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Bookish news and publishing tidbits 5 October 2011

book news Bookish news and publishing tidbits 5 October 2011

Boomerang Books: Test our new book search tool and you could win a Sony Reader + $100 of eBooks bit.ly/n7T73x

How to use a semi-colon

What Borders Left Behind'http://n.pr/r0xGd2

What form is this thing going to be? Watch Cate Kennedy and Craig Sherborne talk poetry n prose at the Wheeler Centre'http://ow.ly/6MzYN

i09 reveals trailer'on.io9.com/puqiNQ'for upcoming dystopian book Variant!'bit.ly/nFjrHb

CNN Tries to Catch On with Hunger Games'and Fails Miserably'bit.ly/oysRdr

Why Human Filters are the Future of the Web'http://ow.ly/6Mczn

First B&N Contact: Dear Borders Customer-'goo.gl/muWvN

How Twitter will revolutionise academic research and teaching'jrho.de/q98giX

Terrific interview with David Guterson (author of Snow Falling on Cedars)'http://ow.ly/6KzZ8

10 banned books that may surprise you

T. S. Eliot's letters describe his life in literary London and his unfortunate marriage.http://j.mp/rarBti

Why American Novelists Don't Deserve the Nobel Prize'bit.ly/pI7xws

Read Up On It: A Book'bit.ly/p4h6mg

Is great science fiction required to drive the visions of scientists forward?'bit.ly/oDy1L9

Awesome post on editing from Cat Sparks:bit.ly/pXF0cQ

Percy Jackson author planning book on Norse gods BusinessWeek'goo.gl/pbJkw'(see our Percy Jackson reviews here)

37 Reasons to Hit the Bookstore:'bit.ly/oHcUCn

What to do with a PhD in English'chroni.cl/r8D72l

Building a digital library, & issues therein, explained for the non-librarian (from Yale U Daily News):'bit.ly/pGtN7s

booktopia'wants to know: Do all Romance novels written today contain one or more sex scenes?

 

Recently on Read in a Single Sitting:

Book giveaway: Cardanica: a steampunk nightmare by Dario Tonani'(open to all!)

A roundup of book giveaways 2 October 2011'(because we want you to win stuff)

Read my review of Dolci di Love'over at Australian Women Online

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