Archive for the ‘Books’ Category

O! Irony - Favorite Blogs Collected in New Book

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Newsweek online this week has an amusing item about “Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks From the Wild Web,” a new book edited by Sarah Boxer, the first and now former web critic for the New York Times. Newsweek writer Brian Braiker asks, “‘W,’ you might ask, ‘TF’? To what end this dead-tree blogroll? ...

Penguin Launches Online Book Community for Teenagers

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Penguin Books Ltd has launched a new online book community for teenagers called Spinebreakers: Spinebreakers.co.uk is Penguin's pioneering online book community for teenagers, run by teenagers themselves. Editorial control of the site is in the hands of a core editorial team of nine teenagers aged between 13 and 18 years, supported ...

The Bible

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

Publishers Weekly has published an article about the trends of one of the world's all-time best sellers - The Bible. Bible sales are estimated between $425 million and $609 million. Events like 9/11 can cause a significant spike in sales but the Bible market as a whole has remained relatively ...

Joe Wilson of Xerox, One of the all-time greats

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Joe Wilson and the Creation of Xerox, a book written by Charles D. Ellis was reviewed by James Michaels of Forbes yesterday. Joe Wilson took over from his dad in the late 1940s. The 412, Xerox's first truly competitive product, would have to sell for $47,000 and was far too big ...