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From the NYPL Live series a meeting with Mr. Pete Townshend: In conversation with Paul Holdengräber, one of rock-and-roll’s biggest icons...

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Hope and Change 2 - Barack Obama: It Could Have Been Worse www.thedailyshow.com ...

On Nov. 12, 1971, on the eve of Mariner 9 going into orbit at Mars, Bradbury took part in a symposium at Caltech with Arthur C. Clarke, jour...

The Chronicle reports on a case brought against UCLA for breaching copyright in using streaming video.  James Grimmelmann, an NY Law School ...

A life in writing: Robert Harris: 'I've written a piece of fiction that suddenly starts coming true around me. The markets are c...

On semi hiatus until January but I saw this via The Rejector :

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Don't Mess With Textbooks www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political ...

I was curious why visitors to PND were looking for a Penguin video - now here it is (hat tip to paidcontent): Link

Penguin CEO Makinson - Definition of the book itself is up for grabs and we're not sure yet what consumers are willing to pay for. We w...

Pretty good book video via @chapmanchapman and @harperstudio

Remember when McCain bailed on Letterman and how Letterman milked that for weeks. This is better. A lot better. What I found interesting ...

Remember that tasteless ad the McCain campaign ran denigrating Obama as a "celebrity?" Well, I think the celebrity just got the b...

Say hi to your mother...

BBC video from the London Book Fair. Here

A parody of the Wall Street Journal is to be published in celebration of tax day tomorrow. Apparently some of the copies have leaked in adva...

Frequent readers of the NYT will know of Mark Bittman who writes a weekly column on Thursdays named the Minimalist. Each column describes a ...

The New York Times (via Associated Press) has a short article on video promotions for books. It is becoming all the rage now. Here is the Mc...

New technology hits the monastery and the monks appear baffled. The trust worthy and reliable help desk support team arrive to sort it all o...

I used to work for Berlitz and they were a very conservative organization who relied on yellow pages and newspaper advertising to generate s...

It was banned books week this week (Sponsored by ALA). Here is a list of the most challenged books from 2005. No word yet on 2006 but I e...