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An anonymous reader quotes a summary from Boing Boing, written by David Pescovitz: This year marked the 125th anniversary of the New York Times Book Review. To celebrate, the editors asked readers to nominate “the best book published” in those 125 year… Continue reading The Best Book of the Past 125 Years, According To NYT Book Review Readers
Libraries are successfully convincing state legislatures to help them win better terms for ebook licenses from Amazon and other publishers. From a report: Libraries say it is crucial for them to continue to service their communities, especially as digi… Continue reading Libraries Enlist States in Fight Over ebook Rules
The World Science Fiction Society has selected this year’s winners for their prestigious Hugo award.
The best novel award went to Network Effect, the fifth book in the Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells, which also won this year’s Hugo award f… Continue reading 2021’s Hugo Award Winners Include a Videogame, Plus Netflix and NBC Shows
For a limited time, I am selling signed copies of Click Here to Kill Everybody and Data and Goliath, both in paperback, for just $6 each plus shipping.
I have 500 copies of each book available. When they’re gone, the sale is over and the price will revert to normal.
Please be patient on delivery. It’s a lot of work to sign and mail hundreds of books. And the pandemic is causing mail slowdowns all over the world. I’ll send them out as quickly as I can, but I can’t guarantee any particular delivery date. Also, signed but not personalized books will arrive faster…
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Tonight CNBC interviewed science fiction luminary Neal Stephenson about his new “geoengineering climate change thriller” — and about his coining of the original term “metaverse.”
Author Neal Stephenson shot to fame almost 30 years ago with the s… Continue reading Neal Stephenson Discusses His New Climate Change Thriller – and Coining the Word ‘Metaverse’
A magnificent and surreal new bookstore has swung its doors open in China, inviting visitors to take a one-of-a-kind walk through space and time. Conceived by local firm X+Living, the Shenzhen Zhongshuge bookshop features a massive spiraling staircase … Continue reading Awe-inspiring bookstore spirals sideways through history and literature
Thoughtful gifts don’t have to cost an arm and a leg, whether they’re for home cooks, plant dads, streetwear buffs, or bougie babes. Continue reading The Best Gifts for Under $50
So apparently three Stanford professors are offering some tough-love to young people in the tech community. Mehran Sahami first worked at Google when it was still a startup (recruited to the company by Sergey Brin). Currently a Stanford CS professor, S… Continue reading New Book Warns CS Mindset and VC Industry are Ignoring Competing Values
[zorbash] came up with a great side project while designing a way to read notes and highlighted sections from e-books without having to use Good Reads or the Amazon tool: …read more Continue reading Unique Pomodoro Timer Displays Quotes While You Work
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Sophie Fornairon’s independent bookshop has survived the rise of Amazon thanks to a French law that prohibits price discounting on new books, but she says the e-commerce giant’s ability to undercut on s… Continue reading France Moves To Shield Its Book Industry From Amazon