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Book banned after Christian complaint -New Zealand now has its first banned book in more than 20 years, Ted Dawe’s Into the River, which was named Book of the Year in 2013 at the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards. The ban is particularly troubling because the main character in ... more >
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The 4 Steps a Startup Used to ‘Book’ $200K in 2 Months – Tucker Max, author of I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, has created what seems to be a very successful new venture called Book in a Box, which claims to help people write a book in 12 ... more >
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Simon Pegg Worries The Love Of Science Fiction Is Making Us “Childish” – You may be following the very interesting conversation between Simon Pegg and i09, which began when Pegg gave an interview to Radio Times, in which he discussed what he sees as the “infantalization” of society, in part ... more >