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Make a Book Christmas Tree

As the holiday season nears, one Reddit user posted this inspiring picture of a Book Christmas Tree. The Book Christmas Tree has already earned thousands of views. It is a simple but powerful way to show your support for print books and bookstores in ...

Literary Halloween Costume Ideas

As Halloween nears, it’s time for our annual feature on literary costume ideas. The blogosphere was bursting with ideas last year, but we’d love to hear more suggestions–especially literary costumes for this GalleyCat editor’s o...

What Book Did Your Lover Give You?

The Books They Gave Me is a new Tumblr blog collecting memories of books shared by lovers. Here’s one story from the blog: “He, lovelorn literary loser, just like me—but better at even that than I was, for I was a mere apprentice—gave ...

What Is Steampunk?

The next time somebody asks you “What is steampunk?” just show them the trailer for the upcoming documentary, Vintage Tomorrows. (embedded above). The documentary already includes authors Cherie Priest and Cory Doctorow, so we look forward...

Hipster Writing Machine

Trying to write about hipsters but don’t speak the language? No problem. There is a new website that can help you generate hipster lingo automatically. Hipster Ipsum helps you create “Artisanal filler text for your site or project.” ...

Three Debut Novelists Score Movie Deals

Writers Veronica Roth, Marie Lu and Erin Morgenstern all landed movie deals for their debut novels. Roth released Divergent in May; Morgenstern’s book The Night Circus is due out in September and Lu’s title Legend will hit bookstores in lat...

John Green To Sign 150,000 Copies of New Book

In the video embedded above, YA writer John Green revealed the title for his new book (The Fault in Our Stars) and promised to sign every single one of the 150,000 books in the first print run. Even though the manuscript is currently unfinished and t...

Goodreads Partners with First Book to Fight Illiteracy

Goodreads has partnered with First Book, a charity group whose mission is to make sure children who reside in low-income communities are able to have access to books. Together, these two organizations will be fighting illiteracy using the Goodreads Bo...

Zynga Files for $1 Billion I.P.O.

The popular social gaming company Zynga has filed for a $1 billion I.P.O.. The company behind games like FarmVille and CityVille counted a $90.6 million profit last year in the filing. Here’s more about the I.P.O. from the NY Times: “The st...

Possible Pottermore Memos Leaked

Two confidential documents concerning J.K. Rowling‘s mysterious Pottermore website have surfaced. A memo was reportedly sent to the Times UK by mistake and it describes the site as “a sophisticated online game” involving a treasure h...

Jack Kerouac Joins T.S. Eliot on Top Grossing App List

Over at eBookNewser, we have been tracking the Top Grossing iPad apps in the books category for the past two months. So far, comic book apps and Bible apps tend to dominate the list, which isn’t a big surprise. Digital comic books benefit from th...

Dirk Nowitzki Stars in New Dallas Mavericks Book

Triumph Books has released Mavericks Stampede: Dirk Leads Dallas to the 2011 NBA Championship by Rob Mahoney. This book drops days after the Dallas Mavericks won the 2011 National Basketball Association finals. The eBook costs $9.99 and a print copy co...

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