http://www.bookninja.com The deadliest book site on the web. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:26:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just when you thought Jimi Hendrix couldn't get any cooler, you find out he was a sci-fi buff.... And sticking with rock stars, Zepp fans are pissed over £445 picture book Dude says he can guess your book preferences once you tell him what tv shows you watch... I guess this means ... http://www.bookninja.com/?p=8635 This is a shame and has been painful to watch unfold the last year or so. The gutting of the periodical fund is not only hurting a bunch of bigger mags, many of which can presumably pick up the slack by adding more perfume samples, but it's virtually killing the ... http://www.bookninja.com/?p=8633 The Wall Street Journal is starting a book section. The Wall Street Journal is set to launch a book review in the next few weeks, even as newspapers across the country cut back on book coverage. The new weekly section will be the Journal's first one dedicated solely to ... http://www.bookninja.com/?p=8630 Shocking, I know. Here he is interviewed about "the future of the book". Will you mourn the loss of the physical book if eBooks become the dominant format? It doesn’t fill me with quite the degree of horror and sorrow that it seems to fill many of my friends. For one ... http://www.bookninja.com/?p=8627 My life continues to interfere with my ability to conduct my life. Please forgive and watch for a revival. Should swearing be allowed in kids books? Why all the hubbub over Franzen coverage--are people judging the book or the man? Is stealing from Wikipedia plagiarism? How can we make Wikipedia more reliable? How do you ... http://www.bookninja.com/?p=8625 The Booker Shortlist keeps Donoghue, but misses Moore. Carey and McCarthy also make the cut. Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber and Faber) Emma Donoghue Room (Picador - Pan Macmillan) Damon Galgut In a Strange Room (Atlantic Books - Grove Atlantic) Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury) Andrea Levy The Long Song (Headline Review - Headline Publishing ... http://www.bookninja.com/?p=8622 This is awesome. Some Chilean artists dropped 100,000 poetry bookmarks over Berlin. Of course, here we'd have Fox news calling them terrorists, but there people have this thing called "Fringenfrugenbeshupenfutzleintien", which roughly translates to "common sense". Lasting for half an hour, the initiative was intended as a protest against war ... http://www.bookninja.com/?p=8618 It seems we're doing a lot of frettin' these days. What was/is/will be a book? It's old news, man. People have been fretting about this shit forever. When books first arrived people didn't know what to make of them Tech-savvy kids today don't really get this "reading" from a "book" thing Is the ... http://www.bookninja.com/?p=8616 Scholastic revamps marketing to create whole new ways of selling plastic shit, video games, and TV tie-in books to unsuspecting kids Dancing with the Stars doesn't mean dancing with authors 35 million books downloaded via iTunes? Can the book survive the academy? Guardian runs with its Not the Booker Prize again Arts investment turn-around finally ... http://www.bookninja.com/?p=8614 Canadian Tim Lilburn joins Irishman Colm Toíbín and American Chase Twitchell in picking the best of the best in poetry, or whatever you think of that whole process, next spring. Thoughts? I think it looks like a good list of judges. http://www.bookninja.com/?p=8612