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Jeff Bezos’ wife may not have liked The Everything Store, but the judges in the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award for 2013 did, choosing it as their book of the year. In presenting the award to author Jeff Stone in a ceremony in London, Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times and chair of the panel of judges, called The Everything Store, “an inspirational business book which captures the culture of Amazon and the character of its founder Jeff Bezos. A must-read for disrupters around the world." more » »
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NYU, Experts Debate Future of the Book Familiar topics, for those who work in book publishing, were addressed at an NYU Media Talk Monday night. The event, a panel called The Future of the Book organized by the college's Alumni Affairs Office and the Center for Publishing, was focused, as moderator Michael Cader (who founded Publisher's Lunch) said, on the "near term" future of the titular object, or the next one to three years. more »
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Fifty Years
Since JFK : A half a century after John F. Kennedy's
assassination, are there still more stories to tell? A slew of new books argues
yes.
Selfie is OED's
Word of the Year : Ubiquitous noun for social media
self-portraits faces down newly discovered cute mammal the olinguito in annual
contest.
Old Chinese
Novel Is Racy Reading Still: David Tod Roy completes his nearly
40-year effort to bring the complete text of The Plum in the Golden Vase
into English translation.
Here's Waldo:
Impress your friends and humiliate your children using Slate’s foolproof
strategy for finding the missing man.
Why So Serious?:
Reimagining the author photo.
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