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A Book of Literary Tattoos

Friday, October 1st, 2010

A Book of Literary Tattoos

You Gotta Really Love a Book . . . . . . to get a tattoo of a quote from it. So OK, the title has a different meaning for us Christians, but this book describes people who have literally taken their favorite words and put them on their flesh.

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Sweat from Tourists Putting Sistine Chapel at Risk

Friday, October 1st, 2010

Sweat from Tourists Putting Sistine Chapel at Risk

Who Knew Sweaty Tourists Were So Dangerous? With so many people traipsing through the Sistine Chapel every day, the paintings are suffering. What will the Sistine Chapel do to save these Renaissance masterpieces?

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Fiction Nearly Rivals Bible Purchases

Friday, October 1st, 2010

Fiction Nearly Rivals Bible Purchases

At Least Folks Keep on Buying . . . ECPA’s latest report gives some interesting statistics on trends out there in the book- and Bible-buying world.

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PDF vs. EPUB Comparison Explanation

Friday, October 1st, 2010

PDF vs. EPUB Comparison Explanation

I Thought I Knew That . . . Sometimes the alphabet soup of acronyms in publishing is confusing. Here’s an explanation of a couple of the ones we all think we know . . .

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Sotheby’s to sell rare Audubon “Birds of America”

Friday, October 1st, 2010

Sotheby’s to sell rare Audubon “Birds of America”

A Book Collector’s Dream Now here’s a rare book auction where we’d like to be a fly on the wall—because we wouldn’t want to accidentally raise our hands!

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A Seminal Novel Turns 50

Friday, October 1st, 2010

A Seminal Novel Turns 50

Tribute: To Kill a Mockingbird Her childhood friend, Truman Capote, appears in the book. Her friends believed in her writing dream and supported her for a year off to pursue her passion. In that year off, she produced a book that won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction and a movie that garnered three Academy Awards.

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