Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Book News: E-Book Refund, Mitt's Rewrite : The New Yorker

Pope Benedict XVI has signed a book deal for the third volume in his ?Jesus of Nazareth? trilogy, which will focus on the Gospel accounts of Jesus? infancy and childhood.

A new book about women and the bible is being banned by one of the country?s largest Christian bookstore chains because the author, a prominent evangelical blogger, refused to remove the word ?vagina.?

Amazon is informing customers that, under the terms of the proposed settlement of the e-book pricing antitrust lawsuit, Hachette, Harper Collins, and Simon & Schuster have agreed to refund between thirty cents and a dollar thirty-two per digital book to customers.

?In the Rye,? the first adult novel by the young-adult author Mary O?Connell, will feature Holden Caulfield stepping ?out of the pages of ?The Catcher in the Rye? and into the life of a high school senior searching Manhattan for her missing American lit teacher.?

The Paris Review wonders what Mitt Romney?s R.N.C. speech would look like if it were rewritten by the three Jonathans (Lethem, Franzen, and Safran Foer).

Watch an animated short film based on Italo Calvino?s ?The Distance of the Moon.?

Source: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/10/book-news-e-book-refund-mitts-rewrite.html

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