INSTAPUNDIT has signed a book deal, according to Publishers Marketplace:

Glenn Reynolds’ AN ARMY OF DAVIDS: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths, to Joel Miller at Nelson Current, by Kate Lee at ICM (world).

Due at Amazon.com in March 2006.

This will be an important title to watch for book-lovers interested in seeing whether “pure” bloggers can cross-over to the bound format. INSTAPUNDIT’s telegraphic style may require some tweaking for the print format. And none of the “crossover” bloggers like Washingtonienne and Wonkette’s Ana Marie Cox have really scored a big hit in print yet.

My money’s on Reynolds. With him, it’s not just about attitude–he has something worthwhile to say.

INSTAPUNDIT has signed a book deal, according to Publishers Marketplace:

Glenn Reynolds’ AN ARMY OF DAVIDS: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths, to Joel Miller at Nelson Current, by Kate Lee at ICM (world).

Due at Amazon.com in March 2006.

This will be an important title to watch for book-lovers interested in seeing whether “pure” bloggers can cross-over to the bound format. INSTAPUNDIT’s telegraphic style may require some tweaking for the print format. And none of the “crossover” bloggers like Washingtonienne and Wonkette’s Ana Marie Cox have really scored a big hit in print yet.

My money’s on Reynolds. With him, it’s not just about attitude–he has something worthwhile to say.

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Posted by wfzimmerman to What’s New for Book-Lovers at 10/19/2005 03:32:00 PM

New York Daily News - Daily Dish & Gossip - Rush & Molloy: Eyes wide open: Biographer digging for info on Cruise:

Eyes wide open: Biographer digging for info on Cruise

A Tom Cruise bio by the author of books on Princess Diana, Madonna and Monica Lewinsky is bound to upset the defenders of his faith at the Church of Scientology.
Tom Cruise has a new biographer - even though he probably doesn’t want one.

Andrew Morton - who scaled the best-seller lists with books about Princess Diana, Madonna and Monica Lewinsky - is digging for fresh bits about the diminutive box-office Goliath.

A source at St. Martin’s Press, which published the Lewinsky and Madonna books, tells us it hopes to bring out the book next fall, but the house doesn’t seem eager to bugle the deal.

That could be because Morton, who enjoyed the full cooperation of Di and Monica, is not likely to get much from Cruise. In fact, Morton is probably bracing himself for interference from the actor’s protectors at the Church of Scientology. Last week at an L.A. restaurant, the former Daily Mail reporter was spotted debriefing private eye Paul Barresi and attorney Graham Berry, reports radaronline.com.

Baressi actually did Cruise a favor in 2002, when he helped put the kibosh on a story peddled by a porn actor who claimed he’d been intimate with Cruise.

But there are few people Scientologists loathe more than Berry, who represented a psychiatrist quoted in Time’s scorching 1991 Scientology story in a libel suit.

Berry wouldn’t discuss what he and Morton talked about, but told us that “Cruise can be compared to Charles Lindbergh and his support of Nazi Germany.”

Cruise’s sister and publicist, Lee Anne De Vette, didn’t return a call by deadline.

Recently, the church’s lawyers threatened to sue ScienTomogy.info, a site that pokes fun at Cruise and his faith, for copyright infringement. Since then, the site’s creator, New Zealander Gary Stollery, has posted a disclaimer on his Web page, explaining that the site is a joke. Still, he’s received mass E-mails, late-night cell-phone calls and even house visits from church members looking to “explain” the sect to him.

Bottom line: Tom’s a loon.

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Interesting in a way that the DA VINCI CODE brand is much stronger at the moment than the DAN BROWN brand.

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It will be interesting to see how this evolves over time as readers become aware of THE SOLOMON KEY.

Sodoku craze adds up to book sales - Yahoo! News:

n Britain alone, more than two million sudoku-related books have been sold since the Times newspaper first introduced the addictive puzzle to readers just last year.

At one point earlier this year, six of the country’s top 10 nonfiction bestsellers were sudoku books, and if publishers’ predictions are correct, it could happen again as shoppers stuff Christmas stockings with sudoku.

Gee, how hard can it be to come out with a Sudoku book?

The Times’ publisher, HarperCollins, still accounts for about 43 percent of British sudoku book sales despite fierce competition, including from rival newspapers The Independent, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph and others.

Amazon.com lists more than 100 sudoku titles on both its American and British sites and many rank in the top 500 sellers.

‘Style’ Gets New Elements - New York Times:

while “The Elements of Style” has never lacked fans or dutiful adherents, appreciation for this slim volume takes a turn toward the whimsical and even surreal this week, as the Penguin Press publishes the first illustrated edition, featuring artwork by Maira Kalman, and the young composer Nico Muhly offers a finely wrought “Elements of Style” song cycle, to be given its premiere tonight at 8 in a highly unusual, if oddly appropriate, concert setting: the Rose Main Reading Room of the New York Public Library.

In the new clothbound edition, Ms. Kalman’s whimsical paintings are sprinkled through the text, often responding to the wry or quirky examples the authors chose to enliven what might otherwise have been a dry discussion of grammatical rules. On the topic of pronoun cases, they offer: “Polly loves cake more than she loves me.” On the uses of the dash: “His first thought on getting out of bed - if he had any thought at all - was to get back in again.” Ms. Kalman had no shortage of material.

A great gift for a young book-lover, to set them on the right path.

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363 code da paperback vinci
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103 chapter code da summary vinci
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95 code da free vinci
94 code da story vinci
93 article code da vinci
88 code da debunking vinci
88 code da essay vinci
85 behind code da truth vinci
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83 code da true vinci
81 code da note vinci
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74 code da online read vinci
73 book code da report vinci
73 code da illustrated vinci
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63 book code da note vinci
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Interesting in a way that the DA VINCI CODE brand is much stronger at the moment than the DAN BROWN brand.

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Posted by wfzimmerman to The Solomon Key and Beyond: Dan Brown News at 10/19/2005 11:09:27 AM

Searches done in September 2005
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33 dan brown digital fortress code
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31 next for dan brown
30 angels demon dan brown review
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29 brown conspiración dan la
28 codigo da vinci dan brown
28 brown conspiracion dan de la
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27 angeles brown dan demonios en gratis pdf por y
27 anything by dan brown
27 anything by dan brown site myspace.com
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It will be interesting to see how this evolves over time as readers become aware of THE SOLOMON KEY.

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Posted by wfzimmerman to The Solomon Key and Beyond: Dan Brown News at 10/19/2005 11:07:37 AM

Defense Tech: Last Best Reminder:

Of all the varieties of incompetence in this, the Age of Incompetence, the most deadly involves the potential of nuclear terrorism. After years of foot dragging, Presidents Bush and Putin have finally agreed at summit meetings this year that it is the single most serious threat in the world today—far more likely than a nuclear exchange by superpowers. And yet they and their governments are not following through quickly enough to secure loose nukes at their source. At the pace we’re going, it will be 13 years—2018—before all of them are recovered and deactivated, by which time even the most sober analysts believe terrorists will likely have blown up and contaminated some city forever.

2018 is awfully specific. Nobody knows when the proliferated world will go critical.