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In an interview with Charlie Rose, Amazon (AMZN) founder and CEO Jeff Bezos all but confirmed the development of a Kindle smartphone. "Here’s one where… You know, we’re very reluctant to discuss our future roadmap," Bezos replied when questioned about...

How I love author parties!

According to what I read in The New York Times this morning, it looks like there was quite a splash of a party this past Monday night to celebrate Kurt Andersen’s new book, “True Believers” (unfortunately the book was given a less-than-stellar review by Janet Maslin elsewhere in the paper).

I’ll never forget my first author party when I was a young editor just starting out at Ballantine Books. Ok, since you asked, I’ll tell you about it.