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British critic and literary editor suggests that one of the reasons for the shrinking print media coverage of books in the US is the dull book reviewing.  William Skidelesky says “book reviewing in [Britain] is in fairly robust health . . .  A lively chatter surrounds the British book scene, of which newspaper review sections [...]

For Valentine’s Day, Sony is offering its eReading Device with a pink “Cross Your Heart” Skinit covering and 14 free Harlequin ebooks.
“Cross Your Heart” reminds me of Playtex bras and is probably one of the more unfortunate slogans Sony could come up with for its female crowd, along with the suggestion that librarians aren’t sexy.

Dear Ms. Brook:
Thank you for sharing your book with me. As you know, I’ve always thought you were a tremendous writer and I appreciate that you bring to the genre an unusual pairing of individuals. In Demon Angel, it was the halfling demon, Lilith, and the honorable knight, Hugh. In Demon Moon, it was the [...]

A Columbia University sociologist Duncan Watts a long-time opponent of Malcolm Gladwell’s “Tipping Point” theory, has published a piece showing with empirical and computer simulated tests that the Gladwell’s hypothesis is inaccurate.
The ‘Tipping Point’ phenomenon has been used by marketers and advertisers to target individual influencers of opinion.   Watts says that “Almost all of [...]

Janine: My friend Jennie F. and I had so much fun doing a conversational review of Jane Lockwood’s Forbidden Shores that we decided to do it again. Lo and behold, the subject of this discussion is also a novel about an erotic entanglement that involves two men and a woman! This time, it’s Megan [...]

In one of the most positive things to come out of Savage Gate, heavyweight authors Bertrice Small, Roberta Gellis and Jennifer Blake will be teaching a new seminar at the 2008 Romantic Times about writing a historical without plagiarism.
While the change has not yet appeared on the RT BookLovers Convention webpage, Bitchery reader Kay has [...]

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle is Oprah’s newest book club pick. Apparently, Oprah is not satisfied with foisting one schlocky self improvement book on us or the public hasn’t done a good enough job of remaking their lives to her satisfaction because she is going to “co-teach” a [...]