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Can a funny-looking green and white gizmo with rabbit ears foment an e-book revolution in developing countries and maybe the United States as wel…

With Rupert Murdoch open to a mainly ad-supported Wall Street Journal, might some HarperCollins’ books eventually carry advertising?

The …

Norman Mailer and e-books–what an unlikely mix of words. The image I most associate with Mailer, who died this morning at 84, is neither the fe…

Best-selling suspense novelist Barry Eisler is a CIA alum trained in a small arms, interrogation and manipulation. Just the guy to fathom power s…

I bought a silver-colored Sony Reader at a local Borders last month and am enjoying an E Ink screen with higher contrast than the old model’s. Bu…

My sister is a teacher who’d faint if she had to deal with such e-book joys as Digital Rights Management and the Tower of eBabel.

Dorothy…

Here’s a challenge for The New Yorker. Can its contributors write up e-libraries without droning on about how we’ll always need paper books? Is e…

So when will “protected” e-books created with Adobe software be readable in, say, Mobipocket?
The Tower of e-Babel, all those …

Radiohead’s experiment with a tip jar bought in an estimated profit of some $10 million in a week—supposedly an average of $8 donated per downloa…

I just finished a marathon round with Christmas books. Not that I minded. I especially love this time of year for books. All my…

Every now and then I need a book to make me laugh out loud. You know, the kind that you tell your friends, who’ve also read it, the …

My ladies have been very busy reading this week and I am extremely grateful to them considering all the distractions during this holiday sea…

There is a lot of weirdness out there, but who thinks up these studies? Money is actually given to organizations who find answers to some o…

What a Sunday! Shoveled out 9 inches of snow (it’s so pretty, but what a pain in the butt) and watched the Green Bay Packers plow thro…

Another busy week here. Monday was news and kudos, Tuesday was giving books for Christmas, Wednesday had the WW ladie’s friends with book b…

Sex. Maybe you like to write about, like to read about, like to do it (no, not cyber-sex…the real stuff). But how much do you…

Well, the WW ladies have the day off, but the Friends are in the house. Today we have Gail with her very first blurb…well done Gail. And …

Tis the season for giving. I love to give books and I love to get books.

I remember my first Christmas away from home.&nbs…

So, here’s the news from my inbox this week…

Did you know that Harlequin sends out newsletters to it’s authors about every six months? I…

Well, it’s been a rough week, but with the weekend looming I only see blue skies and sunshine (in my mind…out my window I see snow, ice, wind a…

These days I often find myself saying “What the heck is wrong with people??” This whole Jennifer Love Hewitt fiasco has me in a t…

Thanks for all your well wishes yesterday. I’m feeling much better, although I still resemble Rudolph.

Hooray!! Loretta is back fr…

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You know how computer…

You know, I thought I got it out of my system by writing about the new Disney movie Enchanted on my MySpace blog, but I was wrong. It has b…

A big Beyond Her Book thank you to Margie Lawson for stopping by yesterday with her thought provoking Right brain/Left brain challenge and sticki…