Michael Pollan

The ever-popular Publishers Lunch website has just released an entirely free e-book, Buzz Books 2013 Spring/Summer. It’s filled with 488 pages of pre-publication excerpts from 28 different titles that are due to be released during the upcoming spring/summer seasons. (A small number of the book’s sneak previews have very recently been published.) The e-book offers an [...]

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Last week, following a soft-launch the week prior, Random House marched out BookScout, a Facebook app designed to link readers with books they'll like but might not have discovered on their own.

We asked Amanda Close, Senior Vice President, Digital Marketplace Development at Random House, to take us through the steps of getting an app like BookScout into the world, and how it plans to hone it going forward.

Belgian Media Planning Shared Digital Content Passport (Paid Content) What I’d Like to See From Digital Booksellers in 2013 (Failure Ahoy!) What Didn’t Enter the Public Domain This Week That Should Have (Techdirt) Publishing Without Perishing (New York Times) Kindle Daily Deals: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl {and} three other choices

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