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• Books Now Outnumber Games in the iTunes App Store
10 Mar 2010 at 3:00pm
 Apple's iTunes App store is a growing source for content. People download a wide variety of apps from navigation tools to shopping aids, but they also buy games and books on iTunes. Mobclix reports that the number of book apps on iTunes now outnumbers the number of games. You can see the latest chart here, which shows there are nearly 27,000 book apps on iTunes.
Penguin's digital publisher, Jeremy Ettinghausen, told the Guardian that most of the books listed on iTunes are free downloads. Ettinghausen also says "it's very easy to produce books for the iPhone" which helps explain why books outnumber games on iTunes.
Apple is hoping that when the iPad goes on sale on April 3rd more people will start buying books from iTunes.com. You can read more about how the iPad can be used as an ebook reader here.
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• B&N To Test Book Bundles That Include Ebook and Printed Book
9 Mar 2010 at 3:00pm
Publishers Weekly is reporting that Barnes & Noble is considering a plan to bundle print books and ebooks. The digital and print book bundles will launch in about 60 to 90 days. The plan was announced by Barnes & Noble.com president William Lynch at the AAP annual meeting.
Publishers Weekly also reports that William Lynch predicts there will be less bookstores in the future but they won't completely go away.
While he predicted there will be fewer bookstores in the future, he said bookstores will never go away, agreeing with "interviewer" David Young of Hachette Book Group that bookstores are where bestsellers are made, particularly for books that are put in the front of the store.
The bookstores that remain will have to find ways to keep customer foot traffic high if they want to continue to be the place where "bestsellers are made."
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• Geoffrey Fletcher Wins Best Adapted Screenplay
8 Mar 2010 at 11:00am
Geoffrey Fletcher stands next to his Oscar backstage during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre. Geoffrey Fletcher won Best Adapted Screenplay for his adpation of the novel Push by Sapphire. He is the first African American screenwriter to win an Academy Award. Fletcher beat out favorites Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner who wrote the script for Up in the Air. Fletcher is also an adjunct professor of film at Columbia University and NYU.
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire was nominated in six categories and won two Oscars. The second Oscar went to actress Mo'Nique, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as an abusive mother.
You can find more coverage of the Oscars, including fashion coverage, on our sister site ShoppingBlog.com's Oscar section.
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• Why People Hate Dave Eggers
5 Mar 2010 at 3:00pm
The Awl wants to know why so many people hate Dave Eggers. Maria Bustillos did a Google search for the most hated authors and what she found was surprising. While there were only two results for "I Hate Jonathan Franzen" (which is amazing, considering how annoying he is), there are 3888 results for "I Hate Dave Eggers."
Part of the hate accruing to Dave Eggers is undoubtedly due to crab-bucket syndrome, which is when there are a lot of rivals, e.g., writers who are struggling after success in the form of TED prizes and screenplay commissions, and then one of them actually succeeds, and the rest of his fellow-strivers and former comrades attempt to yank him back down again. In the case of Eggers this is commonly depicted as not just envy, but more like a sense that the litterati just ought to have a better representative. Better, somehow, in some way, than this seemingly self-promoting impresario.
As well, a great divide opened between youngs and olds on the issue of Eggers when Where the Wild Things Are finally emerged. Us olds don't just detest twee, childish sentimentality. We would douse it in kerosene and throw a match on it, if we could.
So wh... ( cont'd )
• J.K. Rowling Turns Down Oscar Invitation
4 Mar 2010 at 12:00pm
J.K. Rowling turned down the Oscars producers' invitation to present the award for Best Adapted Screenplay with Twilight author Stephenie Meyer. Jo said that she's too busy writing her next book to make the trip.
Rowling writes on her website, "You won't be hearing from me often I am afraid, as pen and paper is my priority at the moment."
The movies nominated for the screenplay award are In the Loop (Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche), District 9 (Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell), Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire (Geoffrey Fletcher), An Education (Nick Hornby) and Up In The Air (Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner).
Stephenie has reportedly accepted the offer, but it's not clear who she will be presenting with.
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• Salman Rushdie Planning to Write About Years in Hiding Because of Fatwa
2 Mar 2010 at 6:00pm
Salman Rushdie is finally planning on writing
about the decade he spent under a fatwa of death issued by Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini. The fatwa was issued because Rushdie wrote The Satanic Verses.
"It's my story, and at some point, it does need to be told. That point is getting closer, I think," he told reporters at Emory University in Atlanta, where an exhibition of his personal correspondence, notebooks, photographs, drawings and manuscripts is set to open on Friday. "When [the archive material] was in cardboard boxes and dead computers, it would have been very, very difficult, but now it's all organised," he said.
Last year marked 20 years since the Iranian leader called for Rushdie's execution, saying that his novel The Satanic Verses insulted Islam, Mohammed and the Qur'an. The edict, which followed street protests and book burnings across the Muslim world, forced Rushdie to go into hiding under police protection for almost 10 years.
We do hope he gets on with it, as we are most interested to read it. Rushdie's next novel is called Luka and the Fire of Life. A sequel to the children's story Haroun and the Sea of Stories, the book will be ... ( cont'd )
• John Grisham to Write Children's Series
26 Feb 2010 at 12:00pm
Bestselling author John Grisham is going to write a series of books for kids. The first book, Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer, will be published by Penguin Young Readers Group in May. Grisham's agent David Gernert explained to Publishers Weekly why Grisham went with a different publisher for the children's series.
"Since children's books is a completely different area of publishing than adult, and since John had never experienced any publishing in the children's area, we went out and spoke to a very, very small number of people we felt were particularly good at children's books," said Gernert, adding that Random House, Grisham's adult publisher, was in the mix. "We tried to figure out who had the vision for launching Theo that most matched John's, and it ended up being Penguin and Don Weisberg."
