The SFWA (Science Fiction Writers of America) have announced the nominees for the 2011 Nebula Awards.The awards are voted on by members of the association to honor the best of the year’s work in speculative fiction. The winners will be announced at SFWA’s 47th Annual Nebula Awards Weekend, to be held Thursday through Sunday, May [...]
THQ and the Random House Publishing Group, announced today that an original novel set in the Darksiders universe will be published by Random House’s Del Rey imprint in May 2012. Darksider: The Abomination Valut, written by author Ari Marmell, will take place millennia before the events of the first game of the Darksiders series. Random [...]
Charla Krupp, a popular author and commentator on fashion and beauty whose best-sellers included “How Not to Look Old” and “How to Never Look Fat Again,” has died at age 58. Krupp’s husband, Richard Zoglin, said she died Monday of breast cancer at their home in Manhattan. Krupp made numerous television appearances over the years. [...]
Amazon has announced the top 10 best-selling books of 2011 overall (print and Kindle combined). “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson, “Bossypants” by Tina Fey and “A Stolen Life” by Jaycee Dugard take the top three spots on the list. “The Mill River Recluse” by Darcie Chan and “The Abbey” by Chris Culver come in at [...]
Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography has topped Amazon’s bestselling book list for 2011, a new chart shows. Amazon has not said how many copies of the title it has sold so far, but the achievement is significant just based on the length of time the book has been available. It only went on sale October [...]
HTML5 is the first major upgrade of the web, implemented just in time to meet the demands of an imminent surge in connectivity. According to industry leaders at the HTML5 Live conference in New York City last month, there will be 15 billion connected devices by 2015 and 50 billion by 2020. Now HTML5 communication [...]
Steve Carell is attached to star in Universal Pictures’ Lunatics, based on the upcoming Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel novel, reports Deadline. The novel will be hit shevels on January 10. Plot Philip Horkman is a happy man-the owner of a pet store called The Wine Shop, and on Sundays a referee for kids’ soccer. [...]
Amazon has announced that David Baldacci, Amanda Hocking and Stephenie Meyer are the latest authors to join the Kindle Million Club, selling over 1 million paid copies of their books in the Kindle Store . They join 11 other authors in the Kindle Million Club: Stieg Larsson, James Patterson, Nora Roberts, Charlaine Harris, Lee Child, [...]
Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs has just gone live as an e-book ahead of its official October 24 unveiling. In unintentional irony, Steve Jobs has arrived first in the US on the Kindlerather than the iBookstore. Apple’s store is already making it available in Europe (iBookstore UK). The book is one of the quickest [...]
Que Publishing has released several new iOS instructional books that cover Apple’s latest mobile operating system. Titles include: Your iPad 2 at Work, My iPhone: Fifth Edition, iPad & iPhone Tips & Tricks, and more. The company has also announced that all iOS 5 books can currently be purchased at a 30 percent dissent, and [...]
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