View Post Digital Google Can Translate Your Handwriting By Jason Boog on Jul. 29, 2013 - 11:18 AM The next time you are reading a book or a sign with foreign words, you can let Google Translate help you. Someday, Google hopes to have a device that can translate your speech as well. AppNewser has all the details: Have you ever ...
View Post Videos Reza Aslan Hits No. 1 After Fox News Interview By Jason Boog on Jul. 29, 2013 - 3:42 AM Following a surreal interview on with Fox News religion correspondent Lauren Green, religious scholar and author Reza Aslan hit the No. 1 spot on Amazon with Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. We’ve embedd ...
View Post Bookselling Rick Riordan & Lee Child Have the Most Pre-Ordered Books By Jason Boog on Jul. 29, 2013 - 2:07 AM Amazon editors have released the company’s annual fall preview, highlighting the most pre-ordered books of the season. We’ve included the complete lists below. The House of Hades by Rick Riordan led the print pre-order ...
View Post Libraries | Videos Ms. Pac Man in the Library By Jason Boog on Jul. 29, 2013 - 12:23 AM Do video games have a place at the library? Chattanooga Public Library teen librarian Justin Hoenke installed a Ms. Pac-Man arcade machine in his library, building a sense of community play inside the library. Over at Medium, ...
View Post Resources My Favorite Breakup Book By Jason Boog on Jul. 26, 2013 - 5:07 PM What book did you read while coping with a breakup? During one particularly lonely breakup years ago, I read Herman Melville‘s Moby Dick in an unhinged reading marathon. No one will ever include this book on a list of br ...
Bookselling How Booksellers Might Be Able To Combat Showrooming By Jason Boog on Jul. 26, 2013 - 1:07 PM Booksellers and other retailers suffered from a 400 percent increase in “showrooming” this year according to a new report, as more customers use smartphones and other mobile devices to comparison shop. AppNewser has al ...
View Post Book Biz Jonas Jonasson To Publish New Book By Jason Boog on Jul. 26, 2013 - 12:42 PM Swedish author Jonas Jonasson has inked a book deal with HarperCollins’ Ecco imprint for his second novel, The Illiterate Who Could Count. Jonasson previously wrote the bestseller, The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The W ...
View Post Book Biz How Marisha Pessl Found Her Literary Agent By Jason Boog on Jul. 26, 2013 - 12:23 PM Elle Magazine ran a long profile of Special Topics in Calamity Physics author Marisha Pessl this month. Pessl has a new book called Night Film coming out on August 20th, and the profile explored how she landed an agent for her deb ...
View Post Book Biz Choose a Haiku To Send To Mars By Jason Boog on Jul. 26, 2013 - 11:23 AM You can help choose a haiku to fly to Mars in an unmanned spacecraft, part of NASA’s historic MAVEN mission. Follow this link to read and vote on your favorite haiku to send into space. We voted for this Douglas Adams-i ...
View Post Publishing | Reviews Twinned Universes & Canary: Coming Attractions By Maryann Yin on Jul. 26, 2013 - 7:23 AM Here are some handpicked titles from our Coming Attractions page. Want to include your book? Just read our Share Your New Book with GalleyCat Readers post for all the details. Twinned Universes by Sandra Ulbrich Almazan: ...