The New York Times says Doubleday will still publish Grisham's new legal thriller for adults, which will be out in October.
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• J.K. Rowling Adamantly Denies Plagiarism Charges
23 Feb 2010 at 6:00pm
J.K. Rowling is furious over what she says is a totally absurd plagiarism lawsuit. The lawsuit claims that she stole the idea of Harry Potter from a deceased author named Adrian Jacobs. The estate found out that the statute of limitations had not run, so it filed suit. The lawsuit claims that in 1987 Jacobs submitted to Bloomsbury a number of stories about Willy the Wizard. Bloomsbury rejected the stories.
Jacobs' family members filed a lawsuit last June, claiming Rowling's 2000 book Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire steals segments of the writer's novel The Adventures of Willy the Wizard - No 1 Livid Land.
Rowling was named as a defendant in the lawsuit on Wednesday after the trustee of Jacobs' estate, Paul Allen, realised the time limit to sue the writer had not run out.
But Rowling has moved quickly to slam the accusation, insisting she has never even read Jacobs' book and will be applying to have the claim dismissed immediately.
In a statement, she says: "The fact is I had never heard of the author or the book before the first accusation by those connected to the author's estate in 2004; I have certainly never read the book.
"The claims that ar... ( cont'd )
• Apple's Ebook Pricing Secret
22 Feb 2010 at 3:00pm
There have been many articles written about Apple's plans to sell ebooks on the new iPad for around $14.99, which is $5 more than the average Kindle price of $9.99. The New York Times reports that it has uncovered a dirty little secret in Apple's deal with several major book publishers: if a book becomes a bestseller, the book's price may drop to $9.99.
[A]ccording to at least three people with knowledge of the discussions, who spoke anonymously because of the confidentiality of the talks, Apple inserted provisions requiring publishers to discount e-book prices on best sellers -- so that $12.99-to-$14.99 range was merely a ceiling; prices for some titles could be lower, even as low as Amazon's $9.99. Essentially, Apple wants the flexibility to offer lower prices for the hottest books, those on one of the New York Times best-seller lists, which are heavily discounted in bookstores and on rival retail sites. So, for example, a book that started at $14.99 would drop to $12.99 or less once it hit the best-seller lists.
Moreover, for books where publishers offer comparable hardcover editions at a price below the typical $26, Apple wanted e-book prices to ... ( cont'd )
• Oscar Snub: Author of Up in the Air Denied Oscar Ticket
18 Feb 2010 at 12:00pm
Walter Kirn hasn't been invited to the Oscars and he's not happy. He's the author of that novel that was turned into the film Up in the Air starring George Clooney. Up in the Air has been nominated for no less than six Oscars, but Walter wasn't invited. He has been tweeting his disappointment over the snub. But he still wishes the film good luck.
caution to writers: don't expect that because you write a novel that becomes an Oscar-nominated film that you'll be invited to the Oscars
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Novelists are like oil in H'wood: they drill us, pipeline us, pump us and then burn us.
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sincerely wishes Up in the Air the best at the Oscars, all other matters aside, because art is art and the movie is art, he thinks
A Paramount rep told The New York Post that it is still hoping for more tickets to the Oscars for the film:
"The Academy has a process that we are following and we are respectfully waiting for them to allocate additional tickets. Of course, Walter Kirn is on our wish list for seats, as are producers and executive producers of our film who do not have seats yet."
This is ridiculous.
Kirn wrote the book which was turned into a film that's up for ... ( cont'd )
• James Cameron is Writing an Avatar Prequel
17 Feb 2010 at 6:00pm
 Director James Cameron is writing an Avatar novel. The novel will act as a prequel to the Avatar movie that has made over $2 billion and won the U.S. box office six weeks in a row. Jon Landau, Avatar producer, told MTV news that the novel will act like a prequel.
"It would be something that would lead up to telling the story of the movie, but it would go into much more depth about all the stories that we didn't have time to deal with - like the schoolhouse and Sigourney [Weaver's character] teaching at the schoolhouse; Jake on Earth and his backstory and how he came here; [the death of] Tommy, Jake's brother; and Colonel Quaritch, how he ended up there and all that," Landau explained.
Although Cameron has extensive writing credentials, including the screenplays for everything from the first two "Terminator" films to "Titanic," the "Avatar" prequel would mark his debut as a novelist.
"I don't think Jim has ever written a novel before, but his first step of writing a script is often in a novella format," Landau said. "So this is just expanding that, and I think that he'll be very adept at it."
We are surprised James Cameron that is he is writing the b... ( cont'd )
• Roger Ebert's Inspiring Life After Cancer
16 Feb 2010 at 3:00pm
Esquire has an interesting article about what life is today for Roger Ebert. The reknowned film critic can longer eat, drink or spreak since he underwent a series of surgeries that included the removal of his lower jaw.
Roger Ebert can't remember the last thing he ate. He can't remember the last thing he drank, either, or the last thing he said. Of course, those things existed; those lasts happened. They just didn't happen with enough warning for him to have bothered committing them to memory - it wasn't as though he sat down, knowingly, to his last supper or last cup of coffee or to whisper a last word into Chaz's ear. The doctors told him they were going to give him back his ability to eat, drink, and talk. But the doctors were wrong, weren't they? On some morning or afternoon or evening, sometime in 2006, Ebert took his last bite and sip, and he spoke his last word.
Despite losing of ability to speak Roger Ebert is saying more than ever through his writing. He continues to write movie reviews and also has a blog for the Chicago Sun Times. Recently, he wrote a moving blog entry titled Nil by Mouth where he explains what he misses and doesn't miss ab... ( cont'd )
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