Prices are plunging in the E-Book world, leading Doug Aamoth to question: What’s the best bang for your book, when you stack the Kindle up against the Nook and the Ready Daily Edition? It’s a tough decision, but with prices this …
Only one more game remains in the 2010 World Cup, which means there’s no more room for excuses: Now is the time to catch up on the books that everyone’s talking about. We sat down with best-selling authors Gary Shteyngart, Alan …
With Uruguay and Germany set to take the field for the third place contest, our soccer-obsessed correspondents recall their favorite highlights of the 2010 World Cup. (via The World Cup Blog)
It’s become something of a weekly tradition: The FDIC moves in late Friday night to shut down and break up failing banks. Last night, it was four new failures, pushing the 2010 list of failures to 90. (via Bloomberg Businessweek)
“Borders is late, but not too late, because this is an emerging market. As a publisher, this is one more outlet for us.”
— JANE FRIEDMAN, chief executive of Open Road Integrated Media LLC, an e-book publisher, about the …
Initial reports are just starting to flow in about a significant, 5.9-magnitude (Update: later adjusted to 5.4) earthquake that rattled a wide area of southern California at the end of the Wednesday workday. (via LA Times)
One only needs to see the reaction shots to sense just how horrific the scene was Tuesday: A baseball fan plummeted 50 to 60 feet last night, falling from the upper deck of Rangers stadium as he reached for a foul ball.
“I’m not taking this as a joke. It’s my life. It’s my career … I take responsibility for my actions. I’ve tried to do the best I can.”
— LINDSAY LOHAN, speaking through tears to Judge Marsha Revel prior to being ordered to …
The embattled actress appeared Tuesday in a California courtroom, and was deemed to be in violation of her probation. She was ordered to serve 90 days in prison, followed by 90 days of in-patient treatment, after surrendering to …
The star of the new show Hot in Cleveland makes a creepy-impressive offer to keep free agent LeBron James at the Cleveland Cavaliers.
It was a sports photo made in paparazzo heaven – Leonardo DiCaprio and Mick Jagger, taking in some world cup soccer. Then Leo picked up the vuvuzela. (via Socialite Life)