Philip Roth Has a New Biographer; New E-Readers from Kobo
Today in books and publishing: the Portnoy's Complaint author will be profiled; lit-trolls run amok; Kobo announces new e-readers; a debate on bookselling economics.
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The Horace Mann School for the Deaf garnered thousands of Internet votes to win an online contest promising a Taylor Swift concert on campus—thousands of votes which were thrown out because the contest's sponsors didn't like that 4chan and Reddit were involved.
Today in books and publishing: the Portnoy's Complaint author will be profiled; lit-trolls run amok; Kobo announces new e-readers; a debate on bookselling economics.
Lots of people hated Niall Ferguson's "Hit the Road Barack" cover story for the August 27 Newsweek, but we learned on Friday it also sold a bundle, so we're getting ready for more front-page trolling from the weekly.
With its September issue, Wired is telling us to chill out, and not freak out about the end of the world, and we'd be happy to take their advice by keeping calm, carrying on, and all that good stuff if, well... You know, if they weren't somewhat wrong before.
The State Department's latest counterterrorism effort is apparently an Internet trolling (no, we're not kidding) initiative called Viral Peace. From whom should the government learn to troll?
A promotional campaign to send Miami rapper Pitbull to the town that could get the most Facebook "likes" for their local Walmart has been ruined, for the better, by two goons who started a campaign to send him to Alaska.
Just when it looked like Henry Blodget was heading toward redemption with his Facebook coverage, his latest Business Insider troll bait is so over the top he's lost whatever goodwill he might have accumulated, and then some.
It'd be a sad day for all of us if we took Naomi Schaefer Riley's recent exercise in trolling and race-baiting assertion that universities should eliminate their "irrelevant" Black Studies programs seriously. So we didn't.
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