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In the Kindle era, a bookstore hangs on
A long time ago, some poor writer took on the task of novelizing the screenplay of the Burt Reynolds-Dyan Cannon private eye movie "Shamus," filmed in a Hollywood age when leading men had chest hair and big mustaches instead of sallow vampire skin and...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Nazareth, Literature, Dyan Cannon, Small Businesses
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A little Latino bookstore in Palm Springs says adios
The last little Latino bookstore in downtown Palm Springs is in its last days. Until recently things were going pretty well for the owners, Luciano Ramirez, a retired teacher and school administrator, and his wife, Tonia.When they opened Latino Books...
Tags: Services and Shopping, Nora Roberts, Books and Magazines
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Echoes From The Past
The first black-and-white Zenith television set arrived at our Berlin area farm home in 1952 during my preschool years. In the early 1950s we were fortunate if we had two or three stations to choose from and along with Leave it to Beaver, Howdy...
Tags: North Fork, Dale Evans, Entertainment, Services and Shopping, News Media
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Booksellers' catch-22
If you've ever walked into a Barnes & Noble, you have no doubt noticed the new releases pyramid front and center. If a book is in the news or written by a celebrity author, you will find it in this display. I always give it a quick circle and often...Tags: Douglas Adams, Authors, Magnificent Mile, Chicago Tribune, Services and Shopping
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Winter book preview
Looking ahead to books in 2013 is a little like predicting the Los Angeles weather: sunny, pleasant, better than average. The fiction fields are fertile, the nonfiction skies clear and the young adult books are fresh like spring rain. We'll see new...
Tags: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (movie), Arts and Culture, Literature, The Getty, Science and Technology
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Penguin settles in e-book price fixing case
Penguin has settled with the Department of Justice in the e-book price-fixing case brought against Apple and five publishers this year. Three of the other publishers involved &38212; Hachette, Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins — have already agreed...Tags: Prices, European Union, Google+, Services and Shopping, Book
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Has the e-book bubble burst?
I like Nicholas Carr. His 2008 Atlantic cover story “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” (expanded two years later into “The Shallows,” a 2010 Pulitzer finalist) helped catalyze a key idea: the distracting nature of digital culture, which...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Services and Shopping, Customs and Tradition, Book, Books and Magazines
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'Fifty Shades' dominates publishing in 2012
AP National WriterNEW YORK (AP) — The story of 2012 in publishing was the story of "Fifty Shades of Grey," in more ways than one. E L James' erotic trilogy was easily the year's biggest hit, selling more than 35 million copies in the U.S. alone and topping...Tags: Apple iPad, Amazon Kindle, E-Commerce Industry, Penny Marshall, Michael Chabon
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First editions: A rare present
Never mind the Morlocks. For a book lover, the most chilling scene in the 1960 screen adaptation of "The Time Machine" is the one in which the Time Traveler is taken to the decrepit library of the Eloi race. "I can learn all I want about you from books,"...
Tags: Apple iPad, Holidays, Pulitzer Prize Awards, J.K. Rowling , Joseph Heller
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Giving the gift of literature
They're meaningful, beautiful, portable, and, by the standards of modern gift giving, appealingly inexpensive. They also ship and wrap easily, and allow me to put my money where my heart is: art, ideas and the written word. So why did I hesitate for so...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Arts and Culture, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Chicago Public Library, Amazon.com Inc.
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Joe Biden: Costco-shopper-in-chief
Vice President Joe Biden appeared at the grand opening of Washington, D.C.’s first Costco Thursday morning, meeting with co-founder Jim Sinegal and CEO Craig Jelinek and most importantly, searching for pies. Biden, who re-activated his Costco...Tags: Joe Biden, Fiscal Cliff, Barack Obama, Services and Shopping, Pies and Tarts
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A rare encounter
Tribune columnistYou are reading this and so I assume that you love books and that you will be attending next weekend's orgy of all things literary, aka Printers Row Lit Fest. It was founded in 1985 by the indomitable Betty Cerf Hill as a means to, as she said, "bring...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Services and Shopping, Book, Books and Magazines
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