle fight (via Oak Park)
  • A trio of books about Detroit (via Detroit News)
  • We agree with this Georgia columnist sentiments, It’s not Christmas without books (via Rockdale Citizen)
  • Mexican presidential candidate stumped to name three books that influenced him (via NZ Herald)
  • Another observation that GOP field heavily shilling books (via ABC News)
  • Publisher of new Poe book defends author against claims of stolen content (via CBS News)
  • Amanda Knox maneuvering for book deal (via Atlantic Wire)

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Battle Rattle Books

5 Dec
  • New coloring/activity book aimed at helping wounded vets (via US Army)
  • History book picks include 100 weapons from the past (via The Globe and Mail)
  • Medal of Honor recipient picks his top books on war (via The Week)
  • Novelists and USO go down range in support of troops (via SLO Tribune)
  • Battles and move as pivots of history (via LA Times)
  • New book, Britain’s War Machine, takes new look at the David v. Goliath image of World War II (via Guardian)
  • Book paints portrait of key player in the lead up to invasion of Iraq (via Salon)
  • Author defends surrendering general officer in new title (via Chicago Tribune)
  • Actress, beauty and weapons inventor- Hedy Lamarr featured in book (via Winnipeg Free Press)
  • Discovery of a pistol owned by Hitler in author’s house prompts book (via Lake Forest Sun Times)
  • Naval aviator from the era of Top Gun pens own book on the period and the movie (via Pantagraph)
  • Military historian profiles British officer and ‘boffin’ (via Derry Journal)

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Bookish Intelligence Report

5 Dec
  • New book about war-time Lebanon with a pop-art look (via The National)
  • Some four million kids in UK don’t own a book (via Telegraph)
  • Irish bookseller chain axes employees (via Irish Independent)
  • Hardcover annotate Peter Pan (via Seattle Post Intelligencer)
  • Fiction picks for the holidays (via Guardian)
  • Holiday themed books not exclusive to kids reading (via Sacramento Bee)
  • Booksellers shifting to digital sales (via Calgary Herald)
  • Charleston library sets tasks of restoring old books (via Post & Courier)
  • Fahrenheit 451 goes digital, despite authors misgivings (via BBC)
  • Top books out in Kings County library (via Seattle Times)
  • Some favorite books from readers in Vancouver (via Vancouver Sun)
  • Also from Vancouver, more picks, this time from local notables (via Vancouver Sun)

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Bookish Intelligence Report

2 Dec
  • E-books in Europe struggling under tax structures (via New York Times)
  • France is ready for e-books from Hachette (via Reuters)
  • Love of gardening in print (via Toronto Star)
  • Are some books leaving the shelves at the NYPL (via Gothamist)
  • John Hinckley apparently is still fixated on late Pres. Reagan and assassinations, judging by a recent bookstore visit (via ABC News Go)
  • Strange package detonated by bomb squad in California was just books (via Sacramento Bee)
  • Add books to your holiday decor, like Wake Forest did (via MyFox8)
  • New book rolls out theory that bicycles helped liberate women (via Smithsonian)
  • Beirut Book Fair features books inspired by Arab Spring (via Daily Star)
  • UK man reportedly steals books to buy booze (via Scarborough Evening News)
  • Chimps need books too (via Washington Post)
  • Of the top books on the NY Times list, two penned by Ithacans (via Ithaca Journal)
  • Some book favs of 2011 from Brits (via Daily Mail)
  • From the country music perspective, what were the best music books of the year (via CMT)
  • A town known for its bookstores in Belgium (via Times Colonist)

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Bookish Intelligence Report

30 Nov
  • The ever growing Occupy London library (via Guardian)
  • Author of critical Lebron James book reportedly banned from Miami indie bookstore (via Miami New Times)
  • Banned and beloved, Judy Blume (via NPR)
  • What reading material sits atop the desk of Hawaii’s governor (via Civil Beat)
  • From the UK some bookish gifts for kids (via Telegraph)
  • Praising the critics (via WSJ)
  • News of another lost bookstore (via Patch)
  • Powerful women kill, according to Patricia Cornwell (via Telegraph)
  • Books are endangered species in Canada (via Canadian Business)
  • Toronto pol wonders about libraries getting too far away from books in tough budget times (via Toronto Star)
  • Scary ghost stories and Dickens influence (via Telegraph)
  • Memories of books past as NJ’s Atlantic Books closes(via Asbury Park Press)
  • Why books should be given as holiday gifts (via Fingal Independent)
  • PA bookseller weighs in on lack of collecting sales tax on online sales (via WGAL)
  • Argentine author worries about future of the word when gadgets rule who reads (via CBC)
  • Kentucky woman wants to replicate mini-free libraries found in Wisconsin (via Courier Journal)
  • Pitchapalooza arrives at NY bookstore (via Huntington Patch)

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