 USA TODAY | Billy Wright's Comic Book Collection Fetches $3.5 Million Huffington Post JAMIE STENGLE 02/22/12 09:22 PM ET AP DALLAS — Billy Wright plunked down dime after dime for comic books while growing up in the late 1930s and early 1940s, caring for the collection he started around the age of 9 until his death more than half a ... Comic books net $3.5 million at auction Bulk of man's remarkable childhood comic book collection fetches $3.5 million ... Comic collection expected to fetch $2M at auction |
 New York Times (blog) | Amazon Pulls Thousands of E-Books in Dispute New York Times (blog) By DAVID STREITFELD | February 22, 2012, 5:37 pm Mark Lennihan/AP Amazon.com removed more than 4000 e-books from its site this week after it tried and failed to get them more cheaply, a muscle-flexing move that is likely to have significant ... Amazon yanks 5000 titles from Independent Publishers Group, a Chicago book ... E-book Amazon pulls 5000 Kindle books after distributor fails to pay more money |
Another Korea Wave: New Books in US Wall Street Journal (blog) But Korea is getting quite a bit of attention in the US in a different medium – books. Three important and substantively different books about the Korean peninsula are landing in American (and European, and some Asian) bookstores at nearly the same ... |
 Newsday | Books for the under-15 set: Justin Bieber, Stephen Colbert and Mark Kelly Baltimore Sun A flurry of new children's books is headed for the shelves, and the authors carry some very familiar names, including Stephen Colbert. A look at the future: -- Colbert's book, "I Am a Pole (And So Can You!)" is scheduled for a May 8 release, ... 'Colbert Report' delights Ann Patchett fans Stephen Colbert to release kids' book |
Duluth boy's love of books inspires book-giving holiday Duluth News Tribune Jack Broadmoore, 7, and his mother, Amy, both of Duluth, teamed up and introduced Book Giving Day to the world. (Photo by Chelsea E. Morgan) Jack Broadmoore, 7, of Duluth has dreamed up a unique way to share his love of reading with children around the ... |
Book Review: "Hilarity Ensues" by Tucker Max Minnesota Daily With books like “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell” and “Assholes Finish First” under his belt, he's the favorite author of fratty lads everywhere. He has fun and does what feels good — and he doesn't care about the damage he does to his liver or to the ... |
First Amendment crusader Barney Rosset dies San Jose Mercury News Rosset died at a Manhattan hospital Tuesday night, said Kelly Bowen, publicity manager for Algonquin Books, which is to publish Rosset's autobiography. Rosset had recently had heart surgery. "Barney was a great, great American publisher," said Morgan ... |
 Bloomberg | Soros Sees Merkel Shoving Europe Into Harsh 'Deflationary Spiral': Books Bloomberg Enlarge image "Financial Turmoil in Europe and the United States" "Financial Turmoil in Europe and the United States" Public Affairs Books via Bloomberg The cover jacket of "Financial Turmoil in Europe and the United States" by George Soros. Soros Sees Merkel Shoving Europe Into 'Deflationary Debt Trap' |
 The Daily Star | Quran burning: Were prisoners hiding extremist messages in books? Christian Science Monitor Prisoners might have used the books to pass secret messages, a spokesman says. By Anna Mulrine, Staff writer / February 22, 2012 Afghan antiriot policemen watch as smoke billows from a fuel tank supplying NATO troops after it was set on fire by ... Official: Books burned in Afghanistan extremist Burned Afghan books extremist: US official |
 New York Times (blog) | Kids, Books and a Five-Hankie Gem New York Times (blog) Some 150000 copies, including e-books, of “The Fault in Our Stars,” a novel by a hugely gifted writer named John Green, have been sold since it was published last month. Twice that many are in print. Those are big numbers in the beleaguered world of ... |
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