Buy One Book, Get One Free
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.
With the Amazon Kindle capturing more of the reading market, is there a future for traditional books? Peter Osnos suggests that publishers start selling paper and digital books together, so readers can enjoy the best of both worlds.
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.
Majors of the Rich and Famous
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Natalie Portman studied psychology. Jeff Bezos loved computer science. And Rahm Emanuel was the big dancer on campus. VIEW OUR GALLERY of celebrity college grads-and some very successful dropouts.
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Bezos: The Devil on Books?
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos talks about the Kindle 2 e-book reader and how he isn't trying to kill the paperback, just make some improvements. Go to ABC News for full interview.
Hot Books for the New Kindle
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.
On Monday, Amazon introduced its new electronic reader. Sara Nelson shares the e-books she'd most like read. Plus: A review of the Kindle 2.
Meet the Kindle 2
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.
Amazon's new wireless reading device is sleeker, faster-and will even tell you a bedtime story.
Bible Lessons for Business
Eric Dezenhall co-founded the communications firm Dezenhall Resources, Ltd., and serves as its CEO. His first book, Nail 'em!: Confronting High-Profile Attacks on Celebrities and Business, pioneered techniques for understanding and defusing crises.
Steering out of this crisis requires the skills of both Moses and Aaron.
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.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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