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Can’t Wait for Dan Brown’s Inferno? Kobo Has An Answer

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Kobo is offers readers an experiential contest based on three original ebooks tied-in to the release of Dan Brown’s soon-to-be-published Inferno.

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UK Comics Mag Tripwire Celebrates Its 21st Birthday in Style

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British comics and genre magazine Tripwire is celebrating its 21st anniversary with a limited edition book and series of special events in the UK.

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Ether for Authors: Tim O’Reilly Is No Amanda Palmer

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In this week’s web roundup Porter Anderson takes in the furor over the demise of O’Reilly’s TOC and inspiring speeches from last weekend’s Grub Street Muse and Marketplace conference.

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Would Someone Take Advantage of America’s Most Beloved Author?

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Author Harper Lee, now 87-years-old, is suing the son-in-law of her former literary agent after he allegedly duped her into signing over rights to her classic To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Book Marketing Q&A: Wiley’s Jeanenne Ray on Building Reader Communities

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Jeanenne Ray, Senior Marketing Manager at Wiley, will speak at the Reaching Readers conference about how publishers can build strong readers communities. Here is a sneak preview of her talk.

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O’Reilly Announces Closure of Tools of Change Conference and Blog

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O’Reilly Media will close down its popular digital publishing conference, Tools of Change, but Tim O’Reilly promises to continue innovating the publishing process.

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Book Marketing Q&A with Scholastic’s Social Media Director, Morgan Baden

Morgan Baden, Social Media and Internal Communications Director at Scholastic

Morgan Baden directs social media strategy at Scholastic and engages teen readers online. Here’s a sneak preview of what she’ll speak about at PP’s Reaching Readers conference in NYC.

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Ether for Authors: Take Me to Your Data

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Our weekly roundup takes in Cory Doctorow’s conversion to data evangelism, reaction to Patterson’s wake up publishing ads, BEA’s silly cupcake promo and more.

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Ether for Authors: The Establishment Snipes Back

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Porter Anderson follows the post-London Book Fair buzz covering self-publishers at the event, fights over the value of legacy publishers, literary agents, and more.

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Guess the Most Offensive Book of 2012? Nope, Not Fifty Shades of Grey

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The books series cited as most often subject to complaints in 2012, as determined by an American Library Association study, was Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants books.

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