Is This the Device That Will Revolutionize Reading?
Nicholas Ciarelli is an assistant product manager at The Daily Beast.
Yesterday, Barnes and Noble unveiled its e-book reader, the Nook, but despite modern bells and whistles, it's one of the most low-technology concepts that may challenge the primacy of the mighty Kindle.
What's in a Name?
Author Lee Child talks about where he got the name for his hit manfiction hero Jack Reacher, who appears in his latest novel "Gone Tomorrow." Full interview here.
Fighting A 'Cosmic Battle'
Reza Aslan, author of 'How to Win a Cosmic War' says Jihadists are engaged in a war of the imagination, and explains why he thinks the Bush administration has also made the war on terror a battle t...
Is Amazon Really Anti-Gay?
Sara Nelson is a critic for The Daily Beast and the former editor in chief of Publishers Weekly. She is the author of the bestselling So Many Books, So Little Time.
Whether it was a "glitch" that de-listed gay-themed books from the rankings or the work of a hacker, Sara Nelson thinks Amazon has every right to decide what it wants to sell and how.
Do Book Awards Really Matter?
Sara Nelson is a critic for The Daily Beast and the former editor in chief of Publishers Weekly. She is the author of the bestselling So Many Books, So Little Time.
Is it better to get a Pulitzer or the Booker, and does a prize from Barnes & Noble mean more than a Nobel? Sara Nelson looks inside the winners' circle.
Who Says the Book Business Is Dead?
Peter Osnos is a senior fellow for media at The Century Foundation. Osnos is the founder and editor at large of PublicAffairs Books. He is vice chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review, a former publisher at Random House, and was a correspondent and editor at the Washington Post.
Now that the Kindle and other electronic readers are finally catching fire, publishing can start to rise from its ashes.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
